Reminds me of a story from 20+ years ago (maybe a bit more come to think of it...) where a company was planning on buying literally every combination of ticket in order to win a huge rollover jackpot. I think they were stopped from doing this, but it goes to show how greedy people can be.
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear rhw
@@andromidius i thought before when there are markets with lottery stands offering a car and a lot of other prices ...if you count the whole winning money ..you could just buy all tickets and sell the prices ..
with how they're advertised as "buying dreams", there's an escapism aspect too, for people desperate enough that lottery is their only hope of moving up in the world which makes it more sickening
So sick, I hated hearing "win the holidays with Arizonas MEGA millions." At work all the time during Christmas time, hoping no one really fell for that.
Spiff, I cannot stress enough how much I love your channel. Your voice, your humour, your editing. Men each video is a master creation. Good job indeed my brithish friend.
Here's a HUGE tip for you guys; You can actually just take stuff from a store WITHOUT PAYING and the only downside is that you have to be a bit sneaky about it or else you'll have someone nag at you. It's an incredible trick and in long-term it can SAVE YOUR MONEY.
Honestly, this is more a Video Essay than an "this is perfectly balanced" video. And I really do love this. I wish more of these "people exploited stuff" videos, it was really entertaining
Thanks friend. We enjoy trying to show the world ways in which real world exploits exist and can be found. I mean we use methods like statistical advantage in video games too.
I forget the title of the book, but it was a non-fiction account of how a group managed to win at one of the video poker style games at multiple Vegas casinos by obtaining a scrapped (but still functional) machine, discovering a pattern to the randomization, and using that pattern to essentially predict when machines of that same type were going to pay out. They eventually got caught and blacklisted from the casinos, but only because they got too greedy.
As someone who works in a convenience store that sells lotto tickets, I have a deep hatred for lottery and I’m glad someone is talking about how it’s all a scam
Lotteries not being profitable to gamblers is a typical highschool math task. So, ideally everyone who passed highschool should know that. If they won't listen to their teachers, they won't listen to Spiff.
Well its massively unlikely for you to win as said in the video 130 odd million to 1 an theres more chance of me having a baby on the moon but i think its worth remembering that the lottery do alot of good with their money and help an awful lot of charities and community groups etc (infact they help every company, group or charity once only thats their rules) and for some people even though the odds are pathetic its just a dream that gives them hope for 1 day having a better life than one that they are deeply unhappy in at the moment. The lottery is big on responsible gambling and have limits of 500 a week which i know is still alot but considering in a bookies some people lose thousands in a day uno. An finally There entire motto is play small dream big, they are literally telling u to not spend alot and just dream big so they cant really be held responsible for those that wanna cheat the system an buy hundreds of tickets an fuck themselves over, The odds are clearly visible for all to see..
Working in a convenience store kills stone dead any thought of lotteries as a way to get rich. Watching swarms of retirees coming in and blowing their government pension cheques on break-opens, scratch tickets, and VLTs is soul crushing. The worst was this one woman who would come in and sit at the VLTs for HOURS, sometimes not even leaving when it was time to close up shop. I could just hear her feeding in $20 after $20, and the damn loss music playing again and again. One night, she actually hit the $500 jackpot. To get her to try and take her winnings and go home, I paid her out in $50s (which the machines couldn't accept). She just looked at me and said, "Dear, you know those are useless to me."
We had those at a nearby store for about a year before the pandemic. Stopped going there because I couldn't stand to see all the zombies waste their lives and fortunes on those machines. Not a single one of them looked like they had hope or light in their eyes nor did most of them look like they could afford to lose a 20. That was the one benefit to the pandemic here. They had to remove them to keep people from playing them and didn't have room to spread them out.
@@Jake-xe1wu The NB provincial government banned VLTs from convenience stores not long after the story above. Only casinos and places licensed to serve alcohol (mainly bars and pubs) could keep them. It hurt the owners badly because, as Spiff alluded to in the video, lotto sales are the main income stream for most mom-and-pop convenience stores. I felt bad for them, but was happy to see the machines get carted out the door.
While true. I also saw colleagues buy in 100% into it from their "observations". They were either insane, wanted to dupe the store/lottery by stealing/conning, or stupid... extremely stupid. As while they watched the grannies bankrupt themselves buying £100s worth of tickets/scratch cards throughout the month, with an actual/perfect pay-out rate of 30% their spending (so 70% down), my colleagues would try and buy "more" scratch cards to "break even". :/
Just waiting for Spiff to drop his inevitable “reality is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits” where he noclips out of this dimension and becomes an unethical, tea-drinking deity.
Every once in a while...Spiff releases a video that makes me think he's going to be arrested. So far, he's been fine. Let's just hope he doesn't stumble across some exploit that actually causes him to be arrested and/or assassinated so we can keep watching his wonderful videos.
There was a lottery game a few years back in Australia that was based on picking the first 4 numbers in a draw in the correct order (Lotto Strike). Once the jackpot exceeded about $5 million, it was possible to buy every single combination of four numbers for a price that was less than the jackpot, which would guarantee a win. There was a syndicate that exploited this for a while before the Lottery changed the rules to cap the jackpot at $2 million
@Quark Cool story broski, not sure what you're on about in regards to a gambling/lottery video. While I don't agree with all of your points, skepticism to make sure you're not being conned is important. Like how our protagonists, in this video, were skeptical of the idea of "you'll always lose against the lottery". They did the math to see in this very thin case, they could beat the odds.
@@echokon it's a bot, literally commented under every comment under this video, reported like 8 times (no time do all). Let's see how perfectly balanced UA-cam's reporting system is, I guess.
