ladder lottery
A type of lottery used to randomly pair items.
The lottery consists of a ladder of vertical lines connected by horizontal lines. The player chooses a line on top and follows the line down, following horizontal lines whenever they're encountered, until they reach a prize at the bottom.
Also known as Ghost Leg in Chinese and Amidakuji in Japanese.
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The following tags are aliased to this tag: amidakuji and ghost_leg_(game) (learn more).