The Pelicans will try to become the first team in this format to win the lottery from the No. 4 pre-lottery slot Monday, carrying 12.5 percent odds of moving to the top of the draft board June 25 ...

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE (Associated Press) Powerball will match a record for lottery drawings Saturday night with a stretch of more than three months without a jackpot winner. It’s that string of ...

According to lottery officials, the odds of a $2 Powerball ticket hitting the jackpot are more than 292 million to 1. And the odds are high even to match five numbers and not the Powerball ...

Lottery odds drop 1.5% for the next three teams — Brooklyn, Toronto and San Antonio — before falling to 3.8% for the Phoenix Suns, who will send their pick to the Houston Rockets.

The odds of winning other prizes are far better — with the odds of winning a second-place $1 million prize at 1 in 12,607,306. Third-place prizes of $10,000 have odds of 1 in 931,001.

The odds are now 1 in 292 million against you winning the $1.5 billion jackpot. The last time the jackpot got that big, back in February 2015 , the odds of winning were "only" 1 in 175 million.

The Mega Millions odds are 1 in 302.6 million. That’s more than 2,000 times less likely than being killed by a lightening strike or an earthquake. Related: Powerball jackpot grows to $550 million ...

The overall odds of winning a smaller Powerball prize are 1 in 24.9, according to Powerball. That means 96% of the time you're going to lose $2, Glickman said.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. Believe it or not, you can win a Powerball prize with just a single ball being drawn, so long as your matching number is the Powerball.

There's a 1 in 24 chance of winning a prize of some kind in the drawing. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot for Friday ... Good luck overcoming the 12,607,306 to 1 odds, though.

Powerball will match a record for lottery drawings Saturday night with a stretch of more than three months without a jackpot winner. It's that string of futility that has enabled Powerball' ...