Wrong perspective. "We" had nothing to do with it. The lottery analogy implies a selector, but it's only a model: in reality, this is an autonomous, unselecting

Wrong perspective. "We" had nothing to do with it. The lottery analogy implies a selector, but it's only a model: in reality, this is an autonomous, unselecting, random distribution, and "we" just happen to be in it and able to describe it from within. We had no bearing on whether we were created or not, nor which universes were 'rejected.' (The 'rejected' ones surely still exist, with the exception of the fact that perhaps they didn't produce an observer to know about them). "We" reject other universes because "we" observe this one, and "we" don't observe the others. There may not be others. There could be infinite others. We don't know; we know only what we see, and that's a universe in which we exist. The trait of observation means only that an observer exists. It's a tautology, and does not imply anything else. This is similar to consciousness (another analogy): you appear to be an isolated observer of the world, when in fact there are over 7 billion others, who also are themselves isolated observers of the world. The fact that you can observe your own existence does not mean you are selected or that any selection process took place that resulted in you specifically. Your consciousness came afterward; your ability to understand it even later. Consciousness is, in fact, quite common and ordinary. It carries no meaning other than what it is. Ascribing meaning to the trait of one's own consciousness is just a human construct. It is an illusion; a by-product of consciousness itself. As with the universe. The universe which created us is not special. It's simply the one in which we find ourselves. "Special" is what we might call that, but only from our (limited, tiny, inconsequential) perspective. In the greater reality, it is simply a thing that happened. Other universes with different parameters may have other sentient beings in them with the same dilemma. They are not selected for either; they simply happen to have conditions which resulted in the evolution of beings who can see and think and feebly understand where they are. The purpose of all this is up to you. The most likely explanation is that there is not a purpose to the conditions from which our consciousness came about. It is likely simply one universe in an infinite number in the unfathomably large and complex—yet simple—reality that is. We may never know what is outside our universe, but that is the reason for its continued study. Or, as good as any: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” - Sagan