The Lottery Man is a 1916 American silent comedy film written by Theodore Wharton and Rida Johnson Young.

[1][2] Jack Wright is a young college man and football hero who after graduating, discovers that his mother has lost the family property, so that he must go to work.

He becomes a newspaper reporter and induces the paper to start a lottery with himself as the prize, agreeing to marry the woman who holds the lucky number.

[4] Lynde Denig of the Moving Picture World said that it lacked much of the humor of the stage comedy from which it was taken, but it is not without redeeming features in the acting of Thurlow Bergen and the situations developed from a first rate farcical plot.

It is hardly a picture for audiences accustomed to the niceties of expert studio workmanship, but for those who are not over particular, and who respond to comedy and sentiment in the elementary forms, there should be entertainment in the production.