The Powerball jackpot has surged to $1.1 billion, a life‑changing sum that can turn a $3 ticket into generational wealth. The ...

When trying to evaluate the outcome of a risky, probabilistic event like the lottery, one of the first things to look at is expected value. The expected value of a randomly decided process is found by ...

Does it seem like lottery jackpots get bigger than they used to? It’s true - the odds are tougher now after a systematic ...

That is a pretty huge chunk of money. However, as we saw with last week's similarly large Mega Millions jackpot, which someone did win on Saturday, taking a closer look at the underlying math of the ...

The Powerball lottery drawing for Saturday evening has hit a record-high estimated jackpot prize of $1.5 billion at the time of this writing. While that's a huge amount of money, buying a ticket is ...

At $1.4 billion, the Powerball jackpot on the line Saturday night is the world’s fifth-largest lottery prize, due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing and, of course, ...

B Powerball jackpot to be drawn Monday, but the odds still aren't in your favor - The Powerball jackpot now stands at an ...

The rollover means one lucky player could be in line to receive a life-changing windfall during the holiday season ...

The odds of winning Wednesday's jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. One math professor says those odds are equivalent to ...

You have a one in 300 million chance of winning the jackpot and while hitting the lottery may sound impossible, a mathematician shares how it is doable. Speaking to WIRED, Ryan (Skip) Garibaldi said ...

The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday's drawing, after no one won on Saturday, is up to $650 million as of 11:30 a.m. ET Monday. That is a pretty huge chunk of money. However,as we saw before Saturday's ...