Pick a game, any game, and there are thousands — no millions — of persons who commit their really hard-earned dollars on a $2 piece of a paper that a lot more generally than not becomes a disappointment.
If you win a prize in the course of one of the drawings, you do not have to wait until the last drawing has occurred just before collecting those winnings.
The world's largest jackpot was a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012.