![]() Again, numbers that big are hard to make sense of, but let’s try. ![]() To be more specific, they are currently one in 303 million. The odds of that actually happening, however, remain ever not in your favour. That’s less than 1% of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ net worth, but it would still have been more than enough to buy Eidos Montreal from Square Enix and make them release a new Deus Ex. And then there is the Mega Millions jackpot which is already the third-largest in the history of state lotteries.Ī winner would get $US1,471,264 ($2,104,496) every two weeks for 29 years, or roughly $US747 million ($1.06B) minus taxes if they took the lump sum. Super Mario World is one billion seconds old today. There’s a telescope a million miles from Earth taking pictures of a gas giant 1,000 light years farther away. A Pokémon-inspired NFT game was hacked for over $US500 ($715) million in crypto this year. Sometimes the numbers get so big they stop meaning anything. These jackpots are the real world equivalent of a loot box, except the odds are 1,000 times worse and everyone loves them. The chances are indistinguishable from zero. It’s the kind of thing that’s nice to daydream about winning in-between scrolling TikTok and ignoring your boss, because of course you won’t win it. ![]() The US’ Mega Millions lottery is once again making headlines with a current jackpot worth $US1.28 ($2.28) billion.
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