Is playing national lottery smart or waste of time?

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I agree with the OP. Playing the national lottery it makes no sense. I participated in two such lotteries and won nothing. I have a few acquaintances who buy lottery tickets once a month and have failed to win the jackpot. Although my acquaintances have managed to recoup their lottery ticket winnings several times. That's all they were able to earn.

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[Fivestar4everMVP]

I agree with the OP. Playing the national lottery is pointless. I have participated in two such lotteries and won nothing. I have acquaintances who buy lottery tickets once a month and have failed to win the jackpot. Although my acquaintances have managed to recoup their lottery ticket winnings several times. That's all they were able to earn.

Winning something at all is still something mate, your friend(so to say) should be happy, and you should be happy too, winning a jackpot in a national lottery is an almost impossible mission, this is because the national lottery is a game played by millions of people all over the country, from my perspective or should I say observations, the higher the number of players , so does the chances of each player winning the jackpot greatly reduce.

I've come across people that played national lottery for years and never won anything, this is why prefer doing what ever kind of gamble I wanna do, in a private casino(online or offline), not one owned by the government.

[mak013]

In my country in such lotteries there are more than million of lottery tickets and there are about 50 winners, that win much more than ticket costs. So everybody can count his chances himself.
But the same time it is a nice way to make cheap presents for colleagues for example. It costs $1-3 and you don`t need to think what to buy. So, i`m playing sometimes such lotteries but never i buy these tickets for me.

[pawel7777]

...Although my acquaintances have managed to recoup their lottery ticket winnings several times. That's all they were able to earn.

Are you sure about that? People, in general, like to brag and exaggerate and say things that put them in a good light. On top of that, they're we're not very good about keeping the track of our income and expenses.

It's very easy to get deluded about your actual gambling performance when you don't keep (or have access to) actual win/lost records. Small losses often don't even get registered in long-term memory, whereas wins would cause a dopamine release and are likely to get engraved in memory. As a result - we may genuinely think that we're in profit when it's simply not true.