1.  Contestants are grouped into three teams, and then each group draws numbered balls to determine in what order they will appear.

2.  It seemed he had barely spoken before the seven numbered balls remaining on the table suddenly disappeared.

3.  New York Lottery officials broke a zillion hearts with their little air-blown numbered balls late Saturday night.

4.  --Team members must wear plastic surgical gloves before touching the numbered balls.

5.  The Committee on House Administration assigned seniority for the nine new members by drawing numbered Ping-Pong balls, a nod to the Texas state lottery.

6.  He promptly returned the specially and secretly marked, individually numbered ball to The Man Of The Hour.

7.  In the past, each team drew a numbered ball for its qualifying position.

8.  Antic said that Clemente knew what numbered balls represented which club and that he had deliberately drawn the two to face each other.