Is it really possible to come up with a formula to "un-randomize" random?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lottery_couple

Verlyn and Judith Adamson from Madison Wisconsin clam that Verlyn has come up with a formula to predict winning lottery numbers. If true, that means he figured out how to "un-randomize" random. That's really, really smart.

So how could this be true? If it is then this guy deserves a Nobel prize!

Answer 1

Give me a break. It seems pretty simple what is going on here. The guy and his wife for whatever reason bought 4 tickets with the exact same number for the lottery on the specified day (maybe they've played the same numbers for sometime??).  Who knows why but now it seems they are going to take a lucky event and try to turn it into even more by convincing the not so clever that they have a system to pick the correct lottery numbers. They will convince me when they pick next weeks winning numbers. My advice - Don't hold your breath!