Every St. PATRICKS DAY the Oregon Lottery sells 250,000 tickets at $10.00 each for a drawing in which the top prize is $1,000,000.00. Since they limit ticket sales and guarantee a winner your chances of getting the million dollars are 250,000 to 1. That is considerably better odds than the 295,000,000 to one odds to win the Powerball. So if you feel better losing at lesser odds, and you will still lose, by all means buy a ticket and donate your ten dollars to a total stranger. I speak from experience.