Buddhist Lottery

I found something pretty interesting in a newspaper the other day. It’s a pink sheet with a picture of Buddha and several lottery numbers on it.

Apparently it comes everyday in the paper (China Post, I think) and is placed there, either by Buddhist monks (unlikely) or probably by the lottery ticket companies who want to increase their fortunes.

Lotteries are pretty popular in Taiwan. There are Taiwan Lottery Stores (like the Powerball) pretty everywhere, like 7-11. You can also see people selling lottery tickets in random places, like outside the Post Office, outside Chunghwa Telecom, at the nightmarket, etc.

On this particular paper, you’ve got lottery numbers for every occasion. The Top left is the date (August 14, Year 97) in Taiwanese years. Below that you have 6 numbers if you should need them. The big 06 is for when you only need 1 number, etc. I asked Miss Expatriate, but even she wasn’t familiar enough with it to tell me what all the different numbers are for. At any rate, I thought it was pretty interesting since I’d been living here a year and never even seen one of these before.