The genius of the lottery is that lt seems a lot easier than it really is. For example, a pick 4 game seems like it wouldn't be too hard to win, but in fact the chances of matching all four numbers is one in ten thousand.
I firmly believe that lf people could actually SEE the odds in some tangible way, they would not spend their money on a ticket. For example, if we could go to some vast uninhabited area of Kansas or Wyoming and put 176 million, I don't know, let's say shoe boxes just for fun, and literally put them on the ground, and then ask people if they want to spend two dollars to choose just one of the boxes, virtually nobody would do it. Because then you would have at least a faint idea of the odds. One of the boxes has a check for a hundred million bucks or whatever, but the the rest are empty. Maybe they could take you in a crop-duster plane so you could see with your own eyes just how many boxes 176 million really is.
Nobody in their right mind would do it.