Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people who buy a Powerball ticket for Saturday’s gigantic $1.8 billion jackpot know their chances of winning a substantial ...

Get those lucky numbers ready. Powerball lottery players in California and across the nation have a chance to win the game's estimated $850 million jackpot when numbers are drawn today, Aug. 27.

The continued existence of lotteries is a demonstration of how little intuition humans have for probability. On some level, we all know that the chances of actually winning a life-changing payout are ...