Players have a one-in-28 million shot at the $50 million.
There is a better chance that a ticket holder will:
- Hit two holes-in-one in a row three times
- Get 10 royal flushes when playing poker
- Land on heads 25 times in a row when tossing a coin
- Be struck by lightning three times
- Men are 5,000 times more likely to die of breast cancer than win the lottery
- One-in-28 million odds are similar to driving through 25 traffic lights and getting green every time. Here
I have only won one time: a plastic wood fascia Candle Stereo with two speakers from my purchase of a Laura Secord French Mint chocolate bar (retail 150.00 in the 80's). I think the odds were 1 in 160,000.
5 comments:
I did not see your post on the lottery before writing my post on the lottery. But in fairness, I started a lottery webpoll in the afternoon with the intention of writing about the lottery in the evening.
It was either blog about the lottery or take some digs and France and Italy for being knocked out of the World Cup early. The wops weren't able to dive their way to a title this year.
It is $2 for a shot at a dream, and as long as that $2 bucks doesn't mean the kids go hungry why not?
Statistically, you can't win if you do not have a ticket. So, I have a ticket. I will let you know if lightning hits!
The LottoMax is $ 5 dollars per play.
I agree you can't win unless you play.
(I don't own a store and can't steal it!)
I was just having fun with the odds from the staticians.
I do think I have done the red light thing (not as many) but at least 15 straight green.
I forget who said it first but I think this sums it up.
Lotteries are a voluntary tax on the stupid.
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