lottery odds
Ticket winning probability
Lottery odds are the probability of winning a lottery, typically expressed as a ratio like one in ten million.
The phrase usually emphasizes how vanishingly small these chances are: The lottery odds are stacked against you.
Someone might invoke lottery odds to describe any extremely unlikely outcome: Getting that promotion feels like lottery odds.
- powerballNumbered-ball jackpot drawing
- ticket windowCounter selling admission passes
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- combinationJoining of multiple elements
- likelihoodChance something will occur
expected value · jackpot · cognitive bias · astronomical · scratch card · sweepstakes · long shot · raffle · standard deviation · variance · one in a million · lightning strike · probability distribution · risk aversion · unlikely · gambler's fallacy · random variable · winning
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- lotteriesball machine, jackpot winner, drawing, random draw, weekly drawing
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
lottery oddscertainty
Total absence of doubt
sure thing · foregone conclusion · lock · slam dunk · inevitability