Lootery

Lootery is a realm lottery for groups that already play together. One character, the clerk, keeps a shared token ledger. Everyone else spends those tokens on a server Powerball, modeled on thelott.com game, or on a draw inside the party, raid, dungeon, or delve they are in.

Server Powerball

The big draw uses the same ticket as Australian Powerball. A line is 7 different numbers from 1 to 35, plus one Powerball from 1 to 20. You can fill the balls yourself, take a Quick Pick, and put up to 8 lines on one slip. Each line costs tokens. The default is 5, and the clerk can change that for the next draw.

The clerk opens the draw, sets how long it stays open, and can close it early. When it closes, the clerk's client asks the server for a roll from 1 to 1,000,000. Every copy of the addon turns that roll into the same 7 numbers and the same Powerball, so the result is not a number the clerk typed in after seeing the tickets. If that server roll never arrives, the draw still finishes, and the result is labeled a host draw so people can see the difference.

Prizes follow the nine thelott.com divisions:

Forty-four percent of every line goes into the jackpot. The other eight divisions split the rest evenly. If nobody wins a division, that share rolls into the jackpot. Division 1 winners split the jackpot, and the house then refills it to the seed, 100 tokens by default, so the next draw still has something to chase. Your lines, the division you hit, and the tokens you were paid stay on the Results tab.

There is no real server for an addon, so "server-wide" means every player who is running Lootery and can hear the clerk. The clerk announces on the guild channel and on a custom channel named Lootery. Buys and payouts go by whisper to that clerk. One character should stay the clerk. Taking the ledger from someone else is a deliberate takeover, with /lootery clerk confirm, so two people do not both think they are holding the money.

Tokens

Tokens are the buy-in, kept the way a raid-points addon keeps DKP. The clerk's saved data is the book. Your window only shows the balance the clerk has confirmed.

A character receives a starter purse once. The default is 25 tokens. After that, tokens come from play while the clerk is in the group, because the clerk's client is the one that saw the kill:

• A dungeon boss pays 2.
• A raid boss, or a world boss while you are grouped, pays 5.
• Finishing a delve or scenario pays 4.
• Finishing a Mythic+ pays 6.

The same kill cannot pay twice in a short window, and there is a daily cap, 40 by default. The clerk can also grant or remove tokens by name from the Tokens tab, or with /lootery grant and /lootery take. Lottery wins are not part of the daily cap.

Token sales are not destroyed. Powerball money is paid back out through the divisions and the jackpot. A group draw can either give the pot to the winners or spend the entry fee so a seat has a real cost.

Draws inside the group

While you are in a party, raid, dungeon, or delve, the leader, an assistant, or the clerk can open a draw for the people who are actually there. A draw needs at least two people. The host can have three open at once. If the group ends, open draws are cancelled and unused entry tokens are refunded.

Item draw. Shift-click gear, a recipe, a currency, or any other item link into the box, or type what is being drawn. Set the token cost, how many tickets one person may buy, and how many winners are pulled. Extra tickets are extra chances. The winner is the person with the claim. Lootery then says so in group chat, including the roll, for example "Name won the claim on [Item] (server roll 4 of 12)." The addon cannot put the item in their bags or open a trade. The leader still hands it over.

Spot draw. This is for seats in the group, not for a piece of loot. You name the seats and how many of each you need. Presets fill the usual shapes: a dungeon (1 tank, 1 healer, 3 damage), a delve (5 adventurers), a 10-player raid (2 tanks, 3 healers, 5 damage), or a single custom seat you can rename to something like "Restoration Druid" or "Bench." People enter the seat they want. The draw fills each seat from its own entries and will not give one person two seats. The result is announced so the leader can invite or assign from it. Lootery cannot move characters between groups.

A draw can be free. If it costs tokens, the clerk has to be online, because the clerk escrows the cost until the host accepts the entry. If the entry is rejected, or the clerk never answers, the tokens come back. "Winner takes the token pot" is on by default for items and off for spots. Turn it on and the winners split every token that was spent to enter. Leave it off and those tokens are spent.

Group rolls use the same server roll the party can see in chat. One ticket in the pool means that person wins without a roll. Weighted tickets make one person occupy more than one slot in the pool, so buying three tickets really is three chances.

How you use it

/lootery or /ly opens the window. It has four tabs: Powerball, Group, Tokens, and Results. The addon compartment and the Lootery keybind do the same thing. /lootery options is where the line cost, starter purse, jackpot seed, draw length, earn amounts, daily cap, chat announcements, and window scale live. Draw-length 0 means the Powerball stays open until the clerk hits Draw now.

The first person who wants a realm draw clicks Become the clerk on the character that should hold the book, opens a draw, and leaves that character online through the close. Everyone else picks numbers and enters. In a group, the leader opens an item or spot draw, people enter, and the leader hits Draw. The result is in group chat and on the Results tab.