There was also the “death number.” 769 was if someone had just died. 967 was for a dream in which you had spoken to a dead person. Also popular were the flight numbers and death tolls from airliner crashes.
The Lockerbie Scotland death toll number was 259 for those killed on the plane. If you wished to add people who died on the ground after being hit with wreckage, you would then play 270. Many people played both numbers.

The lottery is a very mean thing for a government to do to its people. Of course doing mean things is consistent with Texas state government. The lottery should not be sold–It should be abolished.