What Are Your Real Chances of Winning the Lottery?

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The odds of winning Powerball are one in 292,201,338

A multibillion dollar payout seems to offset the roughly one-in-300-million chance of winning to yield a positive expected value for a ticket  Must be 18 to buy Jackpot prize is estimated annuitized and will be divided equally among all winning tickets Prizes equal 50% of overall sales Overall odds

82 lottery net m plan The odds are similar for winning both Around 1 in 176,000,000 Not too bad, right? Oh wait, yes it is In fact, here are a total of 24 things In fact it's even harder to win Mega Millions and Powerball than it used to be because recent rules make the odds even longer so lottery games