01/09/2025
Welcome to day three, draw three...
As I was preparing to press the button that triggered tonight's eliminations I was curious about what the odds were for those still in the draw… and as I thought about it, I wondered what the odds were for the lottery...
For those of you who play the lottery…here are some interesting stats from a CBC article a few years ago…
Those of us who do play the lottery — and approximately one-quarter of Canadians play weekly — may have heard these odds before.
Pay $2 and your odds of becoming a millionaire are approximately 1 in 14 million.
Your odds are even worse for winning Lotto Max. For $5, you are buying a one in 28,633,528 chance at winning at least $15 million.
Those odds are so long that you are more likely to:
- Be killed in a terrorist attack while travelling (1 in 650,000).
- Die — during an average lifetime — of flesh-eating disease (1 in
one million).
- Be killed by lightning (1 in 56,439).
- You are three times more likely to be killed in a traffic accident
driving 16 kilometres 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.
So what is the moral of the story? Your odds of winning Wine Survivor are WAY better! Unless you belong to Wine Ohs who, sadly, were eliminated tonight. Until tomorrow....
Here are the rest of tonights picks...
https://app-sorteos.com/w/E99N9G
