Did you know that the odds of winning big with the lottery are something like 1 in 260 million?

It’s scary to realize that you are WAY more likely to get struck by lighting (1 in 10,000 chance of that!), be attacked by a shark OR die in a plane crash (both around a 1 in 11 million chance), or to be crushed to death by a vending machine (1 in 112 million chance.)

Yet hopefuls slap their cash down on convenience store counters each week, clinging to the dream that it will change their liv...