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The odds of winning powerball are 1 in 146,107,962.

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And yet someone still wins.

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Someone wins powerball because there are millions of entrants playing several games each. Each powerball draw is equivalent to Empire holding a raffle hundreds of millions of times.

Have you ever seen the powerball numbers come 1,2,3,4,5,6? How about 2,4,6,8,10,12? These are the kind of odds we're talking about. However in this case we can see the draw happening (the balls getting tumbled around), so this would most likely be random and just a freak occurrence. In the Empire case, a software program or some employee written code is picking the numbers.