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What (who) is numbers game - definition

ILLEGAL LOTTERY

Numbers Game; Number Game; Policy game; Numbers racket; Cut numbers; Policy racket; Policy dealer; Cut number; Policy business; Policy playing; Policy shop; Policy rackets; Pea-shake house; Policy shops; Policy-shops; Pea shake; Policy wheel; Italian lottery; Nigger pool; Numbers runner; Number runner; Playing the numbers; Numbers running; Running numbers

numbers game

¦ noun

1. often derogatory the use or manipulation of statistics or figures.

2. (also numbers racket) N. Amer. a lottery based on the occurrence of unpredictable numbers in the results of races, a lottery, etc.

numbers game

1.

If you say that someone is playing the numbers game, you think that they are concentrating on the aspects of something which can be expressed in statistics, usually in order to mislead people.

Regrettably, he resorts to the familiar numbers game when he boasts that fewer than 300 state enterprises currently remain in the public sector.

N-SING [disapproval]

2.

see also number

Numbers game

The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian 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. For many years the "number" has been 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game

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Numbers game

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. For many years the "number" has been 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.

Gamblers place bets with a bookmaker ("bookie") at a tavern, bar, barber shop, social club, or any other semi-private place that acts as an illegal betting parlor. Runners carry the money and betting slips between the betting parlors and the headquarters, called a numbers bank.

Closely related is policy, known as the policy racket, or the policy game. The name "policy" is based on the similarity to cheap insurance, which is also a gamble on the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers game

Examples of use of numbers game

1. "The FISA court was never interested in statistics or playing the numbers game.

2. "I don‘t think you can regard this simply as a numbers game.

3. "We are not into the numbers game here lately," said the spokesman, Maj.

4. "This is not a simple numbers game of how many post office buildings are to close.

5. "We are not into the numbers game here lately," he said.