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  2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Where more than 1 powerball is drawn from a separate pool of balls to the main lottery (for example, in the EuroMillions game), the odds of the different possible powerball matching scores are calculated using the method shown in the "other scores" section above (in other words, the powerballs are like a mini-lottery in their own right), and ...

  3. Powerball: Why getting eaten by a shark is more likely than ...

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    For Mega Millions, jackpot winners pick five different numbers from 1 to 70 for the white balls and one number from 1 to 25 for the gold “Mega” ball. To calculate the odds, there are ...

  4. What Can You Win Matching One Number on Mega Millions? - AOL

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    The odds of winning Mega Millions are 302,575,350 to one. That doesn’t stop thousands of lotto fans from joining the fun and daydreaming about the day they win the grand prize. While many are ...

  5. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    The probability of hitting the jackpot varies between the different lotteries. Popular US lotteries have odds ranging from the astronomical 1 in ~300 million in Mega Millions (a double-pick lottery) to the fairly good 1 in ~170 thousand in the Wisconsin Lottery Badger 5 (a pick-5, 31 number lottery). Wheeling systems are usually intended to ...

  6. Quick Pick vs Picking Your Own Lotto Numbers: Is One ... - AOL

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    It's easy. And it makes sure you’re utilizing the full pool of selectable numbers at your disposal. Mega Millions, for example, draws numbers from 1 to 70. ... Odds are calculated by the total ...

  7. Mega Millions - Wikipedia

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    Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

  8. Winning ticket for $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot sold ...

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    The Mega Millions jackpot winner could either take the cash payout of $549.7 million or the $1.22 billion annuity paid out over 30 years. ... The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.

  9. Mega Millions lottery jackpot up to $619 million: When ... - AOL

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    The odds of winning the Mega Millions are 1 in 302.6 million, but if you are one of the luckiest people on earth and do win the $619 million jackpot, you have two options to pick from, according ...