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You may want to think twice before plunking down even a paltry $2 to play Powerball this coming October, the 36-state lottery. LoHud.com reports that the odds of winning the top prize - historically anywhere from $2 million to $600 million -- will jump from 1 in 175,223,510 to 1 in 292,201,338.

Hope springs eternal for your chance to double your investment to $4 though, as the odds for that win just improved from 1 in 111 to 1 in 92. In fact, the likelihood of any players winning some kind of reward will get a boost to 1 in 25, up from 1 in 32.
Related: Don't Be Too Jealous of That Powerball Winner
Powerball currently asks players to choose from two fields of numbers: 59 in the first field, and 35 in the second. That all changes in October, when players will have to choose from 69 numbers in the first field and 26 numbers in the second.

Total 1363 draws since SAT 06/08/02 -- There are 166 hits

The new Powerball rules will increase the odds of winning any prize and decrease the odds of winning the big jackpot, effectively reducing the money for the top prize from 68 percent to 64 percent. Maybe the execs at Powerball want to spread the wealth in order to solve income inequality.

Yesterday, the New York State Gaming Commission, which oversees the game, approved the new rules which will go into effect with the October 7 th drawing later this year.

The Powerball jackpot hit a record $590.5 million in 2013, but sales have slumped since then. The lack of a huge jackpot led to a decline in Powerball sales of 19 percent in 2014. In New York alone, Powerball sales plummeted 44 percent, by $217 million.

By shifting the Powerball wealth, officials are hoping that more people will play and feel like a winner.

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New Powerball Rules Make It Harder to Win Big

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You may want to think twice before plunking down even a paltry $2 to play Powerball this coming October, the 36-state lottery. LoHud.com reports that the odds of winning the top prize - historically anywhere from $2 million to $600 million -- will jump from 1 in 175,223,510 to 1 in 292,201,338.

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Calculating the Odds of Winning Powerball

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A great video that explains how to calculate the odds of winning Powerball. Perfect for teachers as a math-in-real-life problem!

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Scratchcards | GameStore | The National Lottery

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Latest information on National Lottery Scratchcards.

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WHAT ARE YOUR chances of winning the Powerball

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News for what are your chances of winning the powerball OzarksFirst.com Powerball jackpot at $425M: Where's your best chance to win? CBS News ‎- 16 hours ago Wednesday's Powerball Lottery is estimated to be fourth largest in U.S. lottery history; some states have proven luckier than others.

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Some back-of-the-envelope maths regarding Luis Suarez: according to Wikipedia, he has played in 363 club league, cup and friendly matches since breaking through into the Nacional senior team in the 2005/06 season. He's also played 78 times for the Uruguay national team.

He has bitten three opposition players in the time it took him to play those 441 senior matches - PSV's Otman Bakkal in November 2010, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanović in April 2013, and now Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in the World Cup game on 24 June. This raises a crucial question: how much risk is a football player taking if Luis Suarez is on the opposition team? You've got to know the risks when you get involved in a contact sport, after all.

Let's crunch some numbers. Suarez's bite rate of three in 441 means we can expect him to take a bite out of someone every 147 matches, but if we assume that there are 14 players at risk of being bitten (that's 11 starting players and assuming three substitutes come on) that means Suarez has bitten three players out of the 6,160 who have lined up against him in his professional career.

We can therefore conclude that Luis Suarez has roughly a one in 2,000 chance of biting any individual opposition player. For comparison, the following things are less likely than being bitten by Luis Suarez:

And, conversely, the following things are more likely than being bitten while playing against Luis Suarez:

UPDATE: OK, as many people have pointed out, it's unreasonable to compare the 1/2000 chance for a professional player on the pitch facing off against Suarez to the shark attack chance, as it's an average of shark attack fatalities - not all attacks, only fatalities - for the entire United States (including lots of places where shark attacks never happen). Better to compare to a place where sharks live, and a swimmer is more likely than not to be in the water within a short distance of a shark: New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

A popular tourist and surfer destination, it has been called the " shark attack capital of the world" and has dozens of attacks per year - most of which are "nibbles" rather than life-threatening. The Global Shark Attack File has records of four attacks in the half year so far in 2014; the town's population was 22,464 as of the 2010 census. Assuming everyone in the town goes for a swim in the ocean at least once per year (or that it averages out to be effectively 22,464 swimmers per year), that gives us a figure of one in 2,808 swimmers getting bitten this year. New Smyrna Beach's record for the number of bites in a year is 28 in 2008; that would give us one in roughly 800 swimmers being bitten. The average is likely somewhere in the range between the two figures.

This means that Luis Suarez is almost exactly as likely to bite someone as a shark is in the very definition of "shark-infested" waters.

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You are more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez (1 in 2,000) than a shark (1 in 3,700,000)

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Some back-of-the-envelope maths regarding Luis Suarez: according to Wikipedia, he has played in 363 club league, cup and friendly matches since breaking through into the Nacional senior team in the 2005/06 season. He's also played 78 times for the Uruguay national team.