Saturday’s chance at winning the Powerball jackpot is here.

The winning numbers were: 1, 16, 21, 29 and 40; the Powerball was 30.

There was no jackpot winner on Wednesday so the money has rolled up to $50 million, with a $33.4 million cash value.

There were 332,003 regular winners, and there was $2,492,731 in non-jackpot money awarded. There are a total of nine ways to win at Powerball and a 1 in 175,223,510.00 chance of winning the Grand Prize, and 1 in 5,153,632.65 of getting $1,000,0000.

Winning the really big money is not all that likely, but it seems to be a human thing to try for anyway.

As quoted in the Nautilus Newsletter, Robert Williams, a professor of health sciences at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta who just so happens to study the phenomena of lotteries, explains that the extreme rarity of winning a jackpot does not register with people.

“People just aren’t able to grasp 1 in 175 million,” says Williams, adding that, “It’s just beyond our experience -- we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

Williams says that in order to get the chances of winning down to 50 percent, a player would need to spend 12 hours a day filling out tickets for 55 years.

Essentially, a Powerball player would have have to put down $2 at least 86 million times. But that is just for the Grand Prize.

Players with less lofty goals could always just try to simply double their money on a $2 ticket, as the chances of getting $4 are 1 in 55.41

Be sure to check here for local stations broadcasting the Powerball drawing.