D.C. Lottery's new commercials: some win, some left behind

Your friend or work colleague just won a big prize in the D.C. Lottery.

Now you’re stuck.

That’s at least the residual message in the new “Unless I Win the Lottery” advertising campaign for the D.C. Lottery, which begins airing Monday. The main theme, as you’d expect, is that some people really do win the lottery.

The four commercial spots “feature game-show jingle music and amusing expressions featuring the joy of lottery winners — and the befuddlement of people left behind — when winners…