All D.C. Lottery games have a minimum age of 18. The board licenses games of chance that are conducted by DC-based non-profit organizations. D.C., Virginia...

Immigrant Visa program, also known as the green card lottery, is a United States government lottery program for receiving an immigrant visa followed by...

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States...

"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American...

Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold...

States, lotteries are run by 48 jurisdictions: 45 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lotteries are subject...

of Columbia Route 5 (DC 5), a part of state highway Maryland Route 5 from 1939 to 1949 DC-5, a game offered by the D.C. Lottery Defense Condition 5, a...

prohibiting sale of out-of-state lotteries could be enforced, notwithstanding the act of Congress authorizing the D.C. lottery. The Cohens appealed to the...

is a list of the largest jackpots, or prizes, awarded in various lotteries. All lottery winnings are subject to Federal taxation (automatically reported...

Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating...

Lottery fraud is any act committed to defraud a lottery game. A perpetrator attempts to win a jackpot prize through fraudulent means. The aim is to defraud...

The Locker room with Doc Walker and Kevin Sheehan. He also appears in D.C. Lottery and BMW of Sterling commercials. He previously worked for Westwood One...

Wreckx-n-Effect, and is currently used in many promotional advertisements for the D.C. Lottery. Maryland rock band Clutch has long used a bootleg version of the song...

The office lottery for the United States House of Representatives determines the order in which incoming representatives can choose rooms in the congressional...

selection, won the NBA draft lottery on May 22. The Bulls' winning of the lottery was the second-largest upset in NBA Draft Lottery history behind the Orlando...

more than $850,000 in 2005 from the D.C. Lottery after buying $20 worth of Powerball tickets at a Washington, D.C. convenience store. Unsuccessful nominations...

Washington, D.C., has major league sports teams, popular college sports teams, and a variety of other team and individual sports. The Washington metropolitan...

sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. In ancient Athenian democracy...

for four months because it had lost revenue from the rights to produce D.C. Lottery drawings. In 1996, the station stopped running pledge drives when they...

Postcode Lottery Group is a Dutch international social enterprise, 100% owned by a foundation. The group establishes and manages charitable lotteries worldwide...

The lottery paradox arises from Henry E. Kyburg Jr. considering a fair 1,000-ticket lottery that has exactly one winning ticket. If that much is known...

drafted first overall by the Portland Trail Blazers, who won the draft lottery. However, he missed the 2007–08 season due to microfracture surgery on...

the case, in which two men from Baltimore were convicted for selling D.C. lottery tickets in Virginia. Barbour unsuccessfully argued that the Supreme Court...

there is some argument about why so many species use it. George C. Williams used lottery tickets as an analogy in one explanation for the widespread use...

Lottery scheduling is a probabilistic scheduling algorithm for processes in an operating system. Processes are each assigned some number of lottery tickets...

The following is a list of lottery games in which five regular numbers are drawn from a larger set of numbers. The list includes the name, the number...

Jackson gained significant public attention for her short story "The Lottery", which presents the sinister underside of a bucolic American village....

Solar Lottery is a 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first published novel and contains many of the themes present...

Sanchez. c Cleveland acquired the draft rights to 44th pick Martynas Andriuškevičius from Orlando in exchange for a 2006 second-round draft pick. d Memphis...

Public Schools (DCPS) is the local public school system for Washington, D.C. It is distinct from the District of Columbia Public Charter Schools (DCPCS)...