Big Money Heading Our Way In New York

There are over a Billion dollars just floating out there for someone to claim.

The catch...of course, there is always a catch, is that you have to beat some crazy odds to claim it.

You have beat one in hundreds of millions odds to claim this catch. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning or getting eaten by a shark than claiming this money, but if you are lucky enough you could be really, really rich.

I am talking about winning the Powerball or Mega Millions lottery games. Currently, the combined jackpots of both games are over $1 Billion dollars.

At the time of this writing, the Powerball jackpot for Saturday Night's drawing was $925 million dollars. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

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The Mega Millions jackpot for tonight's drawing is $267 million dollars. The odds of winning the Mega Millions is around 1 in 302.6 million.

The odds are not in your favor, but if you match all the numbers your life would change in a blink.

To help you beat the odds, check out the most commonly drawn Powerball numbers since 2012.

Here are the most commonly drawn Mega Millions numbers since 2012.

If you want to add even more luck to your ticket, here are the three luckiest places to buy lottery tickets here in New York State.