Abstract: A dispensing arrangement for dispensing planar lottery tickets and like articles comprises a chute which in cross-section corresponds to the surface configuration of a lottery ticket, and at one end of which there is arranged a dispensing mechanism intended for separating a lottery ticket lying nearest the mechanism through a slot-like opening. According to the invention, the dispensing mechanism includes a friction member (12) which can move in the dispening direction and which in a first position is located beneath or in the plane in which a lottery ticket located nearest the mechanism (12) is intended to lie, and which in the second position is located above this plane. In the second position of the friction member, the friction member (12) lifts the end of a lottery ticket opposite the slot-like opening, wherewith the lottery ticket is supported at three locations, namely against the friction member (12) and against two mutually spaced and mutually parallel support bars (9) or like members.