Can You Boost Your Chances Of Winning The $700 Million Powerball Jackpot?

The $700 million Powerball jackpot has people standing in line to buy tickets ahead of Saturday’s drawing on January 9th, which could possibly grow to be even more money than the one on Wednesday!

So if you are going to get a ticket, is there anything you can do to increase your chances of winning?

The answer is yes! However, it still will not make much of a difference anyway since the chances of winning are so small.

According to ABC News, “ticket holders have a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning. To put that in perspective, the odds of hitting the jackpot are about the same as your odds of flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row, stated Jeffrey Miecznikowski, associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo.”

You can also increase your chances a little bit more if you have the computer pick your numbers.

Assistant professor of mathematics at Southern Methodist University, Scott Morris, stated that there is no trick to playing the lottery, but your odds of winning increase if you let the computer pick rather than choosing yourself. That is because when use birthdates or other favorite numbers that are usually below the number 31, even though there are 69 numbered balls.

With additional reporting by Sal Lopez