With the Powerball ballooning to $650 million after Wednesday’s drawing, hopeful players have been asking: Is winning the lottery a matter of luck or something that science and artificial intelligence can predict?

Three students at the University of Salento in southern Italy say that science wins out.

They say they used AI to analyze patterns from past draws to predict future winning numbers. Their experimental approach resulted in a €43,000 jackpot in April, which now has people wondering if you can use science to win games of chance.

So did AI actually predict that outcome?

The students say using two years’ worth of lottery data and focusing on recurring number patterns rather than attempting to forecast random draws leads to a successful lottery win.

“Our model didn’t seek to p

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