Or you're too poor to envision any other way to get rich and the lottery is the one way you can fantasize. In my case, I play with my 4 best friends, mostly because it's fun and a way for us to get together on something (we all live in different cities now). It's a tiny amount of money very well spent for me.
The card doesn't state the odds for that particular card conditional on the date of its purchase; it is presumably an average across all card purchases.
