I buy one lottery ticket a year, on my birthday. A lotto quick-pick. Fantasizing about what I’d do with the jackpot for a couple days is worth the buck a year.

I buy one lottery ticket a year, on my birthday. A lotto quick-pick. Fantasizing about what I’d do with the jackpot for a couple days is worth the buck a year. My total winnings in a lifetime is $2. There was some group that determined that it was possible to get a return of slightly over 1.0 on lottery tickets (I forget all the parameters, although the one I remember was playing numbers only greater than 31 to reduce the odds of sharing the jackpot with people who play birthdays/anniversaries/etc) and the return time to get slightly over 1.0 was several thousand years (this is all based on memories that are 30ish years old, so I may have some details wrong).