Always thought gambling was damn stupid, as early as when my parents took the family to Vegas. It was an educational experience, being a young teen watching grown ups throw their money away.
i experimented with poker in college, we played with cents just for fun, i would start with 1$ if i lost, i lost, if i won i would keep the 1$ , and kept playing until i lost all i got, which would happen more often than winning the table, it was addictive enough even without that chance of getting rich like people in vegas one time i got a royal straight and kept raising, because of course i would win, only for the other guy to have a better straight, that is when i stoped playing
@@devforfun5618 That's quite unlikely, maybe you were tricked by the one who shuffled the cards? A while ago I was messing around with my friends to the point I wasn't allowed to shuffle the cards anymore.
The fact that the lottery tickets only became moderately profitable after the returns were increased by a factor of 10 really sums up why I don't play the lottery.
@Quark you don't need to do this, I am also a Atheist and respect those who follow religion for their choices. If hope in a thing that doesn't exist lets someone be happy then let them believe, so long as they don't hurt any one its fine.
@Quark You're right, religion is toxic and bad for the world. What matters is having a personal and intimate relationship with God who sent Jesus to love us and keep us safe through eternity
The timing on this video and someone actually winning the Jackpot of the Euromillions (UK ticket holder) is impeccable. Had me thinking Spliff actually found an exploit in the national UK lotto lol.
Stefan Mendel is a mathematician who won the lottery 14 times, by just filling all the options, and wining millions (couldn't find the exact amount of money he earned, but he made huge amounts of profits). Because of him in Australia there's a law against filling all the options. He reached a new level of exploiting
Years ago I had three numbers inexplicably pop into my head whilst walking into town, once in town one of the first things I saw in a Woolworths window was a lottery stand, I'd not played the lottery for a while but in the all the times I had I'd been up on the transaction winning £80 on the very first UK draw and over a £100 the following week.. I decided it must mean something and bought 2 lines using the three numbers in each and made up the remaining three with random numbers, to my amazement the three numbers that I chose were the first to be called on lottery night (in the same order!), my £2 investment got me a £20 return. I'm a sceptic and put this down to a mixture of incredible coincidence, my subconscious being swayed by advertising but it still doesn't account for the fact that I never just randomly think of numbers, it baffles me to this day.
I think is is your best video. Period. I’ve been watching you for years and typically prefer your game exploit videos, but this one was genuinely brilliant. Excellent work, thanks for making it.
This isn't even the only time something like this has happened. There are stories from many different countries about lotteries that were beaten. I'd love to see you do more videos like this covering those other lottery exploiters as well!
One thing to remember is that his numbers were computer generated so he undoubtedly had a large amount of identical tickets which would reduce his chances of a jackpot - and the average number of tickets needed to get a jackpot is still way higher than the amount he ever bought.
@@williaml840 Also, buying every ticket guarantees you winning the lottery, it also guarantees you get paid less than you won, if your purchase is massively larger than others playing. As the house always skims it's profit/costs/taxes off the top, you have to balance your investment vs everyone else playing (including the house!).
@@dannydaw59 I think that's why they do a LLC or similar. Set it in an investment fund, pay less taxes, then "draw down" a wage or investment payout at lower tax rates over time.
I mean, physics is kinda all about getting around gravity and using it to your advantage. Not gravity specifically but forces in general. Sorry to say, but there's kind of an entire field of science dedicated to this.
Here’s the thing, random chance is not a factor in most casino games. They are programmed to lay specific payback scheduled. Usually it’s somewhere in the tune of 95% for slots and 70-75% for table games. The shuffler shooting out those cards can put them in any order it likes. Please keep that in mind.
It depends. The electronic games like slot machines are quite literally allowed to cheat. The casino leave nothing to chance there. As for card games like blackjack, they are slightly in favour of the house, unless you keep track of the cards. And while card counting is not illegal, and I believe they _are_ required to pay you any winnings even if "caught", they are allowed to ban you for the future. Which is how they turn a game of skill to a game of chance, and keep their winnings. Other games like Roulette are completely "fair" in that there is no cheating allowed. The house edge is the green 0 (and for American casinos the green double 0). There once was a group of people that studies the roulette tables at a casino for days and found statistically significant anomalies, and they manage to win a lot of money. After this, the roulette wheels are rotated regularly, so neither a player, not the house, can figure out how the wheel is unbalance (because it will still be slightly off balance).
I don't know what casino you go to but I have never heard any table game having lower than 90% rtp. Where I live the black jack has an rtp of 99.xx% usually the slot machines have a lower rtp than table games.
How would the shuffling machine know which hand it is giving to the dealer? if you open/close boxes just as the hand is about to dealt the outcome of the hand will change. It would require the machine to have a camera that can recognize how many boxes are in play. I used to work as a dealer btw and have wondered myself if the shuffling machines could be used to fix the game as they are unquestionably a lot more profitable for the casino than hand dealt game, but i just don't see how it could be done. The thing with the machines is that the pictures and aces are constantly going back in thus giving higher chance for the dealer to have a blackjack or for the punter to get a picture when taking a card on 12-16 and you can't count the cards either obviously, there's no good shoes or bad shoes as when you're playing a hand dealt game. Don't play side bets should go without saying, they are there to increase the house edge.
forgot to mention there is a wheel inside the machine with compartments that it slots the cards into then it spins round and deposits them seemingly randomly into front of the machine for the dealer to pull but the thing is it deposits about 10-15 cards together at a time and the order of those cards can't be changed. You could open up the machine and take out the wheel with the rest of the cards in and there is still those 10-15 cards there ready to be pulled, it can't change which card comes out. An experienced dealer can pull multiple cards per second, the mechanism of the machine can't deposit the cards that fast. But please don't go to a casino with any expectations of winning money, you will end up in a hole you'll never get out of.
