A lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.

Roget 156: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc^†, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate etc. (necessity) 601; equal chance; lottery; tombola^†; toss up etc. 621; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes^†, sortes Virgilianae^†.    probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.    contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; situation (circumstance) 8.    statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming etc. 621.    ... show more

Dutch: tombola