The odds of winning the Lottery are the same as getting hit by lightning seven days in a row.
Actually you had a higher chance of winning last night's lottery than being hit twice by lightning in a year.
And, yet, people do win.
Check this out.
I did ‘win’ a Million $$ prize here. I only had to play 2 games a week for 6,341 years and spent over 2,000,000.00 to get it. Lots of fun, though.
Powerball Simulator
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