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Well I guess you're surprised today too because once again there were 6 winners!
At first, I thought that there was one winner who bought the same line/combo multiple times, or that they were players picking numbers using their kids birthdays. Then I looked at the Top Prize Winners Report. Four of the six winners were QP's!! That almost removes the kids birthdays from the equation. My guess is the two player picked winners used their kids birthdays, but the QP's, cant be players using their kids birthdays.
I've always wondered something about QP's and that's this; How many identical lines are created everyday as QP's? Or said another way, out of all the Quick Pick FF5 lines The Florida Lottery generates each day, how many of them are truly unique? I'm willing to bet that if they sell 600,000 lines every day, the percentage of lines that are truly unique (only one player picked that particular combo or only one QP combo was created) is a lot smaller than we think it is. Remember, just because a player picked/bought lines with his own numbers, there is no guarantee that some other player located elsewhere in Florida has not picked and bought the same set of five numbers. (picked the same exact combo as you did) And... all those lottery terminals through out Florida could have generated the same exact combo you picked.
So is that percentage of truly unique lines/combo's 50%, or is it 30%? My guess it's closer to 30% than it is 50%. If 75% of all combos sold every day were unique, then we'd see a lot more jackpots won by just one person than we actually do. The vast majority of FF5 jackpots are shared among multiple players. So far in 2022, there have been 89 FF5 players that have hit a jackpot, but only 8 have not had to share it with anyone else. (81 had to share their jackpot win)
JPT tonight. I'm buying five tickets and am hoping for the best. G5
PS This might sound a little crazy, but I'm half tempted to use The Florida Lottery's website and send them an "Ask The Lottery" question. I'd ask them how many total lines/combo's were sold on any given day, and what percentage of them were unique? But given the response I got from them the last time I sent them a question, I doubt I'd get an accurate/straight answer. They'd have to use computer software to scan all of the lines sold and have the software count all the unique lines. That'd take somebody at the Lottery to use a little brain power and I'm not sure they employ anybody that could use their noggin like that!