Bob Luehne knocks three times on his pulltabs before he cracks them open, always starting with the strip in the middle. Sometimes, he gets lucky.
“That’s a winner,” he exclaimed, after pulling a $250 ticket at the Sports Page in Bloomington. He stops in weekly for a beer and a hamburger, a chat with friends and a stack of pulltabs, piled 20-high on the table.
Pulltabs are Minnesota tradition, gambling with a hint of benevolence because the proceeds go to charity.
And the little paper tickets — and their electronic counterparts — sold at local restaurants and watering holes across the state, are worth a fortune.
