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2 days agoShould You Spend $2 to Win $1.3 Billion? Inside Powerball Math
Chance of Winning For Powerball, you pick five random numbers out of the digits 1 through 69, plus a Powerball number from 1 to 26. This math is simple: With a single ticket, your chance of winning is one in 292,201,338. If you buy two tickets and run different numbers, your odds are two in 292,201,338not much better!and so on. You may think, Okay, I'm going all out this time. I'm spending $50 to buy 25 tickets. Your chance is now 25 out of 292 million, which is still, sorry to say, infinitesimal.