Tom bought a lottery ticket.

I don't want any lottery ticket!

It turns out that the value of buying a lottery ticket is not winning.

But certainly I see your point that there can be some utility to buying a lottery ticket other than winning.

But the story didn't end when police officers managed to talk him down. News broadcasts covered his continued insistence that he did not forge his ticket, along with the lottery center's claims that their rejection of the ticket was legitimate.

State lottery, señor?

And economists forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.

I won the lottery.

I won a lottery.

That same month, a lottery scandal threw the BMW brand into the limelight once again. Lottery officials in Shaanxi province rejected a winning ticket, calling it a fake and denying its bearer, a 17 year old security guard named Liu Liang, the grand prize of a 58,000 BMW and 120,000 yuan ( 14,510) in cash.

The police finally stepped in and, after a careful investigation, announced that they had found the true criminal Yang Yongming, a private businessman whom the local lottery administration had contracted to organize ticket sales. Yang had conspired with the government officials directing the lottery, who were arrested for malfeasance, to fraudulently obtain the top prizes.

The Law on Lottery Games

Murder's like a milliondollar lottery.

You lost the lottery, Schemer.

Axel, my ticket! Where's my ticket?

There's 10 tickets in this lottery.

Tom won 10,000 in the lottery.

Do you still buy lottery tickets?

No wonder she won a lottery.

The expected value of this lottery is two dollars this is a lottery in which you should invest your money.

Ticket?

The concert ticket costs more than the cinema ticket.

b. Sale of magazines and lottery tickets.

But first, we go to the ticket office. Ticket office!

My ticket?

Ticket, please.

Ticket, please.

No ticket?

No ticket.

One ticket.

Your ticket?

What ticket?

Ticket, sir.

Pawn ticket?

Ticket, mister?

Your ticket.

Steamship ticket.

Beat it. I ain't buying no lottery tickets.

He gave you a ticket? He didn't give you a ticket? What?

The ticket agent at Penn station sold him a ticket to Pittsburgh.

At a feast by lottery the victim was chosen.

Here's your ticket.

There's Ole's ticket!

Find the ticket?

His return ticket.