What The Chances Of Winning A Jackpot Actually Looks Like

Reply #12

grwurston — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:28 GMT

Don't fall asleep. You might miss the second with the winning combo.

Reply #11

IAmABadOne — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:54:50 GMT

Here is another interesting comparison using seconds for each unique jackpot combination...

We will definitely need to check our calendars and watches very carefully in order to choose correctly.

MM: 290,472,336 Combinations with one combination for each second will be: 9 Years, 2 Months, 16 Days, 5 Hours, 25 Minutes, 36 Seconds.

PB: 292,201,338 Combinations with one combination for each second will be: 9 Years, 3 Months, 6 Days, 23 Hours, 2 Minutes, 18 Seconds.

Will my $39.95 Ti... [ More ]

Reply #10

LottoBux — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:38:37 GMT

I like the 9th longest word for some reason,

Demi semi hemi demi semi quaver (26 letters)

Then there's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) at number 5 for any Mary Poppins fans out there.

Reply #9

grwurston — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:37:32 GMT

Here's another comparison.

For MM, One grain of salt out of 41,498.048 pounds of table salt.

For PB, One grain of salt out of 41,743.048286 pounds of table salt.

Table Salt lb to gr converter for culinary teaching and diet. You may have to toggle.

traditionaloven.com/culinary-arts/cooking/table-salt/convert-pound-lb-to-grain-gr.html

No matter how you look at it the chances of winning are astronomical. But not impossible for around 4-6 or so players a year for each game.... [ More ]

Reply #8

KY Floyd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:20:19 GMT

Here's a visualization for you. Due to their shape, M Ms in a box take up about 0.0574 cubic inches per M M. 292,201,338 M Ms would have a volume of 16,758,606.15 cubic inches. There are 1,788 cubic inches in a cubic foot, so that's 9,372.8 cubic feet of M Ms. There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard, so that's 347.14 cubic yards of M Ms.

Put them in eleven 30 cubic yard dumpsters and most of the rest in a 15 yard dumpster. Fill a 2 yard dumpster, and the rest will almost fill a 30 gallon gar... [ More ]

Reply #7

Coin Toss — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:01:18 GMT

Good for you. Not everybody can do that, especially for that kind of amount but it's a good idea.

Reply #6

JustMaybe — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:19:06 GMT

For every $100 that I spend on the lottery, I fund my retirement accounts with $2,000.

The lottery is a hope and a dream.

My retirement accounts, that's the proven investment that works, I don't gamble about that.

Reply #5

grwurston — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:48:23 GMT

If every adult in the U.S. approx 276.8 million, each bought a different combination. That would still leave 72.5 times the entire list for MM, and 81.1 times the entire list for PB, of unsold combinations.

With those kinds of odds I rarely play.

Reply #4

JustMaybe — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:13:51 GMT

Because of that, I always try to buy one ticket for a draw and I sometimes skip drawings all together.

It's for the same reason that I would attribute a jackpot win purely to luck as opposed to any smart moves that my mind is telling me am making

Good luck to my one QP PB ticket for tonight's draw

Reply #3

hypersoniq — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:47:29 GMT

This is exactly why I would rather play 1 ticket for 2 draws rather than 2 tickets for 1 draw. Also why the powerball double draw is worth the extra $1. You get 2 draws for that one ticket.

Reply #2

Elizabeth03 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:34:49 GMT

I play the Atlantic 49 in Canada.

Reply #1

grwurston — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:36:31 GMT

It's quite the visual to see what you are actually up against with one ticket. Good Luck

What The Chances Of Winning A Jackpot Actually Looks Like

grwurston — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:59:26 GMT

This link is for the longest word in the English language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

When wikipedia comes up click on the partial spelling to see the entire word. It's the first one. You might want to use a laptop instead of a phone.

It has 189,819 letters. Now imagine each letter being one jackpot combination.

MM is 290,472,336 to one. PB is 292,201,338 to one.

To have every MM combination you would have to play the entire list 1,530.25954198... [ More ]