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Lottery machine

Posted by Nicolae on October 6th, 2008 under Lottery Guide
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A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery.Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container.
In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine [...]

Petits-Chevaux

Posted by Nicolae on September 6th, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide, Rules, games
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Petits-Chevaux, French for “little horses”, is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors. The bystanders having staked their money [...]

Jueteng

Posted by Nicolae on September 5th, 2008 under Lottery Guide, Rules, games
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Jueteng (pronounced wet-teng) is an illegal numbers game played in the Philippines. Jueteng came from China and it means flower (jue) and bet (teng). Although illegal, it is a widely popular game with participation that crosses most, if not all social and economic boundaries, played by rich and poor alike. With [...]