" I wanted to be at the side of the law because if I become a lawless person there would be no one to stop me, yet here I am, a youtuber who exploits everything when I am bored. " -The Spiffing Britt
@rainbowpowered97 what can us, little people living under unquenchable greed of nations and companies do in these times? Yes, defending a peaceful narrative such as "live and let live" is aggreable but in the grand scope of things, USA and Europe profit from bloodshed of other countries and are ultimately against progression of the little countries, they are much more content keeping them down. And we can't change that. World is a huge cesspit of lies and deceit.
The funny thing is that "Luck of the Irish" is actually extremely good luck. Lol Also, the people who made the money during the American gold rush weren't the miners, it was the guy selling them shovels.
@Quark you sound like some edgy 13yr old. That kind of thinking is a double edged sword. Once atheism is enforced then what's to stop them from say imprisoning all (insert what ever race here) or hell maybe they flip that law and force everyone to be religious or be threatened with death. That's the issue with that thinking and logic because this kindof of bullshit goes on in the real world and never ends well. Hell look at the Nazis if you need a example. It started off as a great idea for Germany to get their country back in shape and it really did drastically help them but once you start enforcing beliefs with lethal force or emprisonment that all starts to turn sour. While im not a religious person by any means i do see the drastic help the churches offer the community's 9 times out of 10 compared to atheist who stick their nose up in the air. It's honestly funny
I like your little journalism foray here (even if it is just reporting a story that's already been reported). You (or your unpaid interns... it was the interns, wasn't it?) did a fantastic job of laying out all the aspects of this as best you could, and you even spent some of your own money to get into the mood for the story! I do so enjoy your video game exploit videos (you seem to genuinely have much more fun with those) but these types of videos are also very entertaining and quite informative. As always, keep up the fantastic work! Can't wait for the next one!
This would make a great movie. Man you're hilarious while also being intelligent. Just started watching your channel. And i noticed you play Rimworld and figured out some of the exploits for the AI! I watched a few yesterday and can't wait to try a few out myself. Thank you for being spiffy. May sausage fall down upon you endlessly
I spent about an hour and a half reading about binomial probability, and probability theory after watching this video, I loved these in high school, thanks! :D
There's been a few times where people looked at how lottery numbers were drawn and realized they weren't entirely random, and it was perfectly balanced so that buying tickets with "good" numbers had expected returns over 1.0
Big doubt. 6 out of 49 numbers have about 14 million combinations. Even if you look at the numbers solely you look at less than 1/8 of the possible numbers per lottery drawing. You don't roll a die 60 times and claim "OMG SOME NUMBERS HAVE A PROBABILITY >1/6!!!". No. It's just "i need to roll more often" But ppl love some big claims without sources.
@@renem.5852 not saying that the claim is true, but its absolutely possible - generally when the people setting up the lottery messed up in some way (like the cases in the video) by adding features to entice players into the game or to make it more interesting...without actually doing the math on whether it breaks the house edge but those tend to go out of business pretty fast as people discover the cases in which they are EV positive, so you can expect anything still operating to be EV negative
I remember subbing to this legend on my main account WAAAAYYY back when he had like 300-400k subs. I just realised this bloody blooming absolutely mental chad has almost 10 times the subs now. Never change my brother.
In the US at least, the lotto typically attempts to have a house edge at around 50%. Not small at all, by design. If you as a non-government actor create a casino, you have to have a small house edge. If you're the government running a lotto to fund schools, the house edge is expected to be quite high.
That was a really fun and interesting video! I liked how You were talking about the story of exploiting the lottery, You should do more videos like this.
I remember here in Arizona when Casinos started opening. They were all these tiny temporary structures, then 10 years later they are resorts with giant hotels, and casinos. Thats all the proof I need the house always wins.
Could you imagine how funny this video would have been if Spiff had actually won like 30 million euros out of nowhere? "I'm going to keep doing this because it is fun, but I will begin paying my interns... hahaha, just kidding."
Wont slag off yorkshire tea on this channel... but if you want the best tea you've ever had, try Krokos Kozanis Tea if its available in your country No association with me, just really unique and tasty teas
Love the real world videos! Thought you just did videos like "hey I found a glitch... Lol...." But this was amazing I laughed so hard at the edit of Jerry popping back up with his own company
WAIT I just saw a ad about a movie on paramount plus called Jerry and Marge Go Large and thought it reminded me of one of you videos, so I checked your videos and sure enough I found this! Definitely going to watch that movie in the near future lmao
And yet here you are... telling us about it... instead of being on your luxury yacht in the middle of the atlantic swiming in your extravigant imported tea pool, I feel so blessed.
There was a time when the uk lottery had a 1 in 42 million chance and the jackpot was higher than that meaning that if you bought every single combination of tickets you'd win more than you spent but that was after like 9 rollovers.
You might only get a share of the jackpot though. Obviously you'd have many other winning tickets too but I don't think it was guaranteed profit. The highest it ever went to in the UK was £66,070,646, shared by two winners.
*It Just Works* - Lottery Director Todd Howard
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ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR TODD HOWARD
yes the words of a true genius
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As someone once said: “The best way to become a millionaire by winning the lottery is to start off as a billionaire.”
