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For a Dollar and a Dream

99% Invisible

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The Association of Board Games and the Lottery

There were two major precursors to what we now have as the state run lottery system. The first being illegal numbers games, which were ubiquitous in urban black communities and Latino gamblers by white working class gamblers. Part of the appeal of numbers games is that you can pick your own numbers,. And the real appeal is thatyou can play for as little as like a nickel.

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