Classic Lotto From Ohio Lottery - What Will be the Odds of Winning the Jackpot?
The Classic Lotto game from Ohio Lottery offers some big jackpots. Jackpots start at $1 million and could sometimes reach into the tens of millions of dollars level. Winning the jackpot in the game could really change your lifestyle for the better. But perhaps you have thought about what the odds of winning the jackpot actually are? Keep reading to get out.The Classic Lotto game from Ohio Lottery uses the favorite 6/49 format. Which means that to win the jackpot, you should match all six numbers drawn, out of a possible forty-nine. The odds of getting all six numbers are approximately 1-in-14-million. Quite simply, you will find 14 million different combinations of numbers that would be drawn in any one draw.
Seems quite difficult to win, doesn't it? Needless to say, it is. Ohio lottery winning numbers are designed to be difficult to win. However, in the event that you compare it to Ohio Lottery's biggest game, Mega Millions, it doesn't seem so bad. The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is approximately 1-in-175-million. Which means, if you get just one ticket for each lottery, you are about 12.5 times more prone to win the jackpot on the Classic Lotto ticket. Relatively, it doesn't seem so bad anymore, does it?
Needless to say, you will find other, smaller, prizes that you might win on Classic Lotto as well. Small prizes range from $2 in the event that you match 3-out-of-6 numbers to $1500 in the event that you match 5-out-of-6 numbers. The odds of winning any prize in the game are 1-in-40.
