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Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. It usually involves the organizer selling a large amount of numbered tickets and conducting draw to select the winning numbers. Lotteries are usually run to raise revenue in addition to taxes by government agencies.

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Lottery

Triple or triples

Gambling; Lottery

A three digit number consisting of the same number. Example; 111.

Hopper

Gambling; Lottery

A rotating container where the lottery balls labelled one through 49 are placed that continually mixes the balls.

Gopher 5

Gambling; Lottery

A Minnesota cash lotto game that lets players pick five numbers between 1 and 42, and win by matching three, four or five numbers. If the player matches all five numbers, he wins a jackpot that ...

Hot Lotto

Gambling; Lottery

Hot Lotto is Minnesota's jackpot game with jackpots starting at $1 million and continue to grow until someone wins. To play Hot Lotto, a player simply picks five numbers from 1 to 39. Next, the ...

Harvest Gold

Gambling; Lottery

A scratch ticket game that features two separate game plays. In Game 1, the player removes the scratch-off material to reveal six prize symbols. If three of the six prize symbols are identical, the ...

Overdrawn number

Gambling; Lottery

A digit that over a period of time is drawn more often than the norm. While some play these numbers because they are 'Hot', they can only reach normality by not being drawn.

Hot number

Gambling; Lottery

A digit that over a period of time is drawn more often than the norm. While some play these numbers because they are 'Hot', they can only reach normality by not being drawn.

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