National Lottery website, your chances of winning a EuroMillions jackpot are one in 139,838,160. Long odds indeed.To provide some context to those odds, in the UK the chances of you being struck by lightning are one in 1.2million.
This means you are convincingly more likely to face the wrath of mother nature than boast a jackpot winning EuroMillions ticket - hardly welcome news, but it paints a picture of how 'difficult' winning the lottery can be.Alternatively, according to National Geographic your odds of being eaten by a shark are one in 3.7million.
Again, these odds are significantly 'better' than your lottery prospects.So, it would be fair to say that anyone preparing to purchase their last-minute ticket ahead of tonight's EuroMillions.
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