Suppose that a group of people wants to choose someone to do some task. So they write everyone's names in pieces of paper (one name per piece), put all the pieces in a bag and someone picks up a name from the bag.
In this case, I'd say the person was chosen "by lot" or "by draw"?
Do you know which one is correct (or both, or none and there's a better word/expression for that) and if there are any difference between them?
Best Answer
By lot. Someone chosen by lot was chosen in a draw. A draw is the event of choosing something by that method, but you can't use it as an adjective like you can with "by lot".
Also, as an interesting side note, in English we often say "picked out of a hat" or "a name from a hat" or "taken from a hat" or something similar, even if there was no hat involved! For some reason, in English, hat = choosing at random. Probably because in the not too recent past, everyone would have a hat to use.