The odds of winning Saturday night's enormous Powerball jackpot are estimated at one in 292 million. That's just slightly better than the odds of you making all the lights on North Reserve at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday.

To put it in perspective, a stats expert compares those odds to flipping a coin and having it come up "heads" 28 times in a row. Regardless, there will be lots of lottery love for one of the biggest cash prizes ever.

Here's a tip from a mathematics professor: Let the computer make your picks randomly rather than choosing the numbers yourself. When people use birthdays or other favorite numbers, they often choose numbers 31 or smaller, which ignores the fact that there are 69 numbered balls.

Whatever your strategy, good luck! Well, not THAT good of luck, since I'm in there, too.

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