| Crucially, Nilton Santos persuaded Botafogo to gamble on a young winger with crooked legs, and they truly hit the jackpot by signing Garrincha. |
| If you can get these three cherries in a line, you have hit the jackpot, whether you measure success in money, in print acreage, in airtime, in pixels or in love. |
| The Mariners, of course, hit the jackpot in 2001 when they took a chance on Ichiro Suzuki, a Japanese baseball veteran with seven consecutive batting titles in his homeland. |
| The result you needed in order for you to hit the jackpot is four consecutive aces of the same suit, starting from your very first card. |
| Despite being an utter failure at his craft, German television director Wilfried Huismann hit the jackpot in persuading Lorenz to tell him her story. |
| I also have no doubt that when practiced by someone with a good practical knowledge of field archaeology, dowsing with rods can sometimes hit the jackpot. |
