Powerball is Adding More Numbers to Lower Your Odds of Winning

If you've never won a big Powerball jackpot, good luck winning it now, because it just got a lot harder.

The lottery commissioners just approved a plan to increase your odds of winning from one in 175 million to one in 292 million.

Here's how Powerball will become tougher to win starting October 7, 2015.

• 10 more balls are being added to the mix. So now instead of picking five numbers between one and 59, the range is one and 69.
• You also have to pick your sixth number as the special Powerball. That used to be between one and 35, now it's going to be between one and 26.
• More people will now get smaller prizes like $4 for just getting the Powerball number.

And when you get a little win like $4, you usually just use it to buy more tickets. For more on these changes, see the article USA Today put together.