This is the week of Quick Picks by the way -no thought involved for me – I have a ton of other things going on and choosing four different numbers seems to be the last thing I want to do.
Today when buying my quick pick for Mega Millions, I was behind a gentleman who was purchasing a huge amount of The Daily Game tickets.
The Daily Game is simple. You pick three numbers. 666. 357. 825. Any of the three. Essentially – if your number comes up. You win big – $500. If the three numbers comes up, but not in the order you chose them then you win ok – $80.
Anyway, this gentleman had about $40 tickets working. The tickets were coming and coming and coming. As they stopped, he look across the counter and called out nine more numbers. I knew then that I had to talk to them. His name is Andre. Andre spends up to $40 a day playing The Daily Game. Andre doesn’t look like someone who should spend $40 a day gambling. His gloves had holes in them and his clothes were not of disposable income value. But every day he spends a maximum of 40 American dollars.
So I had to ask… “What is your plan? How do you play?”
So he had to answer… “You have to play to beat them. They cheat. They hold off on the numbers. The state doesn’t use the money for education. They use it to fill their coffers.” He went on and on about the way the state cheats us and how he has caught them in their game. This man lives and dies by this game. He claims that he makes a profit off it. He claims that it is an investment for him. Then again he told me that for the last two years; the state has pulled ‘777’ as a gift to those who know that the Washington State Lottery is a cheating mess.
They haven’t. They pulled…
Dec-25-2008 5 3 4
Dec-25-2007 1 9 3
Andre was right about one thing. The Daily Game and “running numbers” is essentially the same game. The only difference is The Daily Game isn’t managed by a guy name Vinnie from the back of a dive bar.
