While a foreign concept to career winners LeBron James and Magic Johnson, new NBA lottery math means the Lakers should absolutely tank.

Americans making less than $30,000 a year are most likely to buy multiple lottery tickets each week, the study shows. These low earners spend 2.5 percent of their take-home pay on lottery tickets ...

It’s common knowledge these days that the odds of someone winning the lottery are pretty miniscule. An often-cited statistic is that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning and die than choose ...

If you're one of those weirdos who doesn't want us to have a draft lottery at all, congratulations – this year we kind of didn’t.Everyone stayed put, with the Sharks winning the first lottery ...

The 14th-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, $815 million, will be on the line in Wednesday’s Mega Millions drawing after no tickets with all six numbers were sold for 37 consecutive drawings.

He won the lottery 14 times using math. But his biggest jackpot still came down to luck Unfortunately, you can't use Stefan Mandel's scheme to win the $750 million Powerball jackpot.

A math professor from Fairfield University in Connecticut, who won $100,000 off the Powerball in 2016, was interviewed earlier this year about his secret to success.

Every day, lottery players win lottery games with extremely long odds. The odds of winning $1 million from a single Powerball ticket in Pennsylvania, for instance, are about one in 11.6 million.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For all the anticipation about whether someone will finally snag the gigantic Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, the games come down to two things: simple math — and ...

He gathered funds from thousands of investors and then waited for a pot big enough to justify his daring plan. In February 1992, he finally got it. The Virginia lottery had swelled to $27 million ...