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Calculate Your Odds of Winning the Lottery Mega Millions Powerball

 

Have you any idea how exactly to calculate the odds of winning the lottery, such as the Florida Lottery? You can calculate each group of odds for each different lottery game you play. With the help of a small handheld calculator or with the free calculator on your computer, you only multiply the numbers together and add one division process when "the order" of one's chosen numbers is not required for a particular lottery game.

 

What you "have to know" is the number of total balls that the winning numbers are drawn from.....is it 59, 56, 42, 49, or 39? If there is a secondary drawing for the single extra ball, such as the "red ball" with Powerball or the Mega Millions'"gold ball" you have to know how many balls are in this group as well. Exist 49 or 39?

 

It doesn't matter if it's the Florida, Ohio, Texas, PA or NJ Lottery. This strategy or formula gives you the actual odds. Florida Lottery is 6/53. New York Lottery is 6/59. The Ohio Lottery, Massachusetts Lottery, Wisconsin Lottery, and the State of Washington Lottery carry a 6/49 lottery numbers ratio. Illinois Lottery has a 6/52.

 

Once you've these records correctly facing you and your calculator at hand, you can begin working the formulas. You will need to select five regular balls and one extra ball correctly matched to the winning drawn numbers to win the multi-million dollar jackpot that many of us dream about winning someday.

 

In the initial example you can find 56 balls in the initial group and 46 balls in the secondary group. In order to win the Jackpot you need to match each one of these balls (5 + 1) exactly, but definitely not in order. The California Lottery's Super Lotto Plus is 47/27. The big drum is spinning with the first area of the drawing. You have a 1/56 chance to complement your number to this first ball.

 

With one ball removed after the initial number has been drawn, at this point you have a 1/55 possibility of matching another among your numbers to the next ball drawn. With each drawn number a baseball is removed lowering the number of remaining balls with a total of one.

 

The odds of you correctly matching the quantity on the 3rd ball to be drawn is currently 1/54 from the full total number of balls remaining in the drum. With the next ball taken from the drum and sitting with one other two winning numbers, your odds of correctly matching the fourth ball is reduced to 1/53.

 

As you will see everytime a ball is released from the drum the chances are reduced by one. You started with a 1/56 chance, then with each new winning number it is reduced to 1/55, 1/54, 1/53, and with the fifth ball you have the odds of 1/52 correctly matching this fifth winning number. This is actually the first part of the formula of how to calculate your odds of winning the lottery, including the Florida Lottery.

 

Now take these five odds representing the five winning numbers (1/56, 1/55, 1/54, 1/53, and 1/52). The "1" on top of the fraction represents your one and only chance to correctly match the drawn number.

 

So you take your calculator and multiply all top numbers (1x1x1x1x1) equal one (1). Next you multiply all the bottom numbers (56x55x54x53x52). Correctly entered and multiplied you discover the total is 458,377,920. The new fraction becomes 1/458,377,920. This is a 458 million to one possiblity to win. If you were required to choose the numbers in order just like they're drawn, then these is the odds against you to win this Pick 5/56 ball lottery game.

 

Fortunately or unfortunately, you're not required to pick the numbers in the exact order they're drawn. The second step of the formula will reduce the odds, which allows you to match these five winning numbers in virtually any order. In this you will multiply how many balls drawn -- five (1x2x3x4x5). With calculator at hand you see that the sum total equals 120.

 

To give you the right to choose your five matching numbers in any order, you create these odds by dividing 120/417,451,320. You actually require a calculator for this one. 120/458,377,920 reduces your odds of winning this lottery to 1/3,819,816. They are over 3.5 million to at least one odds against you of winning this Pick 5/56 ball lottery game.

 

If this were the Mega Millions Lottery, you need to include the "gold ball" to these five winning drawn balls in order to win the Multi-Million Dollar Jackpot. The single gold ball is calculated as a 1/46 possibility of matching it correctly, and since you are drawing just one number it needs to be an exact match. Again, you merely have that "1" chance to accomplish it right. So you need to multiply 3,819,816 by 46.

 

Grab your calculator and do the multiplication. Your final odds against you winning the Mega Millions Jackpot are calculated to be 175,711,536 or clearly stated 175 million, 711 thousand, 5 hundred 36 thirty-six to at least one (175,711,536 to 1). Now you know how to calculate the odds of winning the Mega Millions Lottery.

 

The Powerball Lottery calculations are derived from a 1/59 for the first five white balls and 1/39 for the "red" power ball. The first group of multipliers is 59x58x57x56x55. This group totals 600,766,320. Now divide 600,766,360 by 120 (1x2x3x4x5). Your brand-new total is 5,006,386. There's a 1/39 possiblity to catch the "red" ball. 39 x 5,006,386 offers you the true odds of winning the Powerball Jackpot, namely 195,249,054 to 1.

 

Another 5 +1 Lottery that appears to be everywhere in the United States is the "Hot Lotto" that includes a 39/19 count. It's played in 15 different States. DC Lottery, Delaware Lottery, Idaho Lottery, Iowa Lottery, Kansas Lottery, Maine Lottery, Minnesota Lottery, Montana Lottery, New Hampshire Lottery, New Mexico Lottery, North Dakota Lottery, Oklahoma Lottery, South Dakota Lottery, Vermont Lottery, and the West Virginia Lottery. The final odds of winning the minimum $1 Million Jackpot is 10,939,383 to 1.

 

A Pick 6/52 ball Lottery game formula looks such as this: (1/52, 1/51, 1/50, 1/49, 1/48, 1/47) for a complete of 14,658,134,400 divided by 720 (1x2x3x4x5x6) for the odds of 1/20,358,520. Your possiblity to win the 6/52 Lottery has ended 14.5 million to at least one to win, such as the Illinois Lotto.

 

The Hoosier Lottery that uses Indiana State's nickname, posesses 6/48. Michigan Lottery is 6/47, Arizona Lottery and Missouri Lottery are 6/44, Maryland Lottery is 6/43, and Colorado Lottery is 6/42. Compare this to the Florida Lottery.

 

A Pick 5/39 ball Lottery game formula looks similar to this: (1/39, 1/38, 1/37, 1/36, 1/35) for a total of 69,090,840 divided by 120 (1x2x3x4x5) for the odds of 1/575,757 of winning the Jackpot such as the Illinois Little Lotto. Other States with the exact same 5/39 lottery numbers include the NC Lottery, Georgia and Florida Lottery Fantasy 5, and Tennessee Lottery's Pick 5. Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 carries a 5/34 range.