Jackpot Setup
If you have not already setup Turbo
Accessories to enable the Wickets Jackpot Module, assign the serial
ports, set the SiteID and Alternate SiteIDs, the please do so
according to the Turbo Accessories
Setup instructions. The instructions here pertain only to setting
up the parameters under which the Jackpot will be conducted.
From the Turbo Accessories Setup screen click the
Wickets Jackpot Controller
Setup button
 to open
the screen shown to the right.
Setup Jackpot
Amounts: In this frame
there are four values to set. Click the
Keypad button to the
right of each value to set it. The Start Amount sets the
value of the first jackpot following someone's win. The Increment
Amount sets the amount by which the jackpot will be raised each
drawing when nobody wins. The Bonus Amount sets the amount to
add to the jackpot if the winner spent Wicket money at your business
since the prior jackpot drawing... if its enabled. The Next
Jackpot value tells you the planned amount for the next
scheduled Jackpot. If you would like to change the next jackpot
amount, just change the displayed value.
Set Jackpot
Drawing Interval: You
can select between Weekly, Bi-Weekly, or Monthly
drawing intervals. Then use the drop-down list boxes to set the
drawing day, the drawing time, and the date of the next drawing.
Monthly drawings will be done on the first occurrence of this day
each month. After a Jackpot Drawing is made and displayed, the
winner will have 1/2 of this drawing interval to make his claim,
after which the amount will automatically be carried over to the
amount for the next Jackpot Drawing.
Jackpot Bonus
Qualification Rule: Check the box if you wish to enable the
Jackpot Bonus with a rule that says if money was spent since the
Wicket was last read and it is drawn, then its owner is also
qualified for the Jackpot Bonus.
Winning
Qualification Rules: While only Wickets read at the Jackpot
Station during the entry period prior to a Jackpot Drawing are
qualified to win the Jackpot, you may optionally choose between
these two additional rules: a) every qualified Wicket has an equal
chance of winning, or b) Wickets with money spent since last read
get twice the chance. If you choose the second option, then the
Jackpot Bonus option will be automatically disabled... can't do
both.
Drawing
Eligibility Rules: Being eligible for the drawing only means
that a Wicket ID number can participate in the drawing and possibly
be drawn. However, to actually win the Jackpot the drawn Wicket must
also be qualified to win according to the rules stated above. The
eligibility choices are; a) all Wickets in the database are
qualified, b) only Wickets read in the last 3 years are qualified,
c) only Wickets read in the last year are qualified, and d) only
Wickets read in the last 90 days are qualified.
Your choice of
settings will dramatically affect the interval between having a
winner. You want one often enough to keep interest in a growing
jackpot, but if it seems to never get won, then interest will be
lost. If you are just starting out, there will not be enough of a
database to properly estimate the “Probability Of No Winner” in the
frame above. After a few months, take another look and make a
selection adjustment if the likely interval between winning is too
long or too short. We recommend one of the following settings as a
starting point: a) if you choose to give Wickets with recent money
spent twice the chance as those having no recently spent money, we
recommend the 1 year time period for eligibility, and b) if you
choose to give all Wickets an equal chance regardless of whether
money was recently spent then we recommend the 90 day time period
for eligibility. Note that various other settings on this screen
affect the likely win interval.
Probability
Of No Winner: Knowing the Probability Of No Winner, or
P(NoWin), helps you determine which of the jackpot rules to
select so that you don't have jackpot winners so often that a
sizeable jackpot never builds, and conversely so they aren't so
infrequent that customers lose interest because nobody ever seems to
win. P(NoWin) is calculated from the information stored in the
database of all read Wickets and an estimate that only about 2/3 of
winners will ever claim their prize. Dividing the number of
Qualified Wickets (read during the period between drawings) by the
number Eligible Wickets, then multiplying by 2/3 we get an estimate
of the probability of winning, or P(Win). But P(NoWin) = 1 - P(Win)
for any given drawing. To know P(NoWin) after N successive drawings
we need only multiply P(NoWin) by itself N times.
For example, if the average number of eligible Wickets was 2,000 and
the average number of qualified entrants was 300, then P(Win) =
(300/2000)(2/3) = 10%, or 1 in 10. With 90% chance of no winner,
there will still be a 31% chance of no winner after the 11th drawing
and a 5.4% chance you could go more than 28 drawings without a
winner!
Contact Message For The Jackpot Winner:
Enter text into the box for the message to scroll on the display for
a jackpot winner after informing him of his win to convey any
specific information for contacting you to collect his prize... such
as a phone number.
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the
current entry period for the drawing. In the frame on the right we
can see the the last Jackpot Drawing amount was $10 with a $50 Bonus
and that it occurred on Wednesday Dec. 3rd at 12:00PM. The drawn
Wicket was #15566 owned by (an already registered owner) Mike Owen
who can be reached at 879-862-7051. He is Bonus Qualified, and the
claim is still pending because Mike has not yet returned to the
Jackpot Station to read in his Wicket to stake his claim.