100% accurate advice
Reminds me of a story from 20+ years ago (maybe a bit more come to think of it...) where a company was planning on buying literally every combination of ticket in order to win a huge rollover jackpot. I think they were stopped from doing this, but it goes to show how greedy people can be.
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear rhw
@@AxxLAfriku Yes (;
@@andromidius i thought before when there are markets with lottery stands offering a car and a lot of other prices ...if you count the whole winning money ..you could just buy all tickets and sell the prices ..
“Lotteries are a tax on people who can’t do math.”
That sentence has saved me a lot of money over the years.
I prefer the term stupid tax. Most stupid people won't even understand there's actual math involved, so the math angle never works. LOL
with how they're advertised as "buying dreams", there's an escapism aspect too, for people desperate enough that lottery is their only hope of moving up in the world
which makes it more sickening
So sick, I hated hearing "win the holidays with Arizonas MEGA millions." At work all the time during Christmas time, hoping no one really fell for that.
@@robertharvilla4881"I prefer the term self righteous tax as I know but make no effort to make any change - but GOSH I sure am vocal!"
They are a tax on the poor and the desperate. It is as predatory as credit cards.
Man if this guy ever becomes a supervillain we're all doomed.
"If"?!
he is a brit, he is already a villain
Always was
Oh it's already too late. You just haven't noticed yet.
*when
Spiff, I cannot stress enough how much I love your channel. Your voice, your humour, your editing. Men each video is a master creation. Good job indeed my brithish friend.
I love how he used the numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 for the example 😂
Spotted the lost fan :)
I've been using these numbers as a user name for the past 18 years and my immediate reaction was "that's ME wtf" until two seconds later "oh, right."
I use them when i play keno. Won more times than I've lost.
Mmm 😏 Shannon
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Here's a HUGE tip for you guys; You can actually just take stuff from a store WITHOUT PAYING and the only downside is that you have to be a bit sneaky about it or else you'll have someone nag at you. It's an incredible trick and in long-term it can SAVE YOUR MONEY.
*Sneak Level 100*
Everybody uses the barter system when you have a gun.
Or start with I live in California Origin story and just walk right out of the store cause no one will stop you
just put the bucket over their head. wont notice a thing
Too bad the quicksave punch load exploit doesn't work IRL
Honestly, this is more a Video Essay than an "this is perfectly balanced" video. And I really do love this. I wish more of these "people exploited stuff" videos, it was really entertaining
Thanks friend. We enjoy trying to show the world ways in which real world exploits exist and can be found. I mean we use methods like statistical advantage in video games too.
@@thespiffingbrit loved the ones about pizza hut and mc donalds too. We demand more
@@thespiffingbrit yes I love these videos.
I forget the title of the book, but it was a non-fiction account of how a group managed to win at one of the video poker style games at multiple Vegas casinos by obtaining a scrapped (but still functional) machine, discovering a pattern to the randomization, and using that pattern to essentially predict when machines of that same type were going to pay out. They eventually got caught and blacklisted from the casinos, but only because they got too greedy.
I get InternetHistoriana vibe from this, and i love it
Spiff, your ability to dance around the threshold of outright fraud never ceases to amaze. This is actually a pretty good public service video, tbh.
How do I know if this is a scam
This isn't anywhere close to fraud lmao
Thats his superpower
@@joycedukes6193 dream big play small
2:32 The absolutely wonderful detail that you used the "lost" numbers just brings tears of joy to my eyes xd
This man plays life like a video game.
As someone who works in a convenience store that sells lotto tickets, I have a deep hatred for lottery and I’m glad someone is talking about how it’s all a scam
Lotteries not being profitable to gamblers is a typical highschool math task. So, ideally everyone who passed highschool should know that. If they won't listen to their teachers, they won't listen to Spiff.
Well its massively unlikely for you to win as said in the video 130 odd million to 1 an theres more chance of me having a baby on the moon but i think its worth remembering that the lottery do alot of good with their money and help an awful lot of charities and community groups etc (infact they help every company, group or charity once only thats their rules) and for some people even though the odds are pathetic its just a dream that gives them hope for 1 day having a better life than one that they are deeply unhappy in at the moment. The lottery is big on responsible gambling and have limits of 500 a week which i know is still alot but considering in a bookies some people lose thousands in a day uno. An finally There entire motto is play small dream big, they are literally telling u to not spend alot and just dream big so they cant really be held responsible for those that wanna cheat the system an buy hundreds of tickets an fuck themselves over, The odds are clearly visible for all to see..
Its not a scam. Do you think the couple that won 150 million last week think it's a scam? Playing it every week isn't a good idea though.
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@@carlad2640 Do you think all the people who have gone into debt from gambling think it’s a scam?
Working in a convenience store kills stone dead any thought of lotteries as a way to get rich. Watching swarms of retirees coming in and blowing their government pension cheques on break-opens, scratch tickets, and VLTs is soul crushing. The worst was this one woman who would come in and sit at the VLTs for HOURS, sometimes not even leaving when it was time to close up shop. I could just hear her feeding in $20 after $20, and the damn loss music playing again and again. One night, she actually hit the $500 jackpot. To get her to try and take her winnings and go home, I paid her out in $50s (which the machines couldn't accept). She just looked at me and said, "Dear, you know those are useless to me."
We had those at a nearby store for about a year before the pandemic. Stopped going there because I couldn't stand to see all the zombies waste their lives and fortunes on those machines. Not a single one of them looked like they had hope or light in their eyes nor did most of them look like they could afford to lose a 20.
That was the one benefit to the pandemic here. They had to remove them to keep people from playing them and didn't have room to spread them out.
