Poll: How Many Mega Millions Tickets Did You Buy?

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot reached $540 million on Thursday. The big winner can also take the lump sum payout of $389 million.

We've got our tickets, but Patch's partners over at Daily Finance say lottery players are the biggest suckers.

The truth is that getting rich from winning the lottery isn't just unlikely. It's (statistically) impossible.

And apparently Georgia is at the top of the sucker list.

Collectively, Peach State inhabitants spent $3.4 billion on lottery tickets over the past year -- an average of $470.73 per adult. That amounted to a full 1% of their annual income, ensuring the state a high ranking on Bloomberg's "sucker index." But it was its low rate of winning lottery payouts (62.9%) that really pushed Georgia over the top and won it the biggest-sucker prize.