The next draw for the $1.3 billion Powerball lottery will take place on Wednesday night, but experts say the odds are not in your favor.

“The only way to increase your odds of winning is to buy more tickets,” Fairfield University Professor of Mathematics Nick Kapoor said. “This idea of hot numbers, and cold numbers, and more showed up in the last 20 digits. That’s all just marketing techniques.”

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A person buying one lottery ticket has a one in 292 million chance of winning, according to Powerball, which means you have a higher odd of getting struck by lightning, which is one in 15,300 in your lifetime, according to the National Weather Service.

Hypothetically, if a person were to buy all the possible lottery combin

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