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Question 6 : Can I play anything besides individual N-spot tickets?

Oh, yes. There are combinations and way tickets.

A "combination" is a ticket that combines several different choices. For example you can mark, ohh, 3 numbers on the top half of a ticket and, say, 4 numbers on the bottom half of the same ticket. Suppose you want to play the top 3 numbers as a 3-spot, the bottom 4 numbers as a 4-spot and the whole ticket as a 7-spot. Now you can, if you want, mark 3 separate tickets and pay $1 each, and cash any winners individually. OR you can play a combination ticket, which is just a special way to combine those three tickets into one. Here's how: mark your 7 numbers and draw a thick line separating the 3 top numbers and the bottom 4. Then over on the right of the ticket you write: "3$"; below that "1/3" (shorthand for 1 3-spot); below that ("1/4", for 1 4-spot) and below that "1/7", for (you guessed it) 1 7-spot. Then below THAT you write "$1", meaning you are betting $1 on each of those combinations. This is actually 3 separate wagers and if you win you will be paid off as if you had submitted 3 separate tickets. It's just KENO shorthand.

You can get even more exotic. Say in addition to the 3- and 4-spots you want to play a 2-spot in the lower left. Now a simple horizontal line isn't enough to separate the groups of numbers you choose. What you would do is circle the groups of 2, 3 and 4 to clarify how you want to group your ticket. Then off to the right you explain how you are betting. Are you playing a 2-spot, 3-spot and 4-spot? How about the 5-spot, 6-spot and 7-spot that comes from combining the 2-, 3-, and 4-spots in various groupings? How about the 9-spot that comes from playing all 9 numbers at once? Once again, you indicate what you are playing by making notations on the right of the ticket. You don't have to play everything. You can play the 2-spot, 3-spot, 4-spot and 7-spot by marking your ticket with: "$4"; "1/2"; "1/3"; "1/4"; "1/7"; "$1". But beware: if your 2-spot and 4-spot come up, you'll get paid the $85 or so total for catching the 2-and 4-spot but you won't get paid for catching the 6-spot formed by combining them because you dind't play that option. You would have had to pay another $1 and designate "1/6" on your ticket.

If you mark a single spot and circle it, it is sometimes called a "king number" and is usually combined with other groups or even other king numbers. But it's basically a group-of-one.

Even more complicated are "way tickets" which are essentially combination tickets that involve a large number of uniform choices intertwined in all possible ways. A simple example involves picking, say, 5 sets of two numbers each. Maybe you choose 11-22 (mark and circle these two), 4-25 (mark and circle these two), 38-40 (mark and circle these), 64-65 (mark and circle these) and 76-77, also marked and circled.

Now what you want to play is every possible 6-spot that can be formed by combining the circled numbers. With 5 groups of two numbers, noting you need 3 groups of 2 to form 6 numbers, there are C(5,3) = 10 possible ways to form 6-spots out of those groups of two. So far you've got a ticket with 5 circles of 2 numbers each. To the right of the ticket you write: "$10";"10/6";"$1". That is, you are paying $10 for the ticket, playing 10 ways of 6 spots at $1 per way. For another dollar you could have also played the 10-spot that is the total collection of 10 numbers that you circled. That ticket would be marked "$11";"10/6"; "1/X";"$1". The "X" is KENO notation for "10" when it denotes the number of spots being played. (No, "V" is not used for "5").

Beyond complicated, into the realm of hairy, is the 190-way 8-spot ticket. Nearly every KENO brochure features this to entice players into what looks like it must be a sure thing. The player draws a horizontal line to divide the card into upper and lower halves. Then draw a vertical line between each column as well. This has the effect of dividing the card into 20 columns of 4 numbers each, with the intent of playing all possible ways of forming 8-spot tickets from pairs of columns of 4 numbers each. Since it takes two columns to form an 8-spot, and we have 20 columns, there are a total of C(20,2) = 190 ways to combine 2 columns, i.e., create 8-spots.

If you were to play this ticket at the $1 rate it would cost you $190 per game. You are welcome to make that wager, but the casinos usually allow you to bet less than the nominal minimum when you are playing way tickets. For example, many casinos will let you bet 25 cents per way on this type of ticket. At the 25-cent level you would write this up as:

(ticket with    $47.50
 lines drawn     190/8
all over it)      25c

Since you are playing 25 cents per way, any payoffs would be at one-fourth of the $1 payoff scale. When the numbers are drawn for this ticket you hope an entire column of 4 lights up, then it's just a matter of waiting to see how much you'll collect.

As you can see, way tickets can be both expensive and exciting. But like combination tickets they are really nothing more than KENO shorthand for a large number of individual tickets. Consequently they offer no financial advantage or disadvantage over regular tickets