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Odds For Tomorrow’s Powerball Drawing

Steve Artressia

Nobody won the Powerball drawing Wednesday night, which means tomorrow’s jackpot is up to $1.4 BILLION DOLLARS! Your odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are around one-in-292.2 million. To put that in perspective . . .

  • Your odds of getting struck by lightning are around 1-in-15,300.
  • Your odds of getting attacked by a shark are around 1-in-3.7 million.
  • And your odds of dying in a plane crash are around 1-in-11 million.

If you’d prefer to look at it THIS way . . . imagine you have Scrabble tiles that spell out “Powerball” . . .

  • Mix them up in a bag
  • Then select them in a random order.
  • The chance of pulling the tiles IN ORDER to spell “Powerball” . . . is about 1-in-180,000 (still over 1,600 times more likely than winning the actual Powerball jackpot).

Okay, so SOMEBODY’S got to win eventually, right? Assuming there’s just one jackpot winner, and they take the cash option, they’ll bring home a cool $643.7 MILLION before taxes. So, just for fun, what can you buy with all that dough?

  • Several private islands (which can cost as little as $100,000).
  • At least a few private jets (which can range in price from $3 million to over $100 million).
  • The most expensive Lamborghini ever sold, the Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, sold for $8.3 million at auction in 2019. So you could buy a couple of those.
  • And based on our question of the day . . . you could afford to have Darius Rucker sing at your wedding (including wives two through eight), PLUS, every backyard BBQ, birthday parties, and all your Bar and Bat Mitzvahs!