If it were easy, the jackpots wouldn’t be so big and there would be small winners in every single draw. You see, Powerball is special because it’s difficult, though not impossible, to win. Many international lotto winners have had their lives changed, and who’s to say that you won’t too? Let’s discuss how you can improve your odds of taking home a massive jackpot on Powerball.

We won’t sugarcoat it. The odds of winning Powerball are astronomical, though not impossible! It all comes down to being in the right place at the right time and entering a combination of lucky numbers that match the winning ones. It doesn’t matter if it’s just a very slight increased chance. At the end of the day, ANY increased chance is better than NO increased chance. When it comes to Powerball’s astonishing jackpots, you should do everything in your power to win.

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Powerball ticket holders have a 1 in 292 million chance of winning a jackpot. A mathematician believes that those are the same odds of flipping a coin and it landing on heads 28 times in a row. Though the odds are very low, it’s not impossible. If it were impossible, there would be no Powerball jackpot winners EVER in the history of draws! Just think about that for a second.

Okay, so we know the odds don’t look great, but that doesn’t mean you can’t IMPROVE them. Here’s how:

Scott A. Norris, assistant professor of mathematics at Southern Methodist University, states that there is no sure-fire way of increasing your odds to definitely take home a prize, but you can increase your odds if you let the computer pick your numbers randomly as opposed to you selecting them yourself.

Why let the computer pick your numbers? Many people choose their numbers based on special birthdays and anniversaries. When they do, they generally pick the number 31 or below. That ignores the fact that there is a total of 69 balls! In essence, you are missing out on all the other possible combinations. You are spreading yourself too thin when you pick your own numbers. It’s best to have numbers chosen completely at random, so you get a good spread across the board.

However small the odds may be, they do increase when you buy multiple tickets for each draw.

If you can afford it and want to buy all the possible number combinations that strategy would cost you a whopping $584 million, but the odds are extremely high that you will win the jackpot. So if you’ve got all this cash laying around, and we can’t imagine why you’d want to play the lottery if you’re this rich, but let’s say you do, you would be spending $584 million to win another couple of million.

Remember that when taxes are subtracted, you’ll end up losing some of that money. So although this method has a high chance of it working, you would be spending way too much money on a jackpot that will decrease in size after tax. Another horrific scenario would be that another player matches the same numbers as you, which means you’d have to share the prize with them.

An Orlando man who recently won the lottery has been so kind as to share his tips on how to increase your chances of winning. Let’s take a look at some of them…

“Do not spend grocery money. Do not spend rent money,” says the Orlando winner, Richard Lustig. Richard is a grandfather and knows all about winning big, but he emphasizes the point of not spending your last two dollars playing. He recommends creating a budget just for lottery tickets, and if you can afford it, buy as many tickets as you can and play often.

Another one of his tips is to buy 10 tickets in a row of the same game. If you do that almost every single time, you’re bound to find a winning ticket in there most of the time – sometimes even two or three!

This article forms part of our Powerball Resource Centre.

Well, there you have it. Winning the Powerball jackpot is a hard feat to accomplish. You know it, we know it, and the whole world knows it. That doesn’t mean that it’s impossible! You should do your best to take heed of all this advice and use it to better your chances of taking home a life-changing prize. Every little effort counts!

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