The odds are not in your favor when it comes to winning the Powerball’s staggering $1.3 billion jackpot on Wednesday night, ...

Figuring out the odds of winning the Powerball lottery draws upon a vein of applied mathematics known combinatorics, which deals with ways of arranging and distributing objects. In the Powerball ...

The odds of your ticket matching only the red Powerball are 38.32 to 1. If you succeed, you win $4. Matching one number and ...

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The Powerball jackpot jumped to an estimated $1.1 billion for a Labor Day drawing, this year’s largest lottery prize and ...