Odds Of Winning Powerball

The odds: Ticket holders have a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning Powerball. One expert says you have the same odds of flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row.

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Millions of Americans on Wednesday will try their luck at winning a $700 million Powerball jackpot. The odds of taking home the second largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history are one in 292.2 million, officials said.

• M illions of Americans on Wednesday will try their luck at winning a $700 million Powerball jackpot.The odds of taking home the second largest U.S. Lottery jackpot in history are one in 292.2.
• From January, Powerball players will have even better odds of winning a prize worth at least $1 million, and it's that fact that may soften the third and biggest-ever change. From January 15, 2012, Powerball Lottery tickets are doubling in price, in what is the biggest change to the Powerball Lottery draw since its launch in 1994.
• Overall odds of winning a prize in Powerball are 1 in 24.87.
• So the odds to win the Powerball game becomes 1 to 292 million. In simple terms, you might need 292 million attempts to win the jackpot. So if you play one ticket every week, then you need 292 million weeks to win. That sounds like playing for 5.6 million years or possibly more.

“You’re far more likely to die at a trip to the Grand Canyon than win the Powerball,” Amram Shapiro, a strategic statistician and author of The Book of Odds, told TIME in January 2016, when the jackpot hit $1.5 billion. “That’s the scale of all of this. It’s fascinating. They’re buying a dream.” Shapiro, of Massachusetts, drew from a research trove of more than 400,000 statements of probability to write the 2014 reference source of statistics on everyday life.

“There’s a point of view that says people who buy lottery tickets are being foolish because the expected return on their investment is so poor,” Shapiro said. “But at the same time there is a kind of mass phenomenon that attracts people. What you’re really paying for is the right to dream about what it would be like to have your life utterly transformed by money.”

Here are 10 things that are more likely to occur than winning the lottery:

1. Dying from an asteroid strike: 1 in 74,817,414

2. Getting killed by a terrorist act in the United States: 1 in 10,000,000

3. Getting murdered during a trip to the Grand Canyon: 1 in 8,156,000

4. Dying from chronic constipation: 1 in 2,215,900

5. Becoming a movie star: 1 in 1,505,000

6. Getting struck by lightning: 1 in 1,101,000

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7. Dying from a hornet, wasp or bee sting: 1 in 79,842

8. Bowling a 300 game: 1 in 11,500

9. Being the same height actor Hugh Jackman, who is 6-foot-2: 1 in 23.3

10. Becoming disabled, disfigured or killed by a parasite: 1 in 7.2

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Odds Of Winning Powerball Grand Prize

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