Jerry’s Springer
“That’s when it hit him. Right there, in the numbers on the page, he noticed a flaw—a strange and surprising pattern written into the fundamental machinery of the game that revealed, much as his cereal boxes had done long ago, something that no one else knew. A loophole that would eventually make Jerry and Marge millionaires, spark an investigation by a Boston Globe Spotlight reporter, unleash a statewide political scandal and expose more than a few hypocrisies at the heart of America’s favorite form of legalized gambling.” The next time your kid tells you they hate math and they’ll never use it in real life anyway, read them this story. Jerry and Marge Go Large.