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GiveFive

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Dec 9, 2025, 11:19 am

Thanks for the input... though I'm not much of a Pick2 3 or 5 player.

Players sometimes say "There are more jackpot wins with QP's than Player picks".. but that's because 75% of the online games tickets sold are QP's. Another reason I like the "partial QP" is because I want to cover both bases, QP's and Player Picks.

As of last night's Evening FF5 drawing #'s 24 and 29 are tied for the lead with six hits each. These four numbers have yet to be drawn in December - 1, 12, 32 & 34.

#24 and #29 are both adjacents from last nights drawing (they're adjacent to #25 & #28 from last night) and there hasn't been a repeater since Sunday night's Evening draw so I'll play partial QP's using numbers 10, 18, 22, 24, 25, 28, & 29 mixing in 1, 12, 32, & 34 in today's Midday draw. G5

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Dec 9, 2025, 10:58 pm

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Dec 10, 2025, 10:30 am

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 9, 2025
Thanks for the input... though I'm not much of a Pick2 3 or 5 player.

Players sometimes say "There are more jackpot wins with QP's than Player picks".. but that's because 75% of the online games tickets sold are QP's. Another reason I like the "partial QP" is because I want to cover both bases, QP's and Player Picks.

As of last night's Evening FF5 drawing #'s 24 and 29 are tied for the lead with six hits each. These four numbers have yet to be drawn in December - 1, 12, 32 & 34.

#24 and #29 are both adjacents from last nights drawing (they're adjacent to #25 & #28 from last night) and there hasn't been a repeater since Sunday night's Evening draw so I'll play partial QP's using numbers 10, 18, 22, 24, 25, 28, & 29 mixing in 1, 12, 32, & 34 in today's Midday draw. G5

Well, there was no #24 or #29 last night but I managed to hammer out a Free Ticket using 10, 18, 22, 25, & 28 combined with playing 1, 12, 32 & 34.

I won it because I picked #18 and the terminal picked #7. That's beauty of playing partial QP's. G5

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Dec 10, 2025, 12:44 pm
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Dec 10, 2025, 1:32 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ScreamingMidget on Dec 10, 2025

#29 is a flamethrower but #24 isn't?

Both numbers have 6 hits and are tied for the lead in the 18 drawings that have been held in December. Why wouldn't #24 be included with the flamethrowers?

I'm not trying to be critical of your software. I rarely if ever use other players tools/strategies. I prefer to use my own techniques instead. I can see you put some time and effort into creating your tool, and if you like it, then you should stick with it. You might be very happy that you did. G5

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Dec 10, 2025, 2:19 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 10, 2025
#29 is a flamethrower but #24 isn't?

Both numbers have 6 hits and are tied for the lead in the 18 drawings that have been held in December. Why wouldn't #24 be included with the flamethrowers?

I'm not trying to be critical of your software. I rarely if ever use other players tools/strategies. I prefer to use my own techniques instead. I can see you put some time and effort into creating your tool, and if you like it, then you should stick with it. You might be very happy that you did. G5

it's not simply just "hot" and "cold" numbers. I have a lot, a lot of calculations and methods and systems all running together in the background.

I'm constantly working on it. I'm also making it pretty much autopilot as well. Lottery results have "trends" and trends shift. We could go one draw with all singles/low balls, for like 2 or 3 draws in a row. Or it could be one draw, then shift to all hight balls in 20's - 30's. My system tries to adapt to trends, and predicts based on history. You have SUM ranges, Pairs, triads(although more difficult) like which balls like to be paired together the most. You have what's called Bar Bell, meaning lower end(first like 2 or 3 balls) and higher end (last 2 or 3 balls) like to repeat or stay a trend while the middle changed. Then there's the pool of hottest numbers, coldest, and another part of my system just randomly throws these together(lower ranked lines on the hotsheet). There's a whole lot that goes into it lol. I'm constantly back testing, and I hit a 4ball match by design, and not random, earlier this week.

I'll give a little behind the scenes look.

I have a dashboard as well. It compares the current generated lines to previous real live draws. I'm not showing the whole thing, as it might give away something. Here's a crop:

As you can see, if I had played all of these lines for the last 10 draws, I would have had 3 or 4ball match.

Now let's pretend the next draw came out, using same lines:

Here's the "draw result"

This is one of the hardest parts about my system. Trying to improve the logic to merge those lines. I have all 5 balls........Just need to tweak the settings and logic to merge them together.

