Nick Kapoor knows the thrill of hitting winning Powerball numbers .

The mathematics professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut did just that in 2016 with a ticket he bought to show his statistics students how difficult it is to strike it big. Instead, he made it look easy, matching four of the five numbers plus the Powerball for a prize of $100,000.

“So the lesson didn’t really go according to plan,” he told NBC. “But it is a fun story and I still buy a lottery ticket and bring it into the classroom because it is very, very improbable for someone to win the lottery. It just so happened that that time it happened to be me."

With lots of competition out there, we wanted to know how to improve our chances of becoming a billionaire — or at least winning $100,000. Can past picks of

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