Is it possible to win the lottery by buying additional tickets? A Scientist Explains Why This Strategy Doesn't Work Many of us have wished for a "lucky" card at least once, picked numbers based on our birthday, or believed that after a series of failures, luck would surely smile. Kazan mathematician Rustam Salimov talked about whether to trust intuition and how probability theory works in practice. More details on our tickets Do you participate in lotteries? - Yes / No -.