Start gaming equipment that randomly selects numbered balls and announce winning numbers and colors.

“Start gaming equipment that randomly selects numbered balls and announce winning numbers and colors.” is a supplemental task performed by Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 15th by importance (#8 most important). About 45% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Conduct amusement or gaming activities. in Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T4.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Conduct gambling tables or games, such as dice, roulette, cards, or keno, and ensure that game rules are followed. · importance 4.8
• Operate games in which players bet that a ball will come to rest in a particular slot on a rotating wheel, performing actions such as spinning the wheel and releasing the ball. · importance 4.8
• Exchange paper currency for playing chips or coins. · importance 4.7
• Compare the house hand with players' hands to determine the winner. · importance 4.7
• Open or close cash floats or game tables. · importance 4.6
• Pay off or move bets as established by game rules and procedures. · importance 4.5
• Collect bets in the form of cash or chips, verifying and recording amounts. · importance 4.5
• Check to ensure that all players have placed their bets before play begins. · importance 4.5
• Collect cards or tickets from players. · importance 4.3
• Inspect cards or equipment to be used in games to ensure they are in proper condition. · importance 4.3
• Compute and verify amounts won or lost, paying out winnings or referring patrons to workers, such as gaming cashiers, so that winnings can be collected. · importance 4.3
• Record the number of tickets cashed and the amount paid out after each race or event. · importance 4.1
• Answer questions about game rules or casino policies. · importance 4.1
• Prepare collection reports for submission to supervisors. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-8018,
  title  = {Start gaming equipment that randomly selects numbered balls and announce winning numbers and colors.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-8018}
}