Those odds [of winning the lotto] are so long that you are more likely to:
1. Be killed in a terrorist attack while travelling (1 in 650,000).
2. Die — during an average lifetime — of flesh-eating disease (1 in one million).
3. Be killed by lightning (1 in 56,439).
You are three times more likely to be killed in a traffic accident driving 16 kilometers to buy your ticket than winning the jackpot.
In 2002, you were about 10 times more likely to die after being bitten by a poisonous snake or lizard than to win a Lotto 6/49 jackpot. Odds for the snakebite death are one in 1,241,661, according to the U.S. National Safety Council.
Want to increase your chances? Buy 50 tickets a week. You are very likely to win the jackpot at least once — in 5,000 years.
Say you're standing on a football field. You're blindfolded and holding a pin. A friend has released an ant on the field. Your chance of piercing that ant with your pin is about the same as winning a Lotto 6/49 jackpot. One in 14 million. Not exactly a sure bet.
You can increase your odds — for a price. You could try to buy enough tickets to cover all possible six number combinations, but at two bucks a shot, that comes out to $27,967,632.
Hardly seems worth the effort, even with the biggest jackpots, especially if two or three other people come up with the same idea.
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