The old “Butter and Egg” numbers game ran by organized crime had much better odds than today’s legal lotteries.
At least the users stay quiet and out of the way.
I will stand in a line of geriatric or crack whore scratch ticket junkies next hour, deciding whitch ticket their future relies on.... All to buy a bottle of V8 juice and pack of gum. It is scary when one must leave early to work to wait while granny decides weather she wants 4 or five of the number 46, then decides she wants a mass million quickpick, or powerball. Then she finds a ten dollar winner in her purse and the whole process starts again.. I sometimes just wish a buss would run me over.