(Something like) Those are actually real! My mother taught me that basic strategy for betting on a "horse race" carnival game with the similar design (but the

(Something like) Those are actually real! My mother taught me that basic strategy for betting on a "horse race" carnival game with the similar design (but the winner was chosen randomply via multiple rolls of a die that represented each "step" along a racetrack) She taught me to watch the bettors and bet on whichever horse had the least number of shares purchased. If the bets were semi-secret, and we had to engage people ("analysts"?) in conversation about their supposed bets, it would be even more like the real equities marker.