I was once chatting with an investment advisor who mentioned that the lotteries with the multi million dollar jackpots have the best risk to reward ration of any investment you can make. That is provided you only buy the occasional ticket.
If you are buying multiple tickets every week then the risk to reward ratio shifts against you pretty quickly. I’d rather buy an extra case or two of ammo every year than spend the $10 or more per week many people do on lottery tickets. Though it is nice to buy them every once in awhile for the occasional dream of what I could do with all that money.
The odds of winning the gun a day are significantly better though still a long way from being a sure thing.