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For a Dollar and a Dream

99% Invisible

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Random Number Picking Changed the Lottery Game

The advent of quick pick made it less likely that lottery prizes would roll over. Once there's random printing of tickets, a wider range of numbers is covered for every drawing. And then it also makes it like so that my dad will play because he's not going to like figure out how to fill out the lottery slip.

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