> Accepting the conceit that these are options, he's left
> out the most important part of of the contract, which is
> that at the end of his second term, Jacob was allowed all
> the lambs that were born spotted -- and gamed the contract
> (with the help of the lord) by putting some kind of magic
> wands in front of the ewes when they were mating which made
> their lambs come out spotted, so that he ended up with almost
> the entire output of yearlings rather than the small portion
> predicted by past odds.
No doubt this inspired Louis Winthorpe III.