The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. Product, product, product. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. PLAY TO WIN, PLAY TO WIN. Players purchase a handful of dominoes and every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into a winning combination, the population hooked on this rampant dream. For the winner, it ...
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The air of Manchester is alive with blurbvurts, automated advertisements chanting their slogans. Product, product, product. But the loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game. PLAY TO WIN, PLAY TO WIN. Players purchase a handful of dominoes and every Friday night the winning numbers are illuminated on the body of Lady Luck, the voluptuous figurehead of the game. Every Friday night, Manchester stills as the bones tumble into a winning combination, the population hooked on this rampant dream. For the winner, it is unimaginable riches, for the loser another week to wait for the bones to fall again. But there is only one real winner, The Company, who plays the city's fragile expectations with callous ease. But a group of mathematics students are looking at the odds, at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, and searching for the hidden mysteries behind the game. They watch the city at work and at dangerous play and slowly uncover the sinister realities behind the mania. The Company is devouring Manchester - it has the nymphomation, the secret knowledge underlying the game's mechanics, by which information can make love to itself, producing newer more powerful
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