Fan5 Game Comparison

Fantasy 5 is currently playing its third version. The game started with version 1 in May 1989, then switched to version 2 in April 1993, and finally switched to version 3 in July 2001. Below is a comprehensive comparison chart which presents several game properties for all three versions side-by-side.

It is interesting to observe that version 1 had the highest average jackpot payout per winner [$206,268], while version 2 had the highest average number of jackpot winners per draw [16]. Version 3, on the other hand, has the highest average number of total winners per draw [> 100,000], taking into account the free Quick Pick ticket reward for matching two numbers. [For payout calculation purposes, free Quick Pick tickets are valued at $1.00 each*]. Altogether, all three Fantasy 5 versions have distributed over $2.31 billion to more than 173 million winners in 14 years.

	¹Fantasy 5	²Fantasy 5	³Fantasy 5
Start	02 May 89	30 Apr 93	16 Jul 01
End	28 Apr 93	15 Jul 01	Current

Draws	559	2,299	743
Matrix	5 / 39	5 / 26	5 / 36
Combis	575,757	65,780	376,992
	Ave. Pay / Winner	Ave. Pay / Winner	Ave. Pay / Winner
5 / 5	$ 206,268	$ 19,494	$ 87,339
4 / 5	$ 344.69	$ 30.97	$ 227.69
3 / 5	$ 5.17	$ 4.53	$ 10.01
2 / 5			Free QP Ticket
	Ave. Winners / Draw	Ave. Winners / Draw	Ave. Winners / Draw
5 / 5	5	16	2
4 / 5	853	1,637	334
3 / 5	28,439	32,527	9,828
2 / 5			95,079
Total	29,297	34,180	105,243
	Total Payouts	Total Payouts	Total Payouts
5 / 5	$ 575,693,142	$ 702,291,083	$ 135,986,157
4 / 5	$ 164,301,141	$ 116,583,966	$ 56,453,268
3 / 5	$ 82,188,520	$ 338,751,159	$ 73,073,522
2 / 5			FT 70,643,994*
Total	$ 822,182,803	$ 1,157,626,208	$ 336,156,941
	Total Winners	Total Winners	Total Winners
5 / 5	2,791	36,026	1,557
4 / 5	476,657	3,763,848	247,936
3 / 5	15,897,547	74,779,657	7,302,222
2 / 5			70,643,994
Total	16,376,995	78,579,531	78,195,709