- Now, what's the odds against picking the right number out of... from one to a thousand?
- Well, a thousand to one.
7 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:30:06 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Just pull them right out of the hat, huh?
- No, you just go to work. Quit playing cops and robbers. Stop knighting each other.
- I suppose you've got a good racket in mind? Well, name it.
- Sure, I've got one. Numbers.
- Now, what's the odds against picking the right number out of... from one to a thousand?
- That's it. Now, we take the last three numbers of the racetrack pay off every day.
- The suckers try to guess it.
- The payoff is 600 to one. That is if anybody picks the right number.
- A lot of people would try to pick that every day if one dollar would win them 600.
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