There are considerable differences between playing the lottery and gambling.

[shasan]

People gamble or play the lottery with the idea that there is a chance of getting rich quickly. There is also a high chance of losing your funds from both the lottery and gambling. Buying lottery tickets is a solitary activity where players hope to overcome the odds and change their lives. Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

It is correct that there is a high chance to loss funds both in gambling and/or lottery but there is too difference of these two. I think though there is a chance of being loser in both case but the chance to be more loser only on gambling as people usually do not invest too much money on lottery.

[sleepfirefly]

there are actually lotteries that offer smaller winning prizes hence why people end up wanting to bet on the lotteries that offer the big jackpot prizes. sometimes people also think that the money they spend isn’t that huge anyway so they end up betting daily or on regular basis

[Franctoshi]

People gamble or play the lottery with the idea that there is a chance of getting rich quickly. There is also a high chance of losing your funds from both the lottery and gambling. Buying lottery tickets is a solitary activity where players hope to overcome the odds and change their lives. Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

LOL, this is just like the life-changing win that keeps people hooked, despite them knowing the very possibility of losing. You know the psychology that's behind this? is that of someone that is getting a small win with a lottery ticket which keeps people coming back to play, therefore wiring their brains to keep chasing that next win, no matter how small that it's.

From my perspective, there's no much difference

[Wakate]

Well, it gives hope to those who cling to a jackpot. In the past, I thought it was not wrong, but whenever I remember my grandfather, who doesn't miss a day of betting for the national lottery, I always want to compute how much money he wasted, and I do believe it's a lot.
It's wrong if you calculate it in the long run. That money could've bought a car or made a kid go to college and finish it. Years of betting in the lottery and nothing was won. Some wins will only pay for the last betting ticket, but that's it. No jackpot or anything.

The idea where you express how much your grandfather must have lost to lottery is what most of these newbies need to know so that they can understand that before they started playing lottery, someone else have been doing that for years without any positive outcome. Lottery is a change of luck and if the number of participants are large, the chances of you getting lucky will be very low.

[Pandu Geddon]

People gamble or play the lottery with the idea that there is a chance of getting rich quickly. There is also a high chance of losing your funds from both the lottery and gambling. Buying lottery tickets is a solitary activity where players hope to overcome the odds and change their lives. Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

So, do you mean similarity or difference? 
A lottery is a type of gambling; it is not something different. We buy lottery tickets for luck, the money we use to buy those tickets is a bet. The same goes for other types of gambling in casino games or sports betting. 
A jackpot is a campaign to attract gamblers. I suppose all gambling does that. Besides, there are small winnings given to entertain gamblers to increase the desire to get the jackpot.

[348Judah]

People gamble or play the lottery with the idea that there is a chance of getting rich quickly.

Maybe we should apply the same for gambling also, and not just the lottery alone, because people are eager to have a winning opportunity in gambling, regardless of being a lottery attempt or casino gambling, all they want is that closeness to the winning opportunity.

There is also a high chance of losing your funds from both the lottery and gambling. Buying lottery tickets is a solitary activity where players hope to overcome the odds and change their lives.

Lottery is seen as a better chance to win a jackpot by many, because of the amount they believe they stand to get from such if they are lucky enough to win.

Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

Maybe we can put it in this way, that some lotteries can be attempted for free, while others may require money for us to use them.

[aioc]

Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

I'm a lottery bettor, and that's exactly why I kept betting in a lottery where I experienced winning 2nd and 3rd prize, and that's a motivator for you to keep betting.

The lottery company knows that if you almost hit the jackpot, you will keep betting, all form of gambling offers consolation to keep you focused on the top prize.

Gambling operators understand that to keep gambling players, they let them win from time to time or offer a consolation prize or bonuses.

[Dunamisx]

Playing lottery is far different from gambling, when we play lottery, we stand the chance of taking lesser risk to win something much, even though the chances for winning may be small, but we can still be positioned in the best way of hitting up the desired targets, while gambling is mostly for entertainment by seeing that gamblers play the game of their choice and stake their money for the chances of winning or losing it.

[Findingnemo]

With lottery, the incentive to keep playing is less, they might win a few hundred dollars if not a million dollars, depending on the number of combinations, but it is going to be like a few hundred people who get the rewards, while there are millions of players who bought the ticket.

While in casino games be it slots, dice, plinko the chances of winning is more often even if not a life changing money so that is the key difference between casino gambling and buying lottery tickets.

[Floxynice]

I am never going to see the lottery the same way I see other gambling games like slots or even sports betting. I actually think that the lottery is relatively safer compared to others. Even though lotteries are highly unpredictable, it is still very rare to get addicted to just lottery because when you buy a ticket and play, you will have to wait for the result to be announced (the reward isn't instant). Gamblers get addicted because of the instant reward systems and the fun they get from actively engaging in the games. To me, lottery is in its own league.

