Definition of Numbers game

1. Noun. An illegal daily lottery.

Exact synonyms: Numbers, Numbers Pool, Numbers Racket
Generic synonyms: Drawing, 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

numberer
numberers
numberest
numbereth
numberful
numbering
numberings
numberless
numberlessly
numberlessness
numberlike
numberous
numberplate
numberplates
numbers
numbers game (current term)
numbers games
numbers juggling
numbers needed to harm
numbers pool
numbers racket
numberwork
numbest
numbfish
numbfishes
numbing
numbingly
numbles
numbly
numbness

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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