Odds Of Winning Powerball
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.
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“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
Odds are you don’t know this Did you know your odds of winning a prize are the same in every Powerball drawing? You have a 1 in 24.9 chance of winning a prize when the advertised jackpot is $40 million. You still have a 1 in 24.9 chance of winning a prize when the advertised jackpot is $1 billion. Division Numbers Matched Odds of Winning Prize Pool Percentage Payout In Last Draw Average Payout for Last 3 Months; 1: 5 + PowerBall: 1 in 42,375,200: 70.73%. The odds of your ticket matching only the red Powerball are 38.32 to 1. If you do, you win $4. 1 number plus the Powerball - still $4 Matching one number and the Powerball is more difficult than. Powerball numbers will be drawn Jan. Odds of winning? 1 in 292 million. According to lottery officials, however, about about one in every 25 plays will win something, even if it is $4.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million. However, the odds of winning any prize are a very reasonable 1 in 24.87 so it's not all doom and gloom. If you match the Powerball at all, you're guaranteed a prize, even if you don't match any of the main five draw numbers.
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
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
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10. Becoming disabled, disfigured or killed by a parasite: 1 in 7.2