[Frankolala]

As long as money to be won is involved, the hope of winning motivates you to continue playing. Lottery is boring to me because I don't see any fun in it apart from being eager to scratch the ticket and see the numbers you gat. Gambling has varieties of games that you can gamble with and try your luck. I enjoy gambling than buying lottery tickets.

[Bluedrem]

I think gambling is more risky than lottery. When people gamble, there is a risk of addiction, but if people spend money to buy lottery tickets, then the risk of addiction to lottery is less. But there is a chance of getting a large amount of money from lottery if the lottery is really effective. But whether you call it gambling or lottery, your win or loss depends on luck. If you are lucky, then you will win in lottery as well as gambler. Yes, I am talking about my case. I have bought many small lottery tickets in my life and have won many times but my winning record in gambling is very bad.

[Antotena]

People gamble or play the lottery with the idea that there is a chance of getting rich quickly. There is also a high chance of losing your funds from both the lottery and gambling. Buying lottery tickets is a solitary activity where players hope to overcome the odds and change their lives. Another similarity is that most lottery tickets do not win money but there are some that can win $2-5. So players get excited and think they have a real chance of winning the jackpot. This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

I don't know may be where I'm coming from is what I see but I have seen more of sport gamblers that are more richer and wealthy through gambling than casino players that gamble on lottery tickets. We don't have much of those activities, you rarely see people win jackpot with it and sometimes people accused the physical casino of ragebait people to gamble and after all the spend, one random person ended up winning the money, the process isn't transparent to me.

Sport gambling might not give you the money you want immediately but if you have patience, invested your time in gambling, you are going to make more than you would have invested in sport gambling. Even here, we have many gamblers that are wealthy through gambling and when you check their activities, they are not the casual people that play lottery and jackpot, it's sport betting, they spend a lot of time to analyze what they can control.

[coinlary]

Lottery is not different  from gambling,  it's  a form of gambling  on it own.

The only difference with lottery is that out of  Millions  of people playing every single day, the list of people that have won something tangible  over theses years is  quite small, talk more list of people that have won a life changing money.

Life changing money luck is always hard anyway but in lottery it's even way harder. What you can win still depends on your region and the type of lottery you are playing.

[coin-investor]

...This experience is similar to winning a few credits on a slot machine. In both cases there is an incentive to keep playing.

They have to keep dopamine flowing; otherwise, cash flow will stop. They need to offer bonuses and giveaways and be competitive, too.

Both the lottery and the casino cannot remain profitable if they cannot demonstrate that there are winners on their platforms.

The biggest attractions are not the bonuses and giveaways, not the features, but the winners. You keep your players' hopes alive when they see gamblers win huge sums of money.

[Mhizlove]

Another thing is that both gambling and lottery they get to your emotions more than your reasoning or understanding, when time and money is being invested is will be hard to just let go or give up just Iike that because it be like if you stop now you might or will lose a bigger win so instead of stopping just go after what you're feeling and thatbobsession will turn a little play into on serious problem with you even noticing it or realising which is very bad

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

As for me, I do believe it's just similar at a high degree, someone who buys a lottery ticket is day dreaming to immediately win a huge amount like $200 million, while someone playing a RGN game is also playing and hoping that they can just hit the highest multiplayer so that they will earn a huge amount that they can use to change their life. So, it's same because these set of people wants to win and they have hope to win a huge amount of money from their wagering.

[iv4n]

There are considerable differences between playing the lottery and gambling.

There are considerable differences between gambling games... but in the end, it's all gambling. There's a big choice of games, and I guess there's something for everyone... but not everything is for the same kind of player.

I know people who play the lottery for years, and I am not that type... I am more into some other games. So it's all about the taste, what someone prefers, and what someone enjoys most.

[Jubilee58]

Lottery and gambling are closely related as both involves certain level of work to gain your winning. In playing lottery games , their is no skill involved to decide the outcome of your prediction. Which means, it is practically based on luck. On the other hand, as a gambler, you win based on luck but skill has .more important role to play.
Personally, am not very good at playing lottery, I gamble mostly on sports and football in particular. There, you can make your own decision, and select from the range of games you are Interested in. When it comes to recognition and widespread usage. Gambling dominates in terms of usage , since there are many places you can gamble both online and offline, and also accessible to numerous population.

[Hispo]

The most important difference when comes to gambling and playing the lottery is the fact gamblers have the possibility to adjust their risk exposure to losing their money or winnin something.
For example, people who play dices can go for different amounts of multipliers, and also decide what to risk on a single roll.
On the hand, when someone decides to play lottery, they cannot decide what they chances are to win with a single ticket, also tickets have a single fixed value in the market, even though someone can go for several tickets at the same time, it is not the same than going on a casino and have more control on our own risk.