@@Jake-xe1wu The NB provincial government banned VLTs from convenience stores not long after the story above. Only casinos and places licensed to serve alcohol (mainly bars and pubs) could keep them. It hurt the owners badly because, as Spiff alluded to in the video, lotto sales are the main income stream for most mom-and-pop convenience stores. I felt bad for them, but was happy to see the machines get carted out the door.
@@barbaros99 there’s a store owner in nb that said people would wear diapers while playing as not to waste time getting up before this rule was made
@@oliverrahn7274 100% believe it.
While true. I also saw colleagues buy in 100% into it from their "observations". They were either insane, wanted to dupe the store/lottery by stealing/conning, or stupid... extremely stupid. As while they watched the grannies bankrupt themselves buying £100s worth of tickets/scratch cards throughout the month, with an actual/perfect pay-out rate of 30% their spending (so 70% down), my colleagues would try and buy "more" scratch cards to "break even". :/
I despise the lottery so I approve of this video.
Thats the spirit
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@@thespiffingbrit h
h!? There are more random letters now? What will we do when all keystrokes have new meanings?
@@Oblithian h
Jesus spiff have you considered doing more videos like this I think honestly story time with the spiff would be a great idea
yea
Story time with spiff!!!!!!!
I love how the example numbers are the unlucky numbers from the show LOST. great touch sir
Just waiting for Spiff to drop his inevitable “reality is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits” where he noclips out of this dimension and becomes an unethical, tea-drinking deity.
I don't know if you meant unethical or ethereal but both work.
@@xavmanisdabestest oh I meant unethical. I mean, I know you’ve seen his city development videos?
@Quark L+ratio+didn’t ask+I hate the antichrist
@@iconofthicc6086 he is spam, i have seen at least 20 copy/pastes of him spamming
Be careful, it might lead into the Backrooms
"EuroMillions jackpot of £109.9m won by UK ticket-holder."
Congrats Spiff.
Did he really win?
@@whitewolf.. Yes
@@whitewolf.. no
I don’t know who to believe
@@whitewolf.. yes
Honestly this might be your best video spiff. Bravo!
I’ve watched at least 10 of your videos and just realized #10 had a 5 seconds ad for a cup in it. Respect, Britt!
I now actually kind of want to see Spiff run for Prime Minister. Because as we know politics are perfectly balanced with no exploits.
In 2030: *The UN Security Council is perfectly balanced*
@@sirgoo9962 in 2040: *the Geneva convention is perfectly balanced*
@@scorpiondtc3812 In 2070: *The Continent of Asia is perfectly balanced*
George Soros: Hold my shekels
Unfortunately most polticial exploits are reliant on one thing - vast quantities of wealth.
I'm a maths teacher , and actually use this exact story when dealing with probability with senior classes.
Hope you also teach them how to get to the 246820 in 13983816 chance of getting 3 of the 6 numbers. :-B
I figured this out in 2nd grade lol
@@JimsyFlimsy sure you did, not.
I like your profile pic, i never followed footy, but absolutely loved Tony Lockket!!!!
Every once in a while...Spiff releases a video that makes me think he's going to be arrested. So far, he's been fine. Let's just hope he doesn't stumble across some exploit that actually causes him to be arrested and/or assassinated so we can keep watching his wonderful videos.
I’m sure the court system is perfectly balanced and he will get away with it
@@blahajenthusiast101 Fair enough.
"Police are a perfectly balanced system with no exploits."
Next up: "The petrol engine is a perfectly balanced machine..."
He'll find an exploit in the system to get him out of arrest better than a lawyer
Sir, it's a bit dangerous to buy that many lottery tickets.
Brian Cranston: I am the danger.
There was a lottery game a few years back in Australia that was based on picking the first 4 numbers in a draw in the correct order (Lotto Strike). Once the jackpot exceeded about $5 million, it was possible to buy every single combination of four numbers for a price that was less than the jackpot, which would guarantee a win. There was a syndicate that exploited this for a while before the Lottery changed the rules to cap the jackpot at $2 million
I'm very very happy Spiff talked about the idea of "The House Edge". It's very important to be aware of
@Quark Cool story broski, not sure what you're on about in regards to a gambling/lottery video. While I don't agree with all of your points, skepticism to make sure you're not being conned is important. Like how our protagonists, in this video, were skeptical of the idea of "you'll always lose against the lottery". They did the math to see in this very thin case, they could beat the odds.
@@echokon it's a bot, literally commented under every comment under this video, reported like 8 times (no time do all). Let's see how perfectly balanced UA-cam's reporting system is, I guess.
@@matt_9112 Odds are that you're right
@Quark Just stick to your "cool femboy facts" Clearly you're just angry because even you don't truly understand yourself, lmfao
@Quark free will is a myth, religion is a joke. We are all controlled by something greater-MEMES! The DNA of the soul!
Always thought gambling was damn stupid, as early as when my parents took the family to Vegas. It was an educational experience, being a young teen watching grown ups throw their money away.
i experimented with poker in college, we played with cents just for fun, i would start with 1$ if i lost, i lost, if i won i would keep the 1$ , and kept playing until i lost all i got, which would happen more often than winning the table, it was addictive enough even without that chance of getting rich like people in vegas
one time i got a royal straight and kept raising, because of course i would win, only for the other guy to have a better straight, that is when i stoped playing
Gamblers don't play for money, they play for that millisecond before the result is shown. That's why they play until they lose everything.
@@devforfun5618 a royal straight is the best straight you can have
@@MaksKCS but there are 4 suits, mine was hearts, his was spades and spades wins
@@devforfun5618 That's quite unlikely, maybe you were tricked by the one who shuffled the cards? A while ago I was messing around with my friends to the point I wasn't allowed to shuffle the cards anymore.
