1. a game of chance in which people buy numbered tickets and prizes are given to those whose numbers are drawn by lot
2. a children’s game played with cards having pictures or numbers that are matched with those drawn at random

Examples

• She bought five lotto tickets for tonight’s drawing.
• The state lotto jackpot reached fifty million dollars.
• My grandmother always plays the same lotto numbers.
• We played lotto at the church fundraiser.
• The children enjoyed playing picture lotto during recess.
• He won twenty dollars in the weekly lotto.
• The lotto drawing is broadcast every Saturday evening.