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  2. Numbers game - Wikipedia

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    The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.

  3. Three-martini lunch - Wikipedia

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    The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include the implementation of "fitness for duty" programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use, [4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives [5] and an increase in the size of the martini.

  4. Massachusetts Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Players pick 5 numbers from the first field of 70 numbers and one mega ball from the second field of 25 numbers. The parimutuel jackpot starts at $20 million and grows from there until someone wins. There’s another way to play this game called “just the jackpot”. Players get two sets of numbers for $3 for two chances to win the first prize.

  5. Lunchtime Poll: Would you get behind a fan-made Facebook game?

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    Every once in a while, the world of social games throws a curve ball at us. In the wake of fan-favorite Restaurant City getting the ax by developer Playfish, a portion of the game's cult following ...

  6. Nim - Wikipedia

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    The game "21" is played as a misère game with any number of players who take turns saying a number. The first player says "1" and each player in turn increases the number by 1, 2, or 3, but may not exceed 21; the player forced to say "21" loses. This can be modeled as a subtraction game with a heap of 21 − n objects. The winning strategy for ...

  7. Lunchtime Poll: McDonalds Facebook game - would you play?

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    It's hard to turn on the TV or visit a news site without hearing about McDonald's this week. First, there's the big news that the Golden Arches is bringing back the McRib sandwich for a limited ...

  8. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The numerator equates to the number of ways to select the winning numbers multiplied by the number of ways to select the losing numbers. For a score of n (for example, if 3 choices match three of the 6 balls drawn, then n = 3), ( 6 n ) {\displaystyle {6 \choose n}} describes the odds of selecting n winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers.

  9. Lottery - Wikipedia

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    In the draw, seven numbers and one (previously three and then two) additional numbers are drawn; the line price is 1 euro. The profit categories were changed, for example, from the 2011 round 41. The main victory at that time was with 7 correct results and the smallest victory with three actual and one additional number, the number of which was ...