Fruit Explosion Finished - Bonus Cash For Life #1168 Takes Over

The vain pursuit of the last Fruit Explosion Grand Prize has ended with it most likely belonging to the OLG itself. For those who have squirreled some away ( a friend has eight that he intends to scratch on Christmas morning), the last recorded chances for you were 182,000:1.

The new top choice is Bonus Cash For Life #1168. The game offers four of its five initial Grand Prizes of $675,000 after selling almost 60% of its float. The Cash For Life games are top heavy and my evaluation system rewards that fact. Your chances to win any prize larger than the cost of the ticket are 1:6.74 which is pretty good for the $4-$5 group of games. The advantage this game offers is that the "Bonus" comes in the form of a higher overall return to players than the cost of the ticket would indicate. In general, $5 games return 66-67% of the games revenue to the winners. Bonus Cash For Life returns 69.9% which is equivalent to the $10 - $20 games. Barring the loss of more than one Grand Prize, this game is poised to rule the ratings for several weeks.

Top Rated Games

1. $4 Bonus Cash For Life #1168 - Strong top pick,
2. $10 Spectacular #1816 - small float, tickets selling well,
3. $10 Fortune #1779 - jumbo inter-provincial game, good chance to cash. 
4. $10 Wild 10's #1785 - game winding down, still 25 $10,000 prizes left.
5. $20 Extraordinary #1742 - 7 , $3 games or one of these, very slow seller.

Games to Avoid

1. $5 Jacks Are Wild #1787 - all three top prize categories gone - we're waiting OLG!
2. $3 More Lucky Lines #1794 - OLG has sold 40% of float AFTER all GP's claimed!
3. $2 Crazy 8's #1765 - All 5 Grand Prizes claimed. 
4. $1 Lucky Lines #1770 - please make this game stop. It sucks.
5. $5 Cash In #1807 - terrible chance to win more than the cost of the ticket.

$1 - $2 Game Update

Cash Cow and Holiday Cashout are the top two choices.

$3 Game Update

With Fruit Explosion gone, Keno #1414 (not the new #1415) is the pick here.

$4 - $5 Game Update

Stick to the top rated game, Bonus Cash For Life #1168.

$10 - $20 Game Update

Here's an arguable statement - all the games here are playable with the exception of Cadillac Riches. (see the comment section for anticipated rebuttals)

Comings and Goings

Fruit Explosion, Scrabble #1799, and Crossword #3205 were all retired this past week. We were pleased to see the end of Scrabble and Crossword.

Newly launched were Crossword #3207 and 20X Lucky #1808. I'm not a fan of the Crossword games as the low Grand Prize structure of 10 - $50,000 prizes in a float of 20 million tickets is disappointing. Still, the game offers the best return percentage of all games for prizes greater than the price of the ticket and less than $100.  And I have to admit the game is fun to play.

20X Lucky offers a poor chance to cash any ticket (1:4.21) for a $5 ticket but what you get in return is a lower number of $5 winners. I was moaning about this last week so I guess that I have to like the game. Let's see how it develops.

Personal Play

Brutal! 6 Merry Money tickets included a single $5 winner. 2 Spectacular tickets returned 1 - $10 winner. 2 Bonus Cash For Life ticket returned zero. I am now at a cash rate of 30% and an ROI of 59%. Each number is a low for the year to date.

Posters report bad results on Bonus Cash For Life. That has been my experience as well. I have cashed 3 of 24 tickets for a whopping total of $20. Regardless, I am going to concentrate my play on this game this week.

In Conclusion

Received an invitation to visit the soon-t-be-launched www.playolg.ca site this morning. From the e-mail, "Blackjack, Roulette, Slots anda wholed lot more. PlayOLG provides a safe and fun enviroment where you can play your favourite games at your leisure. Plus, for the first time in Ontario, you will be able to legally purchase LOTTO MAX, LOTTO 6/49 and ENCORE online."

Gambling "at my leisure". I thought that I was already doing that. This is scary stuff for some poor souls.

Doug