🃏 Royal flush (5-card poker) vs ⚡ Struck by lightning
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You're 42.5× more likely to be struck by lightning
than to get a royal flush
Periods differ: Struck by lightning is framed as lifetime (US), while Royal flush (5-card poker) is per 5-card hand. The multiplier is a raw ratio of the 1-in-X figures — not a normalized lifetime risk. Compare cautiously.
How we calculated this
Each figure is “1 in X.” The larger X is the rarer event. Dividing that number by the more common one gives the multiplier: you're 42.5× more likely to be struck by lightning. When the periods differ, this is a raw ratio of those figures, not a lifetime-normalized risk.
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You're 42.5× more likely to be struck by lightning (1 in 15,300, lifetime (US)) than to get a royal flush (1 in 649,740, per 5-card hand). ⚠️ Periods differ (lifetime (US) vs per 5-card hand) — compare cautiously. — How Likely Is That? https://www.howlikelyisthat.com/compare/odds-of-a-royal-flush-vs-odds-of-being-struck-by-lightning
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