What? You mean those announcers were real people all along, not robots? I'm disillusioned.

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It's absolutely rigged. For every $1.00 you spend, the state takes $0.50.

Lotteries - a voluntary tax on the math-challenged.
That is why I will only buy a ticket only if the payout has exceeded the odds, which I believe is something north of $170 Mil. Of course if everybody did that it would never get there.

I am incentivized by the fact that it goes to the public treasury and principally schools, and not to a handful of rich owners.