Re:Running an Underground Lottery in Detroit
by logfromblammo on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:52PM
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One of the numbers games in Kenosha used the Powerball multi-state lottery numbers as the source of randomness.
Each participant entered a bingo card of N numbers. Each regular number drawn in the regular Powerball results since the start of the game was marked as "hit". When all N of your numbers become "hit", you win. Then you meet a guy behind a bar at 3 AM, backed up by your beefiest brother-in-law, to receive a sack of cash, which was about 60% of what everyone put in at the start of the game.
The numbers guy tunes N to match game length to buy-in price and jackpot size, while also discouraging ties that would multiply the risk from the cash handoffs.
Each participant entered a bingo card of N numbers. Each regular number drawn in the regular Powerball results since the start of the game was marked as "hit". When all N of your numbers become "hit", you win. Then you meet a guy behind a bar at 3 AM, backed up by your beefiest brother-in-law, to receive a sack of cash, which was about 60% of what everyone put in at the start of the game.
The numbers guy tunes N to match game length to buy-in price and jackpot size, while also discouraging ties that would multiply the risk from the cash handoffs.