So you think you're gonna win the lottery? Run this node script to see how lucky you are!

node_lottery.js

// based on standard powerball lotto of 69 balls for the first 5 and 26 for the "power ball"
// note that this could potentially run forever, running in node should take ~30min but be warned, the browser is much slower!

var _ = require('underscore');
var balls = [];
var powerball = [];
for(var i = 1; i < 70; i++) {
  balls.push(i);
}
for(i = 1; i < 27; i++) {
  powerball.push(i);
}
var legitLottery = function() {
  var count = 0;
  var magnitude = 10;
  while(true) {
    if (count % magnitude === 0) {
      if (count > magnitude * 10) {
        magnitude = magnitude * 10;
      }
      console.log('spent: ' + (count * 2).toLocaleString('en-US', {
        style: 'currency',
        currency: 'USD'
      }));
    }
    balls = _.shuffle(balls);
    // using the last powerball numbers - 16, 19, 32, 34, 57, 13
    if(balls[0] === 16 &&
      balls[1] === 19 &&
      balls[2] === 32 &&
      balls[3] === 34 &&
      balls[4] === 57) {
      powerball = _.shuffle(powerball);
      if(powerball[0] === 13) {
        break;
      }
    }
    count++;
  }
  console.log('You spent ' + (count * 2).toLocaleString('en-US', {
    style: 'currency',
    currency: 'USD'
  }));
  console.log('Your luck is 1 in ' + count);
  console.log('Given the 1.5B payout you made ' + (1500000000 - (count * 2)).toLocaleString('en-US', {
    style: 'currency',
    currency: 'USD'
  }));
}

console.time('lottery time');
legitLottery();
console.timeEnd('lottery time');

My first run took ~30min and cost $1.3B for a profit of ~63k