Mega Millions Lottery Once Again make headlines with a current jackpot of $1.28 billion. It’s a great thing to fantasize about winning between scrolling TikTok and ignoring your boss, because of course you won’t win it. Chances are indistinguishable from zero. These jackpots are the real world equivalent of a loot box, except the odds are 1,000x worse and everyone loves them.
Sometimes the numbers are so big that they no longer make any sense. One Pokémon-Inspiring NFT game hacked for more than 500 million dollars in crypto this year. There is a telescope a million miles from Earth that takes pictures of a gas giant More than 1,000 light years away. Super Mario World To be one billion seconds old today. And then there’s the Mega Millions jackpot, which is already the third-largest in the state’s lottery history.
Winners will receive $1,471,264 biweekly for 29 years, or about $747 million tax-deductible if they receive a lump sum. That’s less than 1% of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ net worth, but it’s still more than enough to buy Eidos Montreal from Square Enix and make them release a Deus Ex. However, the possibility of that actually happening is still not in your favor.
More specifically, they are currently one in 303 million. Again, big numbers are confusing, but let’s try. Here’s a bunch of extremely rare things in video games that will happen before you even land a winning lottery ticket.
Some players ran Fate 2Vault of Glass Raid more than 200 times without ever getting its coveted Vex Mythoclast Exotic. Despite what seemed like an impossible task to them, everyone has a one in 100 shot at getting it on their first try.
You have an even better chance of getting the Sword of Kings in Earthbound the first time you kill Starman Super than win this lottery. In fact, you have a higher chance of getting it three times in a row. It has a drop rate of one in 128. I’ve played the game dozens of times and only encountered it once.
Rate received The Genshin effectPyro Diluc 5 stars also better. The rare fan favorite has a drop rate of about 1 in 166. In fact, most games with gacha mechanics are incredibly generous by comparison. Every time you pull in The Genshin effect only slightly more expensive than the $2 Mega Millions ticket.
Princess Peach will most likely pull the Beam Sword out of her pocket in Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.. The probability is one in 768. If she immediately draws the second, there’s still a higher chance you’ll win the Mega Millions.
Big Love Rocket, renamed X-45 Heartbreaker last year, is one of the most notorious rarity mounts in the series. World of Warcraft. Although numbers like 1-2% were thrown around when it debuted during the 2006 “Love is in the Air” event, players estimate it to be much rarer, roughly calculating one of 3,333 reduced chance.
Shiny Pokémon hunters are famous for spending days, weeks and sometimes even longer Hunt down the rarest creatures. It’s even a step in comparison. Shiny odds are one in 4,096. Some players whispered about the wonderful prospect of the two going head-to-head. The odds of that would be better.
Let’s stick with Pokémon in one second. When Pokémon The trading card game that started in 1996 has only four rarities, including cards. Now there are all sorts of other unique layers. Just as an example, the Astral Radiance set released earlier this year includes 18 Secret Rare cards with gold finish. The odds of getting one are estimated to be one in 128. The odds of getting a specific one in a given pack, like Hisuian Samurott VSTAR, are estimated to be one in 1,178. You’ll do that trick twice before you become a billionaire.
The most common comparison for lottery odds is being hit by light. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates those odds to be less one in a million. But the possibility of being struck by lightning inside Minecraft even more dramatic. In a map with 16,384 blocks and a one in 5,000 chance of lightning hitting one of them during a storm, the chances of that happening are very low. one in 81 million won of lightning striking the player. Still a better bet than Mega Millions.
Ultimately, however, someone out there still has the potential to win the lottery. There are over 100 million households in this country, and some people are sure to buy dozens if not more tickets. And their odds are still better than finding one of the rarest pieces of loot in Borderlands. In July a Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands players have found a class mod with only one in 85 billion chance to fall. The next Mega Millions draw is tonight at 11 p.m. ET.
