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Well, I decided to call the Fla lottery today to get a much better understanding of winning numbers, who wins where and odd of winning ect... Today I decided to look at the reports of the winners mostly on fantasy 5 that play QP ( Quick Pick ) and win. and to my surprise there seem to be more winners via quick pick than those that pick their own numbers.
I wonder how many here if anyone has won on quick picks??
I played fantasy five tonight and on quick pick I got 3 out of five numbers I won 9 bucks BIG Winnings
I also played my numbers and got nothing.... Is there really a system to winning?? or is it just luck??
I was quite surprised that there were nearly 6 out of 10 that quick pick and some won upwards of 175,000.00 and some a bit more and some less
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Quote: Originally posted by mdc1022 on Mar 2, 2017
Well, I decided to call the Fla lottery today to get a much better understanding of winning numbers, who wins where and odd of winning ect... Today I decided to look at the reports of the winners mostly on fantasy 5 that play QP ( Quick Pick ) and win. and to my surprise there seem to be more winners via quick pick than those that pick their own numbers.
I wonder how many here if anyone has won on quick picks??
I played fantasy five tonight and on quick pick I got 3 out of five numbers I won 9 bucks BIG Winnings
I also played my numbers and got nothing.... Is there really a system to winning?? or is it just luck??
I was quite surprised that there were nearly 6 out of 10 that quick pick and some won upwards of 175,000.00 and some a bit more and some less
any thoughts on quick picking????
Did the people at the Fla Lottery tell you that the QP winnings is proportionally almost the same as QP purchases?
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Quote: Originally posted by mdc1022 on Mar 3, 2017
no, but the same can be said for those that pick their own numbers
but the amount of winners that quick pick was very surprising..One page had 20 winners listed and out of those 13 were quick picks....
I am actually surprised that the number of quick picks wasn't about 17-18.
It has been my observation that when the lotteries first started people thought about picking their own numbers ( birthdays etc) and keeping them ,but it wore off fast.
I very rarely see anyone actually present a play slip anymore as most just tell the clerk how many tickets and for what game.
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" the amount of winners that quick pick was very surprising"
Only if you've never paid any attention. MUSL has been telling people that 70 to 80% of winners come from QP's for at least a decade, and probably even longer.
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I've read that 75% of all tickets sold are QP's. If that's correct, (and IMHO, I think it's correct) then 25% of all tickets sold have to be player picks.
Therefore it's three times more likely that a winning ticket will come from the QP pool of sold tickets than from the player picked pool of sold tickets.G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Mar 3, 2017
I've read that 75% of all tickets sold are QP's. If that's correct, (and IMHO, I think it's correct) then 25% of all tickets sold have to be player picks.
Therefore it's three times more likely that a winning ticket will come from the QP pool of sold tickets than from the player picked pool of sold tickets.G5
so does that mean all these statistics and people picking numbers they think will win or those that use those other software ect... to try to get better odds really doesn't work well??
I went out today and purchased 25 fantasy five tickets ( for 5 days) to see over the next five days I can win? that's my 2 month budget for lotto... so I am OUT for 2 months unless I win. I just wonder if quick pick seems to be the way to go???
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Quote: Originally posted by mdc1022 on Mar 3, 2017
no, but the same can be said for those that pick their own numbers
but the amount of winners that quick pick was very surprising..One page had 20 winners listed and out of those 13 were quick picks....
The Florida Lottery sold 6 million PB tickets on 2/22 when the jackpot was over $400 million and sold 1.2 million on Wednesday. They don't give the actual percentage of QPs, but it's a good bet the majority of the extra 4.8 million tickets were QPs.
"the same can be said for those that pick their own numbers"
True and if Floyd's 70% to 80% PB QP ratio is correct than 20% to 30% of ticket sales are self picks.
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Quote: Originally posted by mdc1022 on Mar 3, 2017
so does that mean all these statistics and people picking numbers they think will win or those that use those other software ect... to try to get better odds really doesn't work well??
I went out today and purchased 25 fantasy five tickets ( for 5 days) to see over the next five days I can win? that's my 2 month budget for lotto... so I am OUT for 2 months unless I win. I just wonder if quick pick seems to be the way to go???
I think it simply means more people prefer to buy QP's rather than self-pick numbers.
It's very fast and easy to say "Gimme two dollars QP for tonites Fantasy Five" than to stare at a play slip and have no idea which five numbers to pick. My guess is that most people don't follow or track the numbers very closely, and they feel that it's all just luck anyway, so they don't want to be bothered with choosing numbers to play.
There are other people that have a particular set of "lucky numbers" they always like to play, so they fill out a play slip and use it every time they play.
Then there are players like me. I have lottery software that I use to chose numbers. Has it won me any money? I guess it has, but I've never won a huge jackpot using it. Here in New York, players can do a "partial-QP". If I'm playing Take5 (a 5/39 game) and I only pick three numbers on my bet slip, the terminal will pick the other two. I did that for tonite's Take5 drawing. I bought ten lines ($10) and picked three numbers I liked for each line. The lottery terminal picked the other two numbers to complete each line on my ticket with five numbers. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by mdc1022 on Mar 3, 2017
so does that mean all these statistics and people picking numbers they think will win or those that use those other software ect... to try to get better odds really doesn't work well??
I went out today and purchased 25 fantasy five tickets ( for 5 days) to see over the next five days I can win? that's my 2 month budget for lotto... so I am OUT for 2 months unless I win. I just wonder if quick pick seems to be the way to go???
To get a real answer one would have to break a part the 25% of people who pick their numbers manually into distinct groups to see whether they fall under:
Just prefer to pck their own numbers
Have a set of "lucky" numbers such as a birthday that they like to play
Pick their own numbers based on a predictive strategy
That would be the only way to measure whether or not people who employ a strategy are more successful than people who don't. Unfortunately that data is not available so the only thing one can do is speculate.
As other people have pointed out, just the sheer volume of people who choose QP over manually picking numbers guarantees that they will claim a majority of the jackpots.
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Quote: Originally posted by Novan60 on Mar 3, 2017
To get a real answer one would have to break a part the 25% of people who pick their numbers manually into distinct groups to see whether they fall under:
Just prefer to pck their own numbers
Have a set of "lucky" numbers such as a birthday that they like to play
Pick their own numbers based on a predictive strategy
That would be the only way to measure whether or not people who employ a strategy are more successful than people who don't. Unfortunately that data is not available so the only thing one can do is speculate.
As other people have pointed out, just the sheer volume of people who choose QP over manually picking numbers guarantees that they will claim a majority of the jackpots.
I agree with you, But if you look around on google and search for quick pick lotto you find alot of things... there were a few that claim if you quick pick your throwing your money away.............. well I see hundreds of quick picks and many winners on the lottery website ( Fla) they show the number of quick picks and there are alot of winners.............