If you want to win $1 million for $1, play a single number on a roulette wheel and win. Put all the winnings on another single number and win again. Do it again. And again. You'll have just over $1 million. The odds of doing this are often 1 in 2 million.
That's still sever time more likely to happen than winning a standard 6/49 Lotto game.

If $20 million is bet on a Lotto jackpot, the state will take between 40 and 50 percent out of that figure immediately

Many state lottery directors insist that the demographics on people who play lotteries contradict the common criticism that poor people spend their food money on lottery tickets.