Is there a Mr. Happy guide to weekly lottery?

[SuperZay]

I'm tired of 'winning' just 86 MGP every week. In fact I'm losing MGP every time because of 100 entry fee. Cactpot's weird setup of choosing winning numbers in exact reverse order makes it much more difficult to win, otherwise I'd have won many numbers.
Are there reliable, time-proven strategies of increasing chances to win the Jumbo Cactpot?

[Santherelle]

Nope to both questions.

It is a lottery. It is just random luck

[randysquirrel]

yes there are.
firstly you should always pick a prime number as your first number, and your second number should be a multiple of 3.
Third is always 6.
Your last number should be the minute displayed on the clock when you buy your ticket.

[lyubit]

yes there are.
firstly you should always pick a prime number as your first number, and your second number should be a multiple of 3.
Third is always 6.
Your last number should be the minute displayed on the clock when you buy your ticket.

I'm glad Square-Enix keeps giving us familiar FFXI mechanics for pure RNG events so we know how to properly hedge our bets. I only have one question: is the Minute for the last digit Local Time, Server Time, or Eorzean Time?
Also, keep this on the down low but I've heard from certain sources that speaking to the broker while in first person view will increase your chances of winning by the same amount as popping sprint before talking to said broker.



(In case anyone is dense enough to be fooled, yes I am joking. The second sentence isn't wrong though, as sprinting before talking to the broker would add nothing to your chances of winning.)

[The_Last_Dragoon]

What if the next Atma grind was tied to at least getting one number on the Jumbo Cactpot?

Anyway, I do have some helpful advice for at least the mini-cactpot. You should always be shooting to get a 1,2,3 line-up since about 10% of them have the potential to pay out 10,000 GP, and it's extremely easy to at least break even on the ones that don't.

[MistyMew]

yes there are.
firstly you should always pick a prime number as your first number, and your second number should be a multiple of 3.
Third is always 6.
Your last number should be the minute displayed on the clock when you buy your ticket.

lolol ooooh thats the secret

[StouterTaru]

I think your best bet is to go to a psychic each week and ask them for numbers to play. That way you'll be sure to make MGP.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Mr. Happy made a video, but his explanation of how to win the cactpot every time is so long and convoluted that it hasn't finished uploading yet. Just go to his youtube page and keep hitting F5, it's bound to show up before you win the cactpot.

[Alistera]

The jumbo cactpot consists for 10,000 possible outcomes, from 0000 to 9999.

It's best to see it as four different number slots, the chance of any outcome in each number slot is 1 in 10 (as it's 0-9)

So let's say I pick 5842, there's a 10% chance of 5 being correct in the first slot, and a 10% chance of 8 being right in the second slot and so on.

The problem is, you don't need to get all the numbers, you also need to get them in order, which ensures that possibilities of winning anything at all is the smallest it could possibly be as your picking a single outcome from a list of 10,000 outcomes.

So to sum it... pick anything... it doesn't matter, there's no strategy or way to increase your chances to win this.

[Shake0615]

Are there reliable, time-proven strategies of increasing chances to win the Jumbo Cactpot?

An old wives' tale from my country says that if you stand with one foot in a vat of sour cream with a raw potato in your left back pocket and spin around in a circle while singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star backwards, the voice of an angel will whisper the winning numbers to you three days after the drawing. Good luck!