Cross Tripler #1791 Strengthens Its Grip

I don't know how another 30,000 of those tickets were sold last week given that they are nowhere to be found where I am. We have a situation brewing here whereby four of the initial 15 Grand Prizes remain outstanding and only an estimated 11% of the float remains. The game is on its last legs given that its deactivation date was Feb 06th. Get out and turn over some rocks. Your chances are only 223,000:1. Scratch ten a day for 61 years and you'll have a good chance to win a Grand Prize. Sound terrible? Well, its the best of any game currently for sale.


It's the orange version of this game:

Top Rated Games

1. $5 Cross Tripler #1791 - All systems go.
2. $4 Bonus Cash For Life #1168 - Good game, great Grand Prize.
3. $5 20X Lucky #1808 - Good choice, top game with lots of tickets available. 
4. $5 Diamond 7's #1822 - first appearance on top 5 list. 
5. $1 Wild 8's #1813 - Love it when $1 games make the list. It's scratch heaven. 

Games to Avoid

1. $3 More Lucky Lines #1794 - saw a woman playing this game the other day. Noooooo!
2. $3 Scrabble #1821 - lost last Grand Prize last week. Largest prize left is $5000.
3. $3 Words With Friends #1798 - tripped and fell right out of the gate. Zero Grand Prizes left. 
4. $10 Bejeweled #1786 - Low value for a $10 game. 
5. $20 Extraordinary #1742 - 10 months to sell 30% of the float. Horrible value for $20.

If It's The Grand Prize You're After

(Games with most $ from every dollar spent that goes to the Grand Prize winners)

1. Double Cash For Life
2. Bonus Cash For Life
3. Cross Tripler #1791
4. Fortune
5. Bejeweled

Comings and Goings

Win Take All #1825 was introduced this past week. The game is a little light on churning prizes due to its relative high amount of prizes between $100 and the Grand Prize. Not keen on the game but alternate evaluation methods may rate the game higher. It has potential to move up.

Also new is Living The Life. It is a hybrid game falling somewhere between the Lotto games and the Instant games. It is marketed as a raffle game and that is fairly accurate. There is a maximum of 6,172,840 tickets that will be sold. The computer spits out your ticket number(s) from among those that are remaining. There is an early bird draw to encourage us all to get out there early.

The game is top heavy, like a Lotto game,  with the Grand Prize winner hauling down $3,000,000. There is a secondary prize of $1,000,000 and three $100,000 prizes. You will have essentially one chance in one hundred to win anything and almost 100% of those winners will win $20.

The game also has the chance to be quite profitable to the OLG. Because the tickets can be sold at three different price points ($5 for 1, $10 for 3, $20 for 7), it is hard to know what the final revenue will be. If all of the tickets were sold individually, the OLG would return 21.6% of the revenue. If all the tickets were sold on a 7 for $20 basis, the return would be 59%. What does this mean? In a worst case scenario, the game will be as profitable to the OLG as a $1 Instant Game, speaking in terms of percentages. Potential profit on the game for the OLG is somewhere between $11 and $24 million, if all the tickets are sold. The good thing about the game is that we know that there will be a winner for every prize level above $20. That's something.

Personal Play

My brutalization continues. Why? $10 tickets are proving to be a wasteland. I have purchased 3 Holiday Spectaculars, 6 Cadillac Riches, and 2 Ruby Reds so far this year. My total return is $10 for that $110 investment. Beyond lame! Should I continue to beat my head against that wall or move on? You tell me.

In Conclusion

A reader was told by a seller that a Cross Tripler ticket that they had was not available for sale as it was a sample ticket for marketing purposes. I phoned the OLG and was informed that no such thing exists. A photocopy, maybe, but the OLG does not produce samplers. Methinks a return visit to that vendor is in order.

I'm going to write to suggest to the OLG that they create a game where the Grand Prizes are trips to Florida in the winter. This weather is brutal. It takes everything I have to venture out to buy Instant tickets. Wait! What about www.olg.ca? Nah.


Keep plugging away.

Doug