If you say that someone is playing thenumbers game, you think that they are concentrating on the aspects of something which can be expressed in statistics, usually in order to mislead people.
[disapproval]
It's a numbers game, and the odds favour the bad guys.
2. See also number
numbers game in British English
or numbers racket
noun
US
an illegal lottery in which money is wagered on a certain combination of digits appearing at the beginning of a series of numbers published in a newspaper, as in share prices or sports results
Often shortened to: numbers
Examples of 'numbers game' in a sentence
numbers game
If one side started playing the numbers game the other insisted on arguing in human terms.