The Lottery Lie: What $5/Week Really Costs You | TopMoneyApps
🎟️ The Lottery Lie

Scratch the ticket.
Then see what you actually lost.

Americans spend $100 billion on lottery tickets every year. Scratch yours — then we'll show you what that same money invested would have become.

1 Scratch your ticket
⭐ Official Jackpot ⭐
LUCKY STRIKE
Match any of YOUR numbers to the WINNING NUMBERS to win that prize
🏆 Winning Numbers
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Match 1 = $4
Match 2 = $50
Match 3 = $500,000
👇 Your Numbers — Scratch to Reveal
👆 Scratch to reveal your numbers
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2 Now see what investing that money would have done
$ / week
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Lottery expected return
~47¢ returned per $1 spent
The house always wins
📈
Invested in S&P 500
7% conservative annual return
No luck required

Where your money actually goes 📊

🎟️ Lottery return
💸 Total spent on tickets
📈 S&P 500 invested
3 The brutal truth
1 in 292M
Odds of winning Powerball jackpot
47¢
Average return per $1 spent on lottery
Total spent on tickets over this period
Extra you'd have by investing instead