lottery, n.Definitions

The Lottery has six balls and screws the poor.

The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.

The Lottery is a tax on stupidity.

The Lottery is the only game of chance where you are certain to lose your money.

The Lottery is a thing one pretty much has the same chance of winning whether one plays or not.

The Lottery is a system of voluntary taxation that extracts government revenue from the working poor whom otherwise are exempt, and the middle class whom are immune from understanding how thoroughly taxed they already are

The Lottery is a thing which, if you do the calculations, your chances of winning are identical whether you play or not.

The Lottery is rarely able to make one happy in the end. There is nothing in the world more reassuring than an unhappy lottery winner.