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The odds of winning a lottery like Lotto 6/49 are approximately one in 13,983,816 for each ticket. This number already indicates the extremely slim chance of winning even once.
According to Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery, the odds of winning the lottery twice are a staggering 283 billion to one.
An American TV show, “The Lottery Changed My Life,” suggests slightly more favorable odds at 419 million to one.
Jason Brown, a professor of mathematics and statistics at Dalhousie University, calculated the chance of winning the jackpot twice in seven years as about four in 10 billion.
He also humorously noted that if someone bought 100 tickets every week, it would take approximately 1,804 years for there to be a 50/50 chance of winning the big jackpot twice.