The fact that the lottery tickets only became moderately profitable after the returns were increased by a factor of 10 really sums up why I don't play the lottery.
@Quark you don't need to do this, I am also a Atheist and respect those who follow religion for their choices.
If hope in a thing that doesn't exist lets someone be happy then let them believe, so long as they don't hurt any one its fine.
@Quark what does this have to do with the comment?
@Quark why are you spaming this comment, this is like, the 8th one I saw on this video alone.
@Quark You're right, religion is toxic and bad for the world. What matters is having a personal and intimate relationship with God who sent Jesus to love us and keep us safe through eternity
@@flyguy0765 ikr i love having consensual intercourse with the holy spirit. Psst hes a secret masochist if you want to know.
Just Dream Harder should be the tagline of every MLM as well, lol.
Hey Spiff! Great video, reality is of course perfectly balanced.
Edit: Jerry evidently drinks Yorkshire tea gold, a man after Spiff's heart evidently.
I love Yorkshire Gold
@@SirGarthur Good man.
@Quark No life after death? But loads of people have died... And we're all still alive... Aren't we?
Oh noo.
@Quark k.
The timing on this video and someone actually winning the Jackpot of the Euromillions (UK ticket holder) is impeccable.
Had me thinking Spliff actually found an exploit in the national UK lotto lol.
Part 2?
Somebody wins it every five or six weeks ... it could be you!
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle this is horrible advice youre basically encouraging people to gamble
@@ruby-sv5vp You win today's 'Inability to spot the joke' cup ... that's the NL's slogan!
@@jamieparker4010u
Stefan Mendel is a mathematician who won the lottery 14 times, by just filling all the options, and wining millions (couldn't find the exact amount of money he earned, but he made huge amounts of profits). Because of him in Australia there's a law against filling all the options. He reached a new level of exploiting
The highest badge of honor, having a new rule made because of you.
@@nq3036"See, because of me they have a warning." - Homer Simpson
Hear me out, all the options accept 1...
Years ago I had three numbers inexplicably pop into my head whilst walking into town, once in town one of the first things I saw in a Woolworths window was a lottery stand, I'd not played the lottery for a while but in the all the times I had I'd been up on the transaction winning £80 on the very first UK draw and over a £100 the following week.. I decided it must mean something and bought 2 lines using the three numbers in each and made up the remaining three with random numbers, to my amazement the three numbers that I chose were the first to be called on lottery night (in the same order!), my £2 investment got me a £20 return.
I'm a sceptic and put this down to a mixture of incredible coincidence, my subconscious being swayed by advertising but it still doesn't account for the fact that I never just randomly think of numbers, it baffles me to this day.
2:31 Love it! Thank you for showing these exact numbers 😊
Lost
I think is is your best video. Period. I’ve been watching you for years and typically prefer your game exploit videos, but this one was genuinely brilliant. Excellent work, thanks for making it.
This isn't even the only time something like this has happened. There are stories from many different countries about lotteries that were beaten. I'd love to see you do more videos like this covering those other lottery exploiters as well!
@Quark touch grass
@@AmiiboDoctor he is spamming it just report him as spam
@Quark youre out of line but not wrong
The best part of the whole story is that despite regularly buying hundreds of thousands of tickets, Jerry still never won the jackpot.
One thing to remember is that his numbers were computer generated so he undoubtedly had a large amount of identical tickets which would reduce his chances of a jackpot - and the average number of tickets needed to get a jackpot is still way higher than the amount he ever bought.
@@williaml840 Also, buying every ticket guarantees you winning the lottery, it also guarantees you get paid less than you won, if your purchase is massively larger than others playing. As the house always skims it's profit/costs/taxes off the top, you have to balance your investment vs everyone else playing (including the house!).
Neat, that makes at least two PZ players who watch the brit
@@TechyBen That's right I didn't think about the taxes. Jerry might be getting back a 20% profit but taxes on the winnings are more than 20%.
@@dannydaw59 I think that's why they do a LLC or similar. Set it in an investment fund, pay less taxes, then "draw down" a wage or investment payout at lower tax rates over time.
Love that LOST reference at 2:32 ! 🔥
2:34 loving the Lost numbers recognized them instantly! Those will never leave my head :D
Spiff: I lost 40 pounds!
American viewers: Good job staying healthy! :)
Ah typical American joke, go do something else for once
@@Peterpiperspickledpeppers go touch grass
@@Peterpiperspickledpeppers Go get a sense of humour
@@jb_types_stuff Grow up
@@bigzuy wouldn't call that a sense of humor, most overused joke in the world.
At this point, Spiffing Brit has advanced so far that his next exploit is going to be exploiting gravity
Jumping?
That's plumbing, sewage, hydroelectric dams, irrigation IRL.
I mean, physics is kinda all about getting around gravity and using it to your advantage. Not gravity specifically but forces in general. Sorry to say, but there's kind of an entire field of science dedicated to this.
So, dams?
I love how at this point Spiff could probably just ditch UA-cam and just be a millionaire from exploiting everything if he really wanted to
Here’s the thing, random chance is not a factor in most casino games. They are programmed to lay specific payback scheduled. Usually it’s somewhere in the tune of 95% for slots and 70-75% for table games. The shuffler shooting out those cards can put them in any order it likes. Please keep that in mind.
It depends. The electronic games like slot machines are quite literally allowed to cheat. The casino leave nothing to chance there.
