I've been hyping Jackpot Triple Play in this thread pretty good lately, but I just did something I've been wanting to do for a while with regard to the game.
I downloaded two PDF reports from The Florida Lottery's JPT page of their website and printed them out (They're not very many pages, because JPT has not been around that long to create significant history file like FF5 has) I downloaded The Top Prize Winner report and also the Winning Numbers History report.
I learned quite a bit about people's lottery knowledge/behavior as a result laying the two printed reports side by side on my desk. And much of what I learned aint good. As much as I hate to be cynical, people are sooooooooo dumb!!! But it's not their fault, they're tempted to take a chance to win what seems to them to be a boatload of money, so they go for it without having a clue about what they're doing.
As of last night, JPT has held 317 drawings. That's not a whole lot of drawings. And if you think you can win a million dollars (or more) by playing JPT, I can assure that you cant, and you wont. Just seven times in those 317 JPT drawings has any player ever won at least a million bucks. Most JPT jackpot winners have won far less than one million. Some have won less than $200,000!!! JPT carries odds of 3.1 million to 1 against you. And for those kinds of very tough odds, all they won was $197,000??? You might win more than $200 000 with FF5's 372,996 to 1 odds for that very same dollar bill you spent on JPT!
The majority of JPT drawings have had no jackpot winner. But when the game first started in February of 2019, it was easy for me to see that players did not understand how the game worked. There was a slew of tiny jackpot winners in the first six months of the game. Jackpots were being won every two or three drawings. From August 27, 2019 until September 20, 2019 six jackpots were won in eight drawings! The biggest amount was $435,000. Obviously, at the time, the lottery playing public did not understand the jackpot is reset every time somebody hits one. If they did understand that, they wouldn't have been playing the game.
Today, there is usually a pretty good chunk of time that passes until a jackpot is hit, so players have woken up and smelled the coffee. Even so, there are still way too many little jackpots for my liking. In 2021, a total of 14 jackpots were won in 104 drawings, so that's a rate of 13% per year. If you decide to play JPT, don't play it until the advertised jackpot is greater than one million, (even then it wont be the advertised one million if you take the cash option which is what everybody does) and know that if you do win a big jackpot, it will likely be less than a million dollars. G5
PS - here's a good example of a player not knowing what they were doing; Last year, one player won a $950,000 jackpot, and selected annual payments. The payments are spread out over 25 years, so they are getting a check once per year for $38,000 before taxes.....