I don't play the lottery, when my Grandfather was alive he was obsessed with lottery and scratch cards, it reached the stage where in the last year of his life lottery tickets and scratch cards were more important to him than food and water. He seemed to think he would win big one day and that's what he would leave to the family in his inheritence, but it never happened. I don't see lottery as much different from gambling, something you can get hooked on very quickly and blow all of your money on without getting much from it.