Do you play the lottery?

• What Is More Likely Than Winning The Euromillions
• Which Lottery Has Better Odds

Everyone knows the odds of winning the lottery are unlikely, but exactly how unlikely?

What Is More Likely Than Winning The Euromillions

These are better odds than the EuroMillions jackpot, but not as good as the EuroMillions HotPicks main prize. The odds of winning the most basic prize (matching two numbers which gets you a free Lotto Lucky Dip) are 1 in 10.3. When compared to the 1 in 22 chance of winning the bottom prize in EuroMillions. The absolute best any-prize odds of any of our lotteries is the French lotto, with any-prize odds of 6:1. In second place we have Austrian Lotto, another popular choice due to its low price, good any-prize and jackpot odds (the same as the Irish Lotto.

First off, I am talking about the major lotteries here.

• The chances of winning are actually better than your odds of matching exactly five main numbers.
• There is a better chance that you will win the lottery, than there is that these things will happen: Getting a perfect NCAA bracket (1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808) Shuffling a deck of cards into perfect.

Namely, The Powerball and Mega Millions. Heard of them?

The odds are similar for winning both. Around 1 in 176,000,000.

Not too bad, right? Oh wait, yes it is.

In fact, here are a total of 24 things that are more likely to happen than winning the lottery…

Dying Isn’t That Likely

You have heard that you are more like to die on the way to buy your lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery, right? The odds of you dying in a car accident are 1 in 6,700, by the way.

Dying isn’t really that likely, especially in some of these weird ways, but it’s still more likely than winning the lottery.

Here are 11 other ways you are more likely to die than win the lottery:

1. Being killed by a vending machine. (1 in 112 million)
2. Being killed in a terrorist attack on an airline. (1 in 25 million)
3. Dying from a bee, hornet or wasp sting. (1 in 6.1 million)
4. Dying from being left-handed and using a right-handed product incorrectly. (1 in 4.4 million)
5. Dying in a plane crash. (1 in 1 million)
6. Being killed by flesh-eating bacteria. (1 in 1 million)
7. Getting Struck by Lightning. (1 in 1 million)
8. Drowning (1 in 2,000,000)
9. Drowning specifically in a bathtub. (1 in 840,000)
10. Dying in an on-the-job accident. (1 in 48,000)
11. Being murdered…just in general. (1 in 18,000)

It’s pretty unlikely that any of that will happen to you and it’s definitely more unlikely that you will win the lottery.

It’s not all bad though. There are actually good things…or at least, neat things, that are more likely to happen:

1. Getting attacked by a shark. (1 in 11.5 million)
2. Visiting the ER for a pogo stick related injury. (1 in 115,300)

Oh wait! I said good things…here you go:

1. Having identical quadruplets. (1 in 15 million)
2. Becoming US president. (1 in 10 million)
3. Becoming a Movie Star. (1 in 1,505,000)
4. Becoming an astronaut. (1 in 12,100,000)
5. Becoming a pro athlete. (1 in 22,000)
6. Winning an Olympic gold medal. (1 in 662,000)
7. Winning an academy award. (1 in 11,500)
8. Finding out your child is a genius. (1 to 250)
9. Dating a millionaire. (1 to 215)
10. Getting a royal flush in a first hand of poker. (1 in 649,740)

Talk about good luck. Well, better luck than winning the lottery.

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So if you want a safer investment than the lottery, try Vegas. Or try to find one of those millionaires.

With all of these odds, it’s hard to believe that anything is less likely than winning the lottery, but you would be surprised…

There is a better chance that you will win the lottery, than there is that these things will happen:

• Getting a perfect NCAA bracket (1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808)
• Shuffling a deck of cards into perfect, sequential order (1 in 10^68)
• Being hit by a meteor (1 in 182,138,880,000,000)

I guess those are 3 things that aren’t worth trying…especially getting hit by a meteor. Don’t try that at home, kids.

Well, if someone offers a billion dollars for guessing the NCAA bracket, it doesn’t hurt to try.

You Exist! What Are the odds?

It’s important to know that you are less likely to exist than you are to win the lottery.

So that means you have already beat the odds by being here at all.

Good job!

Which Lottery Has Better Odds

The odds of you existing are 1 in 10^2,685,000. Check this out:

If you like to be specific, you can actually calculate your odds for winning the lottery here.

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