A lowly lab assistant receives a message from his future self with the winning lottery numbers.
Tomorrow’s Lotto drawing is for forty-five million dollars. The winning numbers will be 17, 19, 30, 32, 42, and 51.

Variants

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  1. “How I Won the Lottery, Broke the Time Barrier (or is that Broke the Time Barrier, Won the Lottery), and Still Wound Up Broke” by Ian Randal Strock, in Analog, June 2000.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ian Randal Strock