Exactly, they would never sell anywhere close to the amount of tickets as they do for the single-winner lump sums that swell to ridiculous amounts. So they wouldn't have the necessary incoming ticket sales to be able to do the 250 $1 million winners.
Around here when the jackpots get high enough you actually find really long lines just to buy tickets. No one lines up to buy the scratch offs with much better odds of winning $1 million.
