Powerball drawing for $240,000,000
Tonight’s Powerball drawing is for $240,000,000. A single winner opting for the lump payment will take home $114,000,000 – or 47 percent of the winnings.
I have put together a table of odds. On the left are the odds of winning various Powerball amounts according to the Colorado Lottery Web site. On the right are a few odds oddities I found at www.funny2.com. I see no problem throwing out a few of these over watercooler chit-chat, but please don’t go basing research proposals off this stuff.
| Entire jackpot | 1 in 146,107,962 | 1 in 20,000,000 | Becoming a saint | |
| $200,000 | 1 in 3,563,609 | 1 in 3,000,000 | Seeing a UFO today | |
| $10,000 | 1 in 584,432 | 1 in 576,000 | Struck by lightning | |
| $100 | 1 in 14,255 or 1 in 11,928* | 1 in 11,500 | Winning an Academy Award | |
| $7 | 1 in 291 or 1 in 746* | 1 in 563 | Catching a baseball at a game | |
| $4 | 1 in 127 | 1 in 117 | Your airline pilot is intoxicated | |
| $3 | 1 in 69 | 1 in 90 | Being born a twin in the U.S. | |
| Winning any prize | 1 in 37 | 1 in 25 | Getting hemorrhoids |
* Odds vary based on combinations
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You might scoff at the notion of becoming a saint or winning an Academy Award because your faith or your tendency to freeze in front of a camera would not make you a valid applicant. Well, if you don’t buy a Powerball ticket then you can’t very well apply the Powerball data to yourself either. “You can’t win if you don’t play.” – Arizona Lottery slogan
A rather ironic slogan given something else I found at www.funny2.com: The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
Please keep in mind should you beat the odds and win the jackpot:
55 percent of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.
100 percent of all lottery winners gain weight.
Give you one guess where those facts came from.
Good luck!
Tonight’s Powerball drawing is for $240,000,000. A single winner opting for the lump payment will take home $114,000,000 – or 47 percent of the winnings.
I have put together a table of odds. On the left are the odds of winning various Powerball amounts according to the Colorado Lottery Web site. On the right are a few odds oddities I found at www.funny2.com. I see no problem throwing out a few of these over watercooler chit-chat, but please don’t go basing research proposals off this stuff.
| Entire jackpot | 1 in 146,107,962 | 1 in 20,000,000 | Becoming a saint | |
| $200,000 | 1 in…
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