PETALING JAYA: The 4D lottery operated by number forecast operators (NFOs) officially emerged in the late ‘60s when the government issued licences to two companies for weekly draws.
According to court evidence heard during a gambling trial in Singapore in 1956, it was said the number game evolved from a story of a schoolboy in Kedah who put his bicycle up for a raffle draw five years earlier.
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