It would be about 1 billion times harder to pick all the winning teams randomly, Miecznikowski said. Picking all the winners in the 64-team NCAA basketball tournament is harder - much harder - than guessing the right Powerball numbers, he said. A person is more likely to get struck by lightning or bitten by a shark, but Miecznikowski says most people don’t know someone personally who has had either of those things happen. The odds of winning are so small that it’s hard to conceptualize it. “It’s very unlikely,” said Miecznikowski, who doesn't play Powerball himself. Roughly speaking, the chances of picking the right combination of numbers is like flipping a coin and getting heads 28 times in a row, according to Jeffrey Miecznikowski, an associate professor of biostatistics at the University at Buffalo in New York. "At our peak last night, we were selling more than $1.2 million in Powerball tickets every single minute." "That just shows the total randomness of Powerball," Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery, told NBC News' Weekend Todayon Sunday.
The odds of winning the largest prize in U.S. ET Wednesday - after nobody matched the winning numbers Saturday. The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to grow - to an estimated record $1.3 billion by the next drawing at 10 p.m. Watch Video: Powerball jackpot balloons to $1.3 billion
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