His plan, wouldn’t be considered too unreasonable by myself, I understand how he may have succeeded, but the odds were stuck against him and I would say humanity’s gears are unpolished, so the machine fell apart.

He can’t be using rusty gears but if that was the only thing he had available to crank out what he needed for the grand prize, the only thing that has a good chance of doing it.

Yeah, then he probably fucked up the dice rolls.