Odds for choosing Mega Million Number

If you are lucky to live in one state that offers the game of Mega Millions - California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington - You have the opportunity to playing a lottery that offers huge jackpots, often reaching hundreds of millions of dollars range. Would not it be nice to win? You could live a life of luxury. But how difficult it is to win? What are the odds of choosing the Mega Millions Winning Numbers?

Having a winning ticket is not an easy task. In fact, the odds of picking the correct numbers Mega Millions are about 1-in-175-million. In other words, there are 175 million different combination of numbers you could choose. That's a lot of numbers. Fortunately, there is a system that helps you decide the numbers.

There are two levels of awards in other Mega Millions to pay a pretty decent amount. Second prize pays $ 250,000 and wanted to buy the set of all five numbers. The odds of matching the first five numbers correctly are approximately 1 in 3.9 million dollars, which means that about of 3,900,000 different combinations that could be elected.

The third prize is paid $ 10,000 not bad. You earn that amount per set 4-out-of-5 white balls plus the yellow ball. The odds of winning the $ 10,000 prize are approximately 1-in-15,000.

As you can see the odds of winning the Mega Millions lottery are not very large. People in the game, not because of the odds, but because of the enormous amount pot. If you play this great game, good luck to you in your future lies!