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Definition of Numbers game
1. Noun. An illegal daily lottery.
Definition of Numbers game
1. Noun. An illegal lottery in which the bettor attempts to pick a number of digits that will match those randomly drawn the following day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbers Game
Literary usage of Numbers game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis by Vincent Cable (1994)
"(b) Numbers Matter Where identity politics has taken hold, politicians play the
numbers game. Enoch Powell's obsession with immigrants' birth rates in ..."
2. The Handbook of the Navigator by Eric Pepin (2004)
"It is a numbers game. Consider another numbers game, the lottery. If you played
the lottery, do you think you would win this week? You would probably say no ..."
3. Natural Educationby Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner by Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner (1914)
"Tin soldiers in battle—Playing knights —Addition and subtraction with a Japanese
computer—A chart to learn odd and even numbers— Game of "Witch" to learn ..."
4. Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen (1999)
"Word Yahtzee Produced by ES Lowe, a Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, MA 01101.
Played like the popular numbers game, only with letters. ..."
5. Accounting for Pow/Mias from the Korean War and the Vietnam War: Hearing edited by Robert K. Dornan (1998)
"So when you run across the numbers game and the skeptics come up and say, "Oh,
that figure is different than this one", you see why. There are two sets. ..."
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