How many Powerball millionaires won in Kansas? And what are YOUR odds?

There’s a 1 in 292 million chance of winning a Powerball jackpot. But how many Kansans have already been made millionaires by the game?

Since 1993, 31 people and two groups living or buying tickets in the Sunflower state have turned in winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million or more, according to information posted on the Kansas Lottery’s website.

Their total winnings: $381,600,000.

The lucky folks are from two dozen places in Kansas, including four living in Sedgwick County. One group of winners were from Oklahoma but bought their tickets here.

Nearly half opted to collect their winnings in anonymity. The biggest Powerball winner from the state so far – a retired truck driver from Great Bend – won $96.6 million in 2009.

Wednesday’s top prize – the ninth largest in the game’s history – is an estimated $430 million with a cash option of $273.4 million. All you have to do is match six numbers to win.

Overall, you have a 1 in 24.87 chance of winning something if you play. The smallest prize is $4.

The Kansas Lottery sold $272,261,224 in tickets across all of its games in its last fiscal year. It paid out $149,709,855 in prizes, lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford said.

Top Powerball ticket sales by county (July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017):

▪ Johnson - $ 8,551,720

▪ Sedgwick - $6,647,684

▪ Shawnee - $2,619,316

▪ Wyandotte - $2,050,108

▪ Douglas - $1,176,265

▪ Leavenworth - $1,035,992

▪ Saline - $813,582

▪ Butler - $760,985

▪ Reno - $698,337

▪ Geary - $605,839

▪ Total statewide: $36,895,421

Who’s sold Powerball tickets worth $1 million or more so far this year:

▪ Casey’s General Store 281, Atchison - $1 million

▪ Green Light 838, Kansas City - $1,000,004

▪ Casey’s General Store, Lyons - $1 million

▪ Fuel Expresso 15, Paola - $2 million

The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are staggering. According to various sources, you’re more likely to:

▪ Die by lighting strike (1 in 161,856) or asteroid strike (1 in 74.8 million)

▪ Be killed by a dog (1 in 112,400) or a hornet, wasp or bee (1 in 63,225) or a vending machine (1 in 112 million) or falling coconut (1 in 250 million)

▪ Get attacked by a shark (1 in 3.7 million)

▪ Sink a hole in one on your birthday (1 in 25,000)

▪ Become a movie star (1 in 1.5 million)

▪ Bowl a perfect game (1 in 11,500)

▪ Have quintuplets naturally (1 in 60 million)

But you’re more likely to walk away with the Powerball jackpot than:

▪ Shuffling a truly randomized deck of cards back into perfect order, odds of which are 1 in 10 to the 68th power (that’s a 1 followed by 68 zeros) according to one estimate posted on www.sciencefocus.com

▪ Filling out a perfect March Madness bracket, odds of which are somewhere between 1 in a billion and 1 in 9.2 quintillion depending on whom you ask

(Sources: www.nsc.org, www.cbsnew.com, www.time.com, www.fivethirtyeight.com, www.si.com, www.forbes.com and www.sciencefocus.com)

This story was originally published August 15, 2017 at 6:58 PM with the headline "How many Powerball millionaires won in Kansas? And what are YOUR odds?."