‘Jerry and Marge Go Large’: Retirees made town rich gaming the lottery
nypost.com“Jerry and Marge Go Large,” starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, which debuts on Paramount+ on Friday.Jerry, now a grandfather at 83, is the one who cracked the game, using his strong background in mathematics.
At one time, he’d worked a number-crunching role at Kellogg’s cereal headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan. He would go on to own a corner store with his wife Marge, 84, one which had a lottery machine in it for years.
When it came time to enter the golden years, Jerry told The Post he started spinning the adventure partly because of boredom.“It gave us something to do every six weeks or so that was completely different,” Jerry Selbee said. “Being retired, you can only do so much camping, picking rocks, which was a hobby of ours, and things like that.”Jerry realized that Winfall had a pretty significant loophole.
In Michigan, the game’s jackpot would “roll down” each week if no one won, expanding the prize winnings. This happened until it capped out at $5M.
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