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| - Hey, you just won the lottery! Sounds pretty good, right? After all, you just got a few million dollars, and are, unless you stupidly spend it all, probably set for life. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? So next time you buy a lottery ticket, be sure to read the fine print. In a Town with a Dark Secret, expect this to overlap with A Fete Worse Than Death. Compare Russian Roulette. Examples of Lottery of Doom include:
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| - Hey, you just won the lottery! Sounds pretty good, right? After all, you just got a few million dollars, and are, unless you stupidly spend it all, probably set for life. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Well, you wouldn't want to, if it was one of these lotteries. The Lottery of Doom is a lottery where the prize is something really bad happening to the "winner," usually death. The reason for the Lottery of Doom varies, ranging from an attempt to keep the population down, appeasing a dragon, wrathful god or Monster of the Week, or just to be creepy. Sometimes the lottery players know that it's a Lottery of Doom, sometimes they don't. The lottery sometimes gets the perks of actually winning the lottery, but you aren't the able to enjoy it for very long, leading some characters to arrange some sort of inheritance thing. So next time you buy a lottery ticket, be sure to read the fine print. In a Town with a Dark Secret, expect this to overlap with A Fete Worse Than Death. Compare Russian Roulette. Examples of Lottery of Doom include:
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