[combat_boots]

I looked it up. The last go around, one winning ticket was sold. Can you imagine? One $270mm ticket?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Uncle Sam is the only real winner of lotteries.

Everybody takes their after-tax earnings, and puts in in a huge pot.

Eventually, someone takes 60% of the pot, and the Feds take 40%.

So it’s like everybody is just giving Uncle Sam 40% of their money.

[minnesota_bound]

Odds of dating a supermodel: 1 in 880,000!!
They should have lottery tickets for models. They would sell many many tickets....

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The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are the same at each drawing — about 1 in 176 million. You’re more likely to be killed by an asteroid in your lifetime. Below are odds of other things happening to you, to keep things in perspective:

Any person’s lifetime odds of being killed by an asteroid impact: 1 in 700,000. Odds of an American being killed in a terrorist attack (in about the last five years): 1 in 20 million. Odds of dying in a shark attack: 1 in 3.1 million. Odds of dating a supermodel: 1 in 880,000. Chance of being struck by lightning: 1 in 12,000 — but some climate scientists predict that will narrow to 1 in 8,000 by 2100. Odds of dying from flesh-devouring bacteria: 1 in a million. The odds of having an 11th toe: 1 in 500.