Odds of Winning Lottery Low
Trying to figure out the odds of winning the lottery? Here are some things that are more likely to happen to you.
- Odds of being injured by a toilet this year: 1 in 10,000
- Odds of getting killed by a shark: 1 in 3.7 million
- Odds of dying from an asteroid or comet: between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 250,000
- Odds of dying from a bee sting: 1 in 6 million
- Odds of being murdered today in the United States: 1 in 19,000
- Odds of winning something (even the dollar you spent to get the ticket) in the lottery: 1 in 15
- Odds of winning the second-place $1 million prize (matching the numbers on five balls but not the required megaball): 1 in 18.5 million.
- The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot of 12-18-13 hover around 1 in 259 million, thanks to an October 2013 increase in numbers available for the lottery. Before the increase, the odds of winning the jackpot were 1 in 176 million. To put that in perspective, the population of the United States is around 317 million people.