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Why you probably won’t win the big lottery

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BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA - MARCH 26: George Hollins buys a Powerball ticket at the Shell Gateway store on March 26, 2019 in Boynton Beach, Florida. Wednesday's Powerball drawing will be an approximately $750 million jackpot which would be one of the biggest in US lottery prize history.   Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
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The chances of winning the mind-boggling US$1.5 billion American Powerball jackpot were 292,201,338 to one.

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Most people dream about winning the big lottery prize but chances are, you are not going to win anything. For instance, the chances of winning the recent mind-boggling

US$1.5 billion (S$2.1 billion) American Powerball jackpot

were 292,201,338 to one.

If your goal is making money – as opposed to having fun – it’s hard to make a worse bet. Yet 45 US state governments would very much like you to believe otherwise.

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