This visualization from Madison Trust Company showcases the 25 biggest lottery jackpots of all time and the actual lottery cash value after taxes: That means that your own birth equates to winning the Mega Millions jackpot 1.33 million times! So maybe you really are pretty lucky.
The odds of this exact version of you being born are around 1 in 400 trillion. Then again, if you think of it another way, the odds don’t seem so bad: Are you more likely to win the lottery or be born? The truth is that the odds of your own existence are lower than the odds of winning the lottery. The National Weather Service also reports that you are 250 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery. If you are playing a single state lottery, your odds of winning are around 1 in 42 million.Īccording to the CDC, you are 30,000 times more likely to experience a bathroom injury than to win the Mega Millions jackpot. The odds of winning a Powerball grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338, and the odds of winning $1 million from Powerball are 1 in 11,688,053. But what are your chances of winning the lottery? According to GoBankingRates, the odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are about 1 in 176 million. Money isn’t everything, but that doesn’t stop many of us from daydreaming about winning the lottery.
