NUMBERSGAME

Numbers game

Numbers game, also known as a numbers racket, policy racket, Italian lottery, or nigger pool, is an illegal lottery played mostly in poor neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day. In recent years, the "number" would be the last three digits of "the handle" - the amount race track bettors placed on race day at a major racetrack - published in racing journals and major newspapers in New York. A gambler places a bet with a bookie at a tavern or other semi-private place that acts ...

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numbers game

Noun

  1. A lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly.
  2. The use of inappropriate statistics (numbers) to reflect a desired result (usually misleading).
  3. An activity that benefits from having many things to work with or on.


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