Have you been struck by lightning lately? Won a gold medal in the Olympics? Or caught a shiny Pokemon?
If you haven’t done any of those things, you may want to hold off planning what you’ll spend your lottery winnings on, as the odds of those three happening are more likely than taking home the nearly $2 billion Powerball jackpot.
According to Powerball, the odds of getting all six numbers right and winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Before Saturday’s drawing, the Powerball rose to approximately $1.6 billion, being dubbed the “world’s largest lotto prize ever offered.” Now, it is the world’s second-largest as Monday’s drawing will be for an estimated $1.9 billion.
The cash payout for the winner, or winners, is $929.1 million, and if you want to have a better chance of bringing home the money, then you may want to try some numbers that are most commonly drawn.
According to the site Lotto Numbers, the numbers 61, 32, 63, 21, and 69 have been the five most frequently drawn numbers of the last seven years, and only one of them has been drawn in the last five Powerball drawings.
While spending hundreds of dollars on tickets will increase your chances of becoming an almost billionaire, buying 100 entries would only lower your odds to 1 in 2.92 million, which is still a steep task.
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Even though getting the jackpot will be nothing more than a dream for most, your odds of winning a smaller monetary prize are far better. According to Powerball, the chance of winning any prize is 1 in 24.9.
The game has nine ways in which players can win a Powerball prize, the smallest being $4. However, in Saturday’s drawing, 17 people walked away with a million dollars or more, a hefty fare for a $2 ticket.
For those looking to change their lives on Monday night, tickets are $2 per play, sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The numbers will be drawn at 10:59 p.m. EST, and if there are again no winners, the balls will be drawn again on Wednesday.
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