A LOT!!! All wasted, too by the people buying them. I don't have any precise figures but it amounts to many billions of dollars/year worldwide. People would be much smarter and somewhat better off, individually, if they used that money to buy useful things for themselves instead of giving it to greedy people who run lotteries and will suck up all they can get and still want more.
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1. Buy lottery tickets 2. If your under 13 ask a parent to help. Do the lottery tickets 3. Enter the lottery tickets 4. See how much you won! might be 1000
Lottery vendors usually don't make anything from winning tickets, but rather from sales of the tickets themselves.
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Americans "throw away" more than half a trillion dollars each year on things such as lottery tickets.
almost no money is wasted on sports because sports are a business
It's $300.00 a book in the U.S.
How much money a year is spent on chocolate?
When you receive your cash winning depends on the company where you won the money. It also depends on how much you won. With the lottery, instant tickets up to $500 can be paid immediately.
How much money is spent on magazines each year?
Lottery Ticket grossed $24,719,879 worldwide.