UPDATE [11:12 p.m.]: The winning Mega Millions numbers were 1, 13, 26, 33, 52 and the gold Mega Ball number is 11.
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Which is harder to do, win the jackpot of the Powerball or Mega Millions lotteries, or pick a perfect NCAA basketball tournament bracket?
Not close, as it turns out.
The odds of predicting all the tournament games correctly are 1 in 128 billion, according to DePaul professor Jeff Bergen.
By comparison, the Mega Millions jackpot odds are 1 in 302.5 million, and for Powerball it’s 1 in 292.2 million, according to their respective websites.
Now that you know the odds, you should know that the lotteries’ combined jackpots are at $800 million — $455 million for Powerball and $345 million for Mega Millions.
That's a lot of money, but it's still behind the $1 billion-plus combined jackpot total from January.
The drawings for Mega Millions (Friday) and Powerball (Saturday) can be seen at 11 p.m., right before the Channel 2 Action News Nightbeat.
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