Have you ever wondered what the chances are of being eaten by a shark? Attacked by a grizzly bear? Or being struck by lightning — twice?
The odds of winning are 1 in approximately 292 million, which are slightly better than your chances of winning Mega Millions: 1 in about 303 million.The chances of being struck by lightning are about 1 in a million. So you are almost 300 times more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to win Powerball or Mega Millions.Becoming U.S. president: 32.6 million to 1Being killed by a bee sting: 6.5 million to 1Becoming a movie star: 1.
“You do improve your odds when you buy more tickets,” Chartier says. “If you buy 100 tickets, you are 100 times more likely to win. But it's equivalent to me saying you get 100 guesses for that one second that I chose from the past nine years.” And picking random numbers rather than the ones you always play increases the odds that you don't have to share the jackpot.
“We have a tendency to pick similar numbers, because we often base them on things like birthdays and so forth,” Chartier says. “So picking random numbers really increases the odds that if you win, you won't have to share.
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