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Megabucks vs. state lottery

Is it reasonable to assume that one has a better chance of hitting the $1 Megabucks jackpot than the TX State Lottery (or any other state's lottery? Does anyone know the Megabucks odds?

Thanks for any insight/help.

From the websites of both the Texas & Mega Millions lotteries: How to Win
Texas Lotto and Odds of Winning

To win you must have one of the following matches against the number
actually drawn:

   1. Match 6 (Jackpot Win!) Odds = 1:25,827,165
   2. Match 5 Odds = 1:89,678
   3. Match 4 Odds = 1:1,526
   4. Match 3 Odds = 1:75

Overall Odds of a win is 1:71

Mega Millions odds:

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM, aprvp78748 <roaches@austin.rr.com> wrote:

Is it reasonable to assume that one has a better chance of hitting the $1
Megabucks jackpot than the TX State Lottery (or any other state's lottery?
Does anyone know the Megabucks odds?

Thanks for any insight/help.