In-state draw game gets branding refresh and a new midday drawing
By Kate Northrop
The Florida Lottery updated its Fantasy 5 draw game today, which includes a new daily drawing added to the schedule.
Today, the Florida Lottery held its first midday drawing for Fantasy 5, a locally drawn game that offers a top prize that rolls down to the next lowest prize tiers if there is no top prize winner.
Florida lottery players can now enter two Fantasy 5 drawings a day, reflected on updated play slips. Players may select one of three options: MID for the new midday drawing at 1:05 pm EST, EVE for the evening drawing at 11:15 pm EST, and BOTH for both midday and evening drawings.
Leaving this area blank on the play slip will automatically enter a ticket for the next available draw. Selecting BOTH will print two separate tickets from the terminal — one for the midday drawing and one for the evening drawing.
One player won the game's first-ever midday drawing top prize today, with one ticket laying claim to a top prize of $42,631.20. The winning numbers in today's midday drawing are 5, 6, 19, 23, and 28.
The game also now boasts a new, updated logo.
Fantasy 5 is played by selecting five numbers between 1 and 36 or by selecting the Quick Pick option to allow the terminal to randomly generate your numbers. Matching all five numbers will win the top prize, which is an estimated $100,000 but varies depending on game sales. The odds of matching all five numbers are 1 in 376,992.
If no one matches all five numbers, the top prize rolls down to the next prize tier in which there is a winning ticket and is shared equally among winners, with a maximum prize of $555 per winner. If the available rolldown exceeds the $555 per winner maximum in the 4-of-5 prize level, the Lottery explained, the excess funds in the prize pool rolls down and are share equally among the winners in the 3-of-5 level.
Players may also add the EZmatch feature to their ticket for an extra $1 per play, which prints a set of EZmatch numbers and corresponding prize amounts. Matching one of the five Fantasy 5 numbers with any of the EZmatch numbers printed on the ticket will instantly win the corresponding prize ranging from $2 to $500.
Players can purchase Fantasy 5 tickets up to 20 minutes before the applicable drawing and may purchase up to 30 consecutive days (60 consecutive drawings) using Advance Play.
Winning numbers and prize amounts can be found right after each drawing on Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page.
A jackpot lottery that now has a mid day drawing. WOW! I like. So one who tracks the numbers, can stick with a strategy and get paid quicker if the strategy is sound. Some get impatient and change things up instead of letting streaks play out. Just lower the amount played and wait it out.
I like this. Georgia's Fantasy 5 needs to do the same.
When I heard that Fantasy 5 had got a makeover yesterday afternoon, I thought it was getting the DoublePlay game similar to the Florida Lotto but with five drawn numbers instead of six, Orange DoublePlay balls instead of Pink, a second ball machine similar to Fantasy 5 instead of Lotto and Jackpot Triple Play, and a DoublePlay top prize of $20,000 (I would say $50,000 but the Midday prize may be lower than that and more than one person could win and the top prize may be less than $100,000)
Fantasy 5 wasn't selling tickets like they used to. As a result, the FL Lottery changed the game to get more players to spend more on the game. Let's see how that turns out. Remember Mega Money and Lucky Money? Games that no one cared about once the glamor was gone.
I stopped buying the Fantasy 5 tickets now that you are paying the same amount for a top prizes of 50% of previous amount. Same odds, just lower payouts.
"Same odds, just lower payouts."
That's precisely what happened. Maybe it will cause an uptick in ticket sales. Maybe it wont. That remains to be seen. Cant really tell right now because there is a "win $25 instantly" promotion going on.
The midday draw jackpots will be less than $100,000 while the evening drawing will see jackpots over $100,000. That tells me that the majority of players will pass on the midday draw in favor of the evening. And remember too that Fantasy5 is a pari-mutuel game and jackpots are divided equally among all winners if more than one. G5
Very true.
Fantasy5 jackpots were at one time were well over $200,000, but these days a $200,000 jackpot is huge. G5
Agreed.
California's Fantasy 5 game sometimes reaches $200,000 every now and then.
Hell, the Fantasy 5 Jackpot in California almost hit seven-figures one time before the Pandemic.
This is just a way for the state legislature to steal more money from the public.