Filipinos are known to hold strong beliefs in chance, luck and fate, thus explaining their love for engaging in numbers game.

A widely popular illegal game of chance in the country is jueteng, played both by the rich and the poor, but mostly those in the bottom of the strata or unemployed, justifying their fixation as form of recreation, a pastime.

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