The odds may be astronomical but that's barely a detractor. 

After all, the Florida Lottery's tag line is "just imagine."

Well, imagine winning a $403 million Powerball jackpot. 

With no matching tickets last Saturday, the jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing rose above $400 million for the first time in nearly three months.

The top prize is an estimated $403 million if paid over 29 years or $244 million in cash. Winners then would have to pay taxes on their winnings.

OK, so it's not the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot that lured millions of lottery hopefuls last year but tonight's jackpot is nothing to sneeze at. 

But before you start dreaming of overcoming 1-in-292.2 million odds and cashing that check, here are 10 things that are more likely to occur than winning the lottery (Courtesy of the Book of Odds):

1. Dying from an asteroid strike: 1 in 74,817,414

2. Getting killed by a terrorist act in the United States: 1 in 10,000,000

3. Getting murdered during a trip to the Grand Canyon: 1 in 8,156,000

4. Dying from chronic constipation: 1 in 2,215,900

5. Becoming a movie star: 1 in 1,505,000

6. Getting struck by lightning: 1 in 1,101,000

7. Dying from a hornet, wasp or bee sting: 1 in 79,842

8. Bowling a 300 game: 1 in 11,500

9. Being the same height actor Hugh Jackman, who is 6-foot-2: 1 in 23.3

10. Becoming disabled, disfigured or killed by a parasite: 1 in 7.2

The game's six numbers will be drawn at 10:59 p.m. eastern time. Five white balls are drawn from a drum with 69 balls and a red ball is drawn from a drum with 26 balls.

Powerball is played in 44 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are incredibly small, at one in 292.2 million.

If there is no winner, the prize will increase before the next drawing Saturday night.

And while the odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 292,201,338, don’t tell these winners that:

 

Information from the Associated Press used in this report.