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The odds of winning Fantasy 5 are 376,992 to one. For one dollar you have a chance to win between $4,581 (lowest prize ever with 47 winners) to a prize over $200,000. I realize the instant gratification of a scratch off beats waiting around to see if you won the next day. But if you are bucking odds near the million and over mark to win say $1M or more that's different.
I have 3 filled out Fan 5 tickets that I kept from over the past years ($10 each where if I did buy that day I would have won the top prize. Two were rolldowns. I did get dozens of 4 out of 5's - and many were from a rolldown with a $555 prize.
Checking a lot of scratchers $2 etc to approximate the odds of 376,992/1 winning a decent prize - the Fan 5 seems to be a much better buy.
The Ville, FL United States
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Sep 7, 2011
The odds of winning Fantasy 5 are 376,992 to one. For one dollar you have a chance to win between $4,581 (lowest prize ever with 47 winners) to a prize over $200,000. I realize the instant gratification of a scratch off beats waiting around to see if you won the next day. But if you are bucking odds near the million and over mark to win say $1M or more that's different.
I have 3 filled out Fan 5 tickets that I kept from over the past years ($10 each where if I did buy that day I would have won the top prize. Two were rolldowns. I did get dozens of 4 out of 5's - and many were from a rolldown with a $555 prize.
Checking a lot of scratchers $2 etc to approximate the odds of 376,992/1 winning a decent prize - the Fan 5 seems to be a much better buy.
What's your take ?
Out of all of the FL Lottery games, Fantasy5 is probably my favorite. It seems the most attainable vs scratchers. Over the past 2 years I've been following patterns of Fantasy 5 very closely and only play when I feel a "pattern" is due. Once I get locked on a due pattern, I will play that pettern until it hits. That narrows down my odds and gives me the ability to have a better chance.
Although any # can hit any night, I firmly believe it's best to play patterns, because once that pattern does hit, you have increased your odds for that draw if you only play certain #'s/patterns.
Although I like the instant gratification of scratchers, I usually mix up some scratchers with about $10 bux worth of Fantasy5. That way if I lose on the scratchers, I know I still have a chance that night with Fantasy5.
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I bet if you pluck down $100 per drawing you can nail this sucker within a year, or get very close lots of times. i see constantly the signs hanging around in publix stores where people hit the jackpot.
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Quote: Originally posted by James1 on Sep 7, 2011
I bet if you pluck down $100 per drawing you can nail this sucker within a year, or get very close lots of times. i see constantly the signs hanging around in publix stores where people hit the jackpot.
Hey James that would be like $36,500 a year ! I know of 4 people who won. 2 were around $50K (split pot) 1 was the top prize that day ($179K) the other is a guy who is a bud and bought 20 QP's every Sat night. He won some $60K (split pot) and was playing just for a year. ($1,040 total) It's always the battle between your own #'s and QP's as to which one is the best.
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Sep 7, 2011
Hey James that would be like $36,500 a year ! I know of 4 people who won. 2 were around $50K (split pot) 1 was the top prize that day ($179K) the other is a guy who is a bud and bought 20 QP's every Sat night. He won some $60K (split pot) and was playing just for a year. ($1,040 total) It's always the battle between your own #'s and QP's as to which one is the best.
Did you ever play ?
I sometimes play but not religiously. ive hit 4 out of 5 2-3 times.
I know a guy who plays $1K per week F5 he hit it once for $117K. he hits loads of 4 of 5
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Sep 7, 2011
The odds of winning Fantasy 5 are 376,992 to one. For one dollar you have a chance to win between $4,581 (lowest prize ever with 47 winners) to a prize over $200,000. I realize the instant gratification of a scratch off beats waiting around to see if you won the next day. But if you are bucking odds near the million and over mark to win say $1M or more that's different.
I have 3 filled out Fan 5 tickets that I kept from over the past years ($10 each where if I did buy that day I would have won the top prize. Two were rolldowns. I did get dozens of 4 out of 5's - and many were from a rolldown with a $555 prize.
Checking a lot of scratchers $2 etc to approximate the odds of 376,992/1 winning a decent prize - the Fan 5 seems to be a much better buy.
What's your take ?
I don't play lotto anymore, just scratch off. The odds of winning ANYTHING with lotto is pretty remote while the odds of winning something from scratch off is quite high. I won like 50 bucks 7 times already but never won more than 2 bucks from lotto.
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im in CA and i play the fantasy5 almost every night and also buy scratchers regularly but i like to play the fantasy 5 here more cuz the odds are 1 in 575,757 and the odds of hitting top prize on almost all of the scratchers $2 and above here is 1 in 600,000 and above and the top prize is always smaller than the fantasy5 except in a few of the $5 games we have but the odds of hitting top prize on those is 1 in 1,200,000, just based on the odds compared to scratchers i like fantasy 5 and i have hit 4 out of 5 numbers 4 times and got 3 of 5 many times and scratchers i can go months or years between $100+ winners and i play 1-2 scratchers almost every day.