Education, road and highway improvements, and parks and recreation facilities are the most popular. L otteries are advertised as a form of entertainment, but we all know what prompts players. It's not the enjoyment of paying a dollar and trying to guess which number combination is going to be drawn next. And, if I don't guess the right number combination, well, at least I've helped the government. If that were the case, then there are a lot of players out there who have gone broke being humanitarians.
Players are there because of the enticement of becoming rich.
As a matter of fact, many of these players see the lottery as possibly their only chance of ever getting rich. Lottery lines become very long and lottery business booms. Even those who don't usually play jump into the game. Greed, then, is the underlying issue. Greed is what prompts the players and advertisements for the lottery play on this same greed.