hello everyone. I;ve been wondering. i know powerball and TN pick5 both have a long shot of winning top prize. But in reality which one gives you the best chance of winning the top prize. considering pick is just played in TN and powerball is a multi state game. Thanks in advance.

powerball would be your better bet because you still have a chance at matching all five numbers for 200,000 dollars and i think if you powerplay its a million dollars just for matching five numbers and best of all powerball is ball drawn.the pick 5 in tennessee is computerized which isn't a good thing.

The TN 5/39 game odds of winning is 1 in 575,757

The PB 5/59 game odds of winning is 1 in 5,006,386

Clearly your chances of winning are ten times better playing the 5/39 game.

If you were to buy two tickets with 10 unique numbers the odds of having all five winning numbers among the ten for a three number win or better would be . . .

TN 5/39 1 in 2,284

PB 5/59 1 in 19,866

You can determine this for yourself and try other quanities of numbers with the Odds Calculator on Lotto-Logix at

http://www.lotto-logix.com/wheeling_odds_calculator.html

BobP