I got this dumb Publishers clearing house flyer in the mail. I get how the prize money works, but I don’t understand where those odds come from. It’s not like everyone in the world is going to enter the contest. Do they just have to publish *something* so they pick a ridiculous number?
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The number of people entering has nothing to do with the odds of winning. The odds of winning are just the number of ways to win (1) divided by the number of ways to play (6.2 million). According to Publisher’s Clearing House, they use a random draw so there’s one winner (for that prize) in the pool of things to choose, and 6.2 million things in the pool.
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