As for card games like blackjack, they are slightly in favour of the house, unless you keep track of the cards. And while card counting is not illegal, and I believe they _are_ required to pay you any winnings even if "caught", they are allowed to ban you for the future. Which is how they turn a game of skill to a game of chance, and keep their winnings.
Other games like Roulette are completely "fair" in that there is no cheating allowed. The house edge is the green 0 (and for American casinos the green double 0). There once was a group of people that studies the roulette tables at a casino for days and found statistically significant anomalies, and they manage to win a lot of money. After this, the roulette wheels are rotated regularly, so neither a player, not the house, can figure out how the wheel is unbalance (because it will still be slightly off balance).
I don't know what casino you go to but I have never heard any table game having lower than 90% rtp. Where I live the black jack has an rtp of 99.xx% usually the slot machines have a lower rtp than table games.
How would the shuffling machine know which hand it is giving to the dealer? if you open/close boxes just as the hand is about to dealt the outcome of the hand will change. It would require the machine to have a camera that can recognize how many boxes are in play. I used to work as a dealer btw and have wondered myself if the shuffling machines could be used to fix the game as they are unquestionably a lot more profitable for the casino than hand dealt game, but i just don't see how it could be done. The thing with the machines is that the pictures and aces are constantly going back in thus giving higher chance for the dealer to have a blackjack or for the punter to get a picture when taking a card on 12-16 and you can't count the cards either obviously, there's no good shoes or bad shoes as when you're playing a hand dealt game. Don't play side bets should go without saying, they are there to increase the house edge.
forgot to mention there is a wheel inside the machine with compartments that it slots the cards into then it spins round and deposits them seemingly randomly into front of the machine for the dealer to pull but the thing is it deposits about 10-15 cards together at a time and the order of those cards can't be changed. You could open up the machine and take out the wheel with the rest of the cards in and there is still those 10-15 cards there ready to be pulled, it can't change which card comes out. An experienced dealer can pull multiple cards per second, the mechanism of the machine can't deposit the cards that fast. But please don't go to a casino with any expectations of winning money, you will end up in a hole you'll never get out of.
Spiff this is next level. Happy for non game related content!!!
Really interesting and entertaining video, you really should make a lot more of those!
It's super fun watching people abusing the system IRL
@Quark and?
@Quark this is true but irrelevant
I had actually heard this story on my local radio several years ago, but Spiff's video is definately more in depth
" I wanted to be at the side of the law because if I become a lawless person there would be no one to stop me, yet here I am, a youtuber who exploits everything when I am bored. "
-The Spiffing Britt
@Quark what
@@Saturnit3 I think it might be bot. Same message plastered everywhere throughout the comments.
@rainbowpowered97 what can us, little people living under unquenchable greed of nations and companies do in these times? Yes, defending a peaceful narrative such as "live and let live" is aggreable but in the grand scope of things, USA and Europe profit from bloodshed of other countries and are ultimately against progression of the little countries, they are much more content keeping them down. And we can't change that. World is a huge cesspit of lies and deceit.
@@the_redpyro4906 bad internet connection doesn't make me a bot man you really broke my heart with that one
Love the LOST numbers reference, absolutely spiffing!!
i like how he's recording to make this a tax write-off
perfectly balanced indeed
The funny thing is that "Luck of the Irish" is actually extremely good luck. Lol
Also, the people who made the money during the American gold rush weren't the miners, it was the guy selling them shovels.
@Quark cope + seethe
During Brazil's own gold rush most banner become owners of massive mines as collateral from the loans they gave the pioneers
@Quark you sound like some edgy 13yr old. That kind of thinking is a double edged sword. Once atheism is enforced then what's to stop them from say imprisoning all (insert what ever race here) or hell maybe they flip that law and force everyone to be religious or be threatened with death. That's the issue with that thinking and logic because this kindof of bullshit goes on in the real world and never ends well. Hell look at the Nazis if you need a example. It started off as a great idea for Germany to get their country back in shape and it really did drastically help them but once you start enforcing beliefs with lethal force or emprisonment that all starts to turn sour. While im not a religious person by any means i do see the drastic help the churches offer the community's 9 times out of 10 compared to atheist who stick their nose up in the air. It's honestly funny
OK Wumao
@@goldenfox334 I think it's just a copy pasta, hes been replying it under like every comment, it's annoying as hell
I feel like we're only a month away from Prime Minister Spiff publishing "Democracy is a Perfectly Balanced Form of Government"
Some heroes are born, some are made, but only one is Spiffing
Omg! I love the extremely obscure reference to lost in the lottery numbers!!
As someone who is re-watching Lost after many years... I appreciate you
This video was amazing. A history lesson instead of a gaming video. I greatly appreciate this. I'd like if you did more of this style of video.
No
@@gupadre8255 yes
@@itsjustatemp-1642 no
Great Lost Reference. I just rewatched the series, so good.
I like your little journalism foray here (even if it is just reporting a story that's already been reported). You (or your unpaid interns... it was the interns, wasn't it?) did a fantastic job of laying out all the aspects of this as best you could, and you even spent some of your own money to get into the mood for the story! I do so enjoy your video game exploit videos (you seem to genuinely have much more fun with those) but these types of videos are also very entertaining and quite informative. As always, keep up the fantastic work! Can't wait for the next one!
This would make a great movie. Man you're hilarious while also being intelligent. Just started watching your channel. And i noticed you play Rimworld and figured out some of the exploits for the AI! I watched a few yesterday and can't wait to try a few out myself.
