This is a set of activities which develops the idea of odds and how they can be applied to understanding why the lottery is, at best, a sucker's bet. It takes a list of ten different things that can happen, from rolling a set of snake eyes using two dice (1/36) to being born with an extra finger or toe (1/500) to winning an Oscar (1/11,500) to drowning in a bathtub (1/850,000) to becoming president of the US (1/10,000,000) to winning the Mega-Millions or Powerball lotteries (which have slightly