TORONTO – OLG says the Lotto Max prize pool for Friday’s draw stands at 100 million dollars.
There’s the 50-million-dollar jackpot and 50 Maxmillions prizes up for grabs.
Since its launch in September 2009, Ontario Lotto Max players have won more than 1.4 billion dollars in prizes.
Ontario has seen 23 jackpot wins and 140 winners of million-dollar subsidiary jackpots.
The odds of winning either the main Lotto Max jackpot, or any of the individual Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each, are about one in 28.6 million. Now that your hopes of buying a Caribbean island and retiring before the age of 40 have likely significantly diminished, Global News takes a light-hearted approach by looking at a few things that are more likely to happen to you than winning the Lotto Max jackpot or any of the Maxmillion prizes.
Getting struck by lightning
The odds of being killed by lightning are generally less than one in a million. According to Environment Canada, lightning kills about 10 people a year and between 100 and 150 people are injured annually. While those numbers are relatively low, lightning does kill more Canadians a year than hail, wind, rain and tornadoes combined.
Death by fireworks
According to Livescience.com, the fact that the odds of you dying from fireworks discharge are about one in 615,488 are only worrisome when one suddenly finds Katy Perry’s ‘Fireworks’ lyrics a lot more frightening.
“You just gotta ignite the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July.
‘Cause baby you’re a firework
Come on, show ’em what you’re worth
Make ’em go “Oh, oh, oh”
As you shoot across the sky-y-y.”
Becoming a saint
Canonization is often a lengthy process that can take decades or even centuries to complete. After Mother Teresa’s death in 1997, many began to press the Vatican to waive the rule that prevents beginning the process of becoming a saint until five years after a candidate’s death. So feel free to scratch out “become a millionaire” and add “become a saint” to your bucket list as your chance of becoming one is a promising one in 20 million.
Attacked by a zombie
Sure, the statistics regarding the odds of you being assaulted by a zombie don’t exist (yet) but, based on calculations with no scientific merit, we think the chances of you getting attacked by a brain-eating animated corpse over winning the big bucks are pretty slim (for now).
– with a file from The Canadian Press
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