Thank you for being spiffy. May sausage fall down upon you endlessly
I don't believe in luck but I believe in my own stupidity
-the spiffing brit
I like this historical game-breaking content. It's like a mini-doc is Spiff style.
Spiff: "Jerry was being perfectly morally neutral"
Jerry: "When neutrally evil slips by, because as it should be, it's impossible to detect!"
I spent about an hour and a half reading about binomial probability, and probability theory after watching this video, I loved these in high school, thanks! :D
You’re one of the only Brit’s I like, and I love you.
I like the Lost reference. Nice one, Spiff ;)
I've been waiting for this for so long. Spiffing brit is finally going to break the system.
@Quark NERD
wow i wish i could be like jerry that legend deserves a medal
HELLO my fellow smoking chicken fish man. its good to another brother out here being perfectly balenced.
There's been a few times where people looked at how lottery numbers were drawn and realized they weren't entirely random, and it was perfectly balanced so that buying tickets with "good" numbers had expected returns over 1.0
Source?
@@WalnutZen was Ted talk on the history of a mathematician using the lottery to make money guaranteed before it was patched
@@WalnutZen it came to me in a dream
Big doubt.
6 out of 49 numbers have about 14 million combinations. Even if you look at the numbers solely you look at less than 1/8 of the possible numbers per lottery drawing.
You don't roll a die 60 times and claim "OMG SOME NUMBERS HAVE A PROBABILITY >1/6!!!". No.
It's just "i need to roll more often"
But ppl love some big claims without sources.
@@renem.5852 not saying that the claim is true, but its absolutely possible - generally when the people setting up the lottery messed up in some way (like the cases in the video) by adding features to entice players into the game or to make it more interesting...without actually doing the math on whether it breaks the house edge
but those tend to go out of business pretty fast as people discover the cases in which they are EV positive, so you can expect anything still operating to be EV negative
Even if someone breaks your heart, there is always someone willing to mend it.
The Spiffing Brit and the Internet historian are just on another level:)
I remember subbing to this legend on my main account WAAAAYYY back when he had like 300-400k subs. I just realised this bloody blooming absolutely mental chad has almost 10 times the subs now. Never change my brother.
Ah yes, the good ol "real life is perfectly balanced with no exploits"
Loved the IRL content man, your stuff is always very entertaining!
As a Michigander, hearing a British person say Michigan that much broke my brain
That and MASS O CHOO CHOO SETS
Your title is definitely NOT clickbait, and is perfectly balanced with no social exploits
In the US at least, the lotto typically attempts to have a house edge at around 50%. Not small at all, by design. If you as a non-government actor create a casino, you have to have a small house edge. If you're the government running a lotto to fund schools, the house edge is expected to be quite high.
Spiff: "i don't believe in luck"
Spiff literally 4 seconds later: "Now luckily..."
Imagine setting up a lottery and deciding you don't need to hire a statistician or calculate expected returns
I spend the last 2 weeks by making money on the stockmarket by exploiting it. so, yes. I liked this very much.
That was a really fun and interesting video! I liked how You were talking about the story of exploiting the lottery, You should do more videos like this.
i like how spiff is getting closer and closer to just comitting straight up crime
spiff 2030: how to get away with murder (and the police is helping)
I love these blogs about people exploiting various real systems that are perfectly balanced!
I remember here in Arizona when Casinos started opening. They were all these tiny temporary structures, then 10 years later they are resorts with giant hotels, and casinos. Thats all the proof I need the house always wins.
No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world.
Could you imagine how funny this video would have been if Spiff had actually won like 30 million euros out of nowhere? "I'm going to keep doing this because it is fun, but I will begin paying my interns... hahaha, just kidding."
An amazing English chap.
Because it’s not cheating until you post a video on a famous platform explaining how you did it!
My local gerocery store finally got my order of Yorkshire Tea. I've never had it but I'm doing this for you Spiff.
It's nice!
Wont slag off yorkshire tea on this channel... but if you want the best tea you've ever had, try Krokos Kozanis Tea if its available in your country
No association with me, just really unique and tasty teas
I live in Canada, I will go down to the shops and see if I can find it!
The rolldown gimmick was basically trickle down economics
The Spiffing Brit never disappoints. Great video.
I like the lost reference, pretty confident to use those cursed numbers in a for profit video.
It’s always nice to be so early that the number of Likes is bigger than the number of views - truly perfectly balanced
Love the real world videos! Thought you just did videos like "hey I found a glitch... Lol...." But this was amazing
I laughed so hard at the edit of Jerry popping back up with his own company
I love how despite that the odds remained the same on paper, Spiff said a different number each time. Is your tea laced?
WAIT I just saw a ad about a movie on paramount plus called Jerry and Marge Go Large and thought it reminded me of one of you videos, so I checked your videos and sure enough I found this! Definitely going to watch that movie in the near future lmao
And yet here you are... telling us about it... instead of being on your luxury yacht in the middle of the atlantic swiming in your extravigant imported tea pool, I feel so blessed.
*He's entering the real world.*
*I TOLD YOU FOOLS TO CONTAIN HIM!*
This reaffirms the value of understanding math.
Gotta love those Spiff's exploits xd
story time with spiff is the hangover cure idk I needed
He dreamt big and played small, can't believe how much he won... Good video. Subscribed.
There was a time when the uk lottery had a 1 in 42 million chance and the jackpot was higher than that meaning that if you bought every single combination of tickets you'd win more than you spent but that was after like 9 rollovers.
You might only get a share of the jackpot though. Obviously you'd have many other winning tickets too but I don't think it was guaranteed profit. The highest it ever went to in the UK was £66,070,646, shared by two winners.