In the mid-1980s, private operators used the winning results for the National Lottery to run their own numbers game, called tachiale, which drew in three million players. After the lottery was suspended, the operators brought in liuhetsai, another lottery, using numbers from the Hong Kong Horse Racing Association. It is estimated that NT $ 40-50 billion has been bet on liuhetsai in Taiwan.
一九八○年代中期，民間根據愛國獎券號碼發展出來的「大家樂」賭風捲進了三百萬人口，愛國獎券停辦後，組頭們又引進了香港賽馬協會的「六合彩」，估計全台投注的資金有四、五百億。