
Q: What other astronomical odds can you compare a lottery win to?Ī: From the web, I got that the odds of getting struck by lightning in a given year are about one out of one million. Q: If someone is looking at the overall odds of winning this major prize, what are they? He is available for questions and interviews ahead of the next drawing on Friday. Though he doesn’t plan to buy a ticket himself, he does offer his perspective below about the odds of other people getting the big prize. Steven Diaz is a mathematics professor at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. But what are the true odds of someone picking or getting the lucky number, and how does it compare to other unlikely chances? They walked off with a cool £170,221,000.What would you do with a billion dollars? That’s what a lot of people are asking themselves with the current Mega Millions jackpot topping $1 billion.

One of the UK’s biggest prizes was up for grabs on December, 4, 2020 with a whopping £175million EuroMillions jackpot, which would make a winner richer than Adele.Īnother previous UK winner who's whole life was altered with their jackpot was a player who wanted to remain anonymous on October 8, 2019. The first EuroMillions draw took place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: France's Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.

Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017 £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin.£1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline.

