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lottery

gambling which involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize
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lottery

Summary

lottery ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,618 views/month, #378 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • lottery is a type of game of chance[2].
  • lottery's Commons category is recorded as Lotteries[3].
  • lottery's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lotteries[4].
  • lottery's Commons gallery is recorded as Lottery[5].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[6].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[7].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • lottery's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • lottery's partially coincident with is recorded as tontine[12].
  • lottery's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

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Definition and Type

lottery is a type of game of chance[2].

Why It Matters

lottery ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,618 views/month, #378 of 77,819).[1] lottery has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] lottery is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → game of chance
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Partially coincident with → tontine
    Topic's main category → Category:Lotteries
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3444, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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