WKYC: Peter Thomas, professor of mathematics at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the odds of winning the Powerball lottery, as the jackpot exceeded $1 billion.

A photo that shows the math of the Powerball winnings divided by the population of the United States went viral earlier today but people soon realized this math was wrong. The image appears to have ...

The headline number on the latest Powerball jackpot is designed to dazzle, but the tax code quietly slices that figure into something far more ordinary. An advertised $875 million prize can shrink by ...

Pay $2, pick six numbers, and you could win $1.8 billion on Saturday night. So at least promises the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball lottery. The jackpot is the second ...

For those who match all five white balls and the red Powerball, the key numbers are the $1.5 billion jackpot, paid out over 29 years or as an immediate $930 million in cash payment. But 39.6 percent ...

The Powerball jackpot hit $1 billion—the second biggest lottery prize of 2025 so far—after no tickets matched all six numbers drawn on Wednesday night, although the eventual winner will take home a ...

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