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Review from previous edition 'the volume is ideally suited for readers with virtually no training in mathematics, but who are curious about how actually to assess the odds of things like winning a single game at lawn tennis or on which hands in poker one should raise ... This is a book to ponder, savour, study - and give to your mathematically illiterate friends' The Times Higher Education Supplement '(an) impressively comprehensive new book on the wonders of probability' The Sunday Telegraph

Who said you couldn't make money out of the lottery? The best way isn't to buy a ticket, but to write a book about probability. Haigh is the mathematician from the University of Sussex who has become something of a regular on news and chat programmes explaining why particular combinations of numbers come up more (or less) often than 'common sense' leads you to believe. The lottery is the jumping off point for his excellent accessible guide to the way probability applies to many games of chance. It may not help you to win, but it will certainly spell out why you keep on losing. (Kirkus UK)

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John Haigh is Reader in Statistics at the University of Sussex. His interest in probability was awakened by various card games, and he has made a particular study of lotteries, cards, and dice.

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