The average American spends $207 annually on tickets. The only trouble with investing that kind of dough in lottery tickets is that the odds are definitely not in your favor.
Indeed, you’re 300 times more likely to get struck by lightning in any given year than win a multimillion-dollar jackpot in the Mega Millions or Power Ball contest — no matter how frequently you play.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/buying-lottery-tickets-will-never-make-you-rich/