A way of selecting or eliminating several options of a choice, often done by choosing one slip of paper or piece of wood from among several. This is called casting lots.

They parted his garments, casting lots, Matt. 27: 35 (Ps. 22: 18; Mark 15: 24; Luke 23: 34; John 19: 24). They gave forth their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, Acts 1: 23-26. We cast lots—who of us should go in unto the house of Laban, 1 Ne. 3: 11.