What are odds you'll win the Powerball? You have a better chance of being hit by a meteor

You have a better chance of being eaten by a shark or struck by lightning than you do of winning the $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot, which has odds of you winning at 1 in 292.2 million.

In other words – if you’re not lucky – you’d have to buy 292,201,338 Powerball tickets with all variations to win just once.

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And with tickets costing $2, you’d be shelling out $584.4 million to hit the payoff. And then you’d have to pay taxes on your winnings.

Here’s a list of what you’re more likely to encounter than winning the Powerball jackpot.