Bonus Cash For Life #1168 Listing But Stays On Top

Sorry about my late post. Unexpected family responsibilities took me out of town for several days. Two weeks and a day since the last update but not much has changed. The top rated game lost a Grand Prize to a lucky player in Fergus but three of the original five Grand Prizes remain outstanding with only 30% of the float remaining. Your chances to snag one are 1:980,000 for $4. Seventeen cents of every dollar spent on the game will go to those three as yet undetermined winners.

This game, like all CFL games, has the lowest amount of prizes of less than $100 in its group. That is the trade off and several posters have reported bad luck on the game. I have experienced the same but those three Grand Prizes still look juicy and, in my opinion, are worth the trade-off.


 

The image on the ticket also looks mighty pleasing given our weather of late.....

Top Rated Games

1. $4 Bonus Cash For Life #1168 - Good bang for your playing dollar. 
2. $10 Fortune #1779 - IPL game is quietly working its way up. Ten $1 m prizes left. 
3. $10 Wild 10's #1785 - bored with this one? Still has good value and 22-$10,000 prizes left. 
4. $20 Extraordinary #1742 - lots of ads on TV for this one. Will they produce sales?
5. $10 Holiday Spectacular #1816 - Best Christmas game available. 

Games to Avoid

1. $3 Crossword #3206 - Only 9% of float left. Buy #3207, if you must play this game. 
2. $3 More Lucky Lines #1794 - Disgraceful. 
3. $1 Lucky Lines #1770 - a dog since it arrived on the scene. 
4. $2 Royal 7's #1790 - Nothing to like. 
5. $3 Scrabble #1821 - 1 of 3 Grand Prizes left and well over 2 million tickets left to sell. 

$1 - $2 Game Update

Holiday Cashout is the best choice and you're getting a free ticket with every Holiday Pack. Tempting...

$3 Game Update

Keno #1414 and Horseshoes #1806 are the top two picks in this group.

$4 - $5 Game Update

Bonus Cash for Life is the top pick, Black Pearls would be the next best choice.

$10- - $20 Game Update

You can find justification to play any game in this group. I rate Cadillac Riches as the poorest of the group but it is still 10th overall and CL66 rates it as the best game. The only question you have to ask yourself is whether you can mentally withstand a losing streak when buying $10 tickets?

Comings and Goings

The premature retirement announcement for Jacks Are Wild has now become a reality. All Grand Prizes were gone, In fact, the OLG was slow on the trigger retiring this game. Tough to pull the trigger, OLG,  once the Grand Prizes are gone. I understand.

New on the scene is $1 Cross Express #1811. This is a straightforward game. There are four $10,000 Grand Prizes and a good availability of smaller prizes. The trade off is that there are no prizes between $50 and $10,000. Still, a reader picked up a bunch as he is of the view that it has the highest chance of any game to double your money. I have not worked out those numbers for every game but he may well be right. Of course, that means a $2 cash in this case.

Personal Play

Two Gift Packs returned nothing. Two Bonus Cash for Life tickets were each a winner returning $24.

My year-to-date cash rate stands at 30% and my ROI at 59%. I'd like to nudge that up to at least 60% over the next two weeks.

In Conclusion

A couple of articles caught my attention:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/19/b-c-lottery-pulls-dragon-fever-slot-machine-after-it-dishes-out-100000-prize-due-to-malfunction/

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/50m-lotto-max-ticket-hidden-144925628.html

The second one reminds us that if you are in an office pool you should always have a signed document and be provided with a copy of all tickets for every draw. Don't be trusting. Sad.

A reader also has asked me to ask visitors what they use to scratch tickets with. A loony, a quarter, a lucky penny, a key chain? Post what you use to the reader comments. I like the idea of a lucky penny but I can never find it! Most often I use a loony.


Best


Doug