At the end of the day, we have to remember, lottery is "random". But it's still fun to at least try.
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Dec 10, 2025, 2:27 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ScreamingMidget on Dec 10, 2025

Again, another case of the dang merging logic.
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Dec 11, 2025, 8:57 am

Took a look at Jackpot Winners and Retailers Information Report for FF5 on The Florida Lottery's website this morning because I haven't looked at it since I dunno when.

Midday drawing jackpots are all over the place in terms of prizes won, but lately, if you hit a jackpot by yourself in The Evening Draw, you could win approximately $110,000. If you are the lone winner of a midday draw, then you'll win less than half of $110,000. Then of course The Lottery is going to withhold income taxes from your winnings because you gotta pony up to Uncle Sam....

This is why I rarely ever buy a ticket for The Midday drawing. FF5's odds are the same for either drawing, and Lord knows how hard it is to hit a jackpot. (And if you do happen to hit a midday jackpot, then that'll very likely be the ONE AND ONLY jackpot you'll ever win for the rest of your life!)

I can't understand why players buy tickets for the midday drawing, but they do. Unbelievable. G5

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Dec 11, 2025, 7:55 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 11, 2025
Took a look at Jackpot Winners and Retailers Information Report for FF5 on The Florida Lottery's website this morning because I haven't looked at it since I dunno when.

Midday drawing jackpots are all over the place in terms of prizes won, but lately, if you hit a jackpot by yourself in The Evening Draw, you could win approximately $110,000. If you are the lone winner of a midday draw, then you'll win less than half of $110,000. Then of course The Lottery is going to withhold income taxes from your winnings because you gotta pony up to Uncle Sam....

This is why I rarely ever buy a ticket for The Midday drawing. FF5's odds are the same for either drawing, and Lord knows how hard it is to hit a jackpot. (And if you do happen to hit a midday jackpot, then that'll very likely be the ONE AND ONLY jackpot you'll ever win for the rest of your life!)

I can't understand why players buy tickets for the midday drawing, but they do. Unbelievable. G5

Yeah I've noticed that as well. I also noticed a lot of the jackpot winners can come from free tickets. Maybe people are just too tired after work to play evening, IDK. I treat both draws separate though in my system.
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Dec 11, 2025, 8:01 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 11, 2025
Took a look at Jackpot Winners and Retailers Information Report for FF5 on The Florida Lottery's website this morning because I haven't looked at it since I dunno when.

Midday drawing jackpots are all over the place in terms of prizes won, but lately, if you hit a jackpot by yourself in The Evening Draw, you could win approximately $110,000. If you are the lone winner of a midday draw, then you'll win less than half of $110,000. Then of course The Lottery is going to withhold income taxes from your winnings because you gotta pony up to Uncle Sam....

This is why I rarely ever buy a ticket for The Midday drawing. FF5's odds are the same for either drawing, and Lord knows how hard it is to hit a jackpot. (And if you do happen to hit a midday jackpot, then that'll very likely be the ONE AND ONLY jackpot you'll ever win for the rest of your life!)

I can't understand why players buy tickets for the midday drawing, but they do. Unbelievable. G5

They ruined the game by adding a midday draw. When they had just an evening draw the jackpot was always around 200K.

Good Luck, Chris
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Dec 11, 2025, 10:17 pm
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Quote: Originally posted by ScreamingMidget on Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 14, 2025, 4:08 pm

Quote: Originally posted by chris632 on Dec 11, 2025
They ruined the game by adding a midday draw. When they had just an evening draw the jackpot was always around 200K.

Good Luck, Chris

Couldn't agree more if I had to.

The thing I can't understand is how did The Florida Lottery benefit from adding a midday drawing? They said they were doing it for the players, but that's pure BS. No business does anything without something in it for themselves. I seriously doubt they saw an uptick in the amount of money they were taking in by adding the midday drawing. If anything, I think some players stopped playing Fantasy5 because of the hit to the size of jackpots. IMHO that lowers their profits. G5

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Dec 14, 2025, 4:31 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 14, 2025
Couldn't agree more if I had to.

The thing I can't understand is how did The Florida Lottery benefit from adding a midday drawing? They said they were doing it for the players, but that's pure BS. No business does anything without something in it for themselves. I seriously doubt they saw an uptick in the amount of money they were taking in by adding the midday drawing. If anything, I think some players stopped playing Fantasy5 because of the hit to the size of jackpots. IMHO that lowers their profits. G5

I'm sure they did it thinking it would increase sales but really it backfired. For some reason it split the players between midday and evening reducing that evening jackpot. I usually only play 2 sets (one set I've been playing for 20+ years) so I play both draws.

Good Luck, Chris
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