[Rick Lee]

I'm pretty sure everyone in this thread is good enough at math to know their chances of winning are extremely low. The people who are bad at math - I call them the willfully poor - are those who view buying lottery tix as a source of income because they win just often enough with the scratch offs that they then keep buying for the big jackpots, while they can barely afford their cigarettes, and don't think of a way to pull themselves out of poverty other than to play the lottery. And there are many millions of those folks.