Posted by:
Mnemonic
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Date: July 23, 2014 09:25PM
You and a lot of other people.
Gambling should be done for entertainment purposes ONLY! If you need money look for another solution to your problems. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery grand prize is 1 in 175,223,510. Let me repeat that. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery grand prize is 1 in 175,223,510. Let's give that number some perspective.
A person's chance of getting attacked by a shark in the United States is about 1 in 11.5 million. You are about 15 times more likely to get attacked by a shark than win the Powerball lottery.
A person's chance of getting struck by lightning in the United States is about 1 in a million. You are about 175 times more likely to get hit by lightning than win the Powerball lottery.
A person's chance of dying in a commercial plane crash is about 1 in 11 million. You are almost 16 times more likely to die in a commercial plane crash than win the Powerball lottery.
http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_prizes.asp