Crossword #3209 Overtakes Scrabble to Claim the Top Spot

Although Scrabble #3209 only has an estimated 10% of its float left, that still translates into 2 million tickets out there. The game features the second best return rate on prizes less than $100 and the third best Top Prize ratio. Those two factors combine to edge out the second and third rated games.

Your odds to win the $50,000 Grand Prize is 1 in a million and your chance to win a prize of $100 or more are 1 in 2000. You can expect to cash 1 in every 3.84 tickets and to cash something more than the cost of the ticket 1 in every 6.84 tickets. Those are good numbers for a $3 ticket.

 

*** Note***
Because Crossword #3210 is also for sale, I can't find an image of #3209 that I can copy into the blog. Version 3209 is a YELLOW ticket. If you want the game and can't find a yellow ticket, don't worry. Version 3210 is currently the 6th rated game.

Top Rated Games

1. $3 Crossword #3209 
2. $3 Scrabble #1835 - Dethroned former champ still a good choice.
3. $1 Bingo Express #1823 - 20% of float left and 2 of 4 Grand Prizes. 
4. $5 Cross Tripler #1830 - Best chance to have a winning ticket that you think is a loser!
5. $3 Super Bingo #3018 - Tommy's kind of game - great small prize availability. 

Games To Avoid

1. $1 5X The Money #1838 - burn them, if you can.
2. $1 Red Hot 50's #1827 - Begins life as a stinker. It's a long way up for this one. 
3. $5 Frenzy #1853 - Victim of my bias. Buy em if you like em. 
4. $2 Fast 200's #1817 - Mini Me version of Frenzy
5. $5 Crystal 7's #1848 - a $5 Game devoid of Grand Prizes. Why does it continue? GP is <$100k.

Games To Play If All You Want Is A Grand Prize

1. 500 Frenzy
2. Red Hot 50s
3. Fast 200s
4. Cash Blast
5. Extreme

Games Devoid Of Grand Prizes

• Sweet Cash
• Crystal 7's
• 5X The Money

Comings and Goings

Tetris was retired with zero grand prizes and 15% (394,000) of its float left. Its run was only 4 months long.

New for gaming pleasure are $1 Red Hot 50's and a replacement for Fortune, $10 Diamond. The former is destined to the stinker list and the latter begins its life in 9th place. The game has good potential. See the comments to last weeks entry for a more detailed review.

Personal Play

My week started off well with $21 worth of cashes on Scrabble and Crossword from 6 tickets. That was the high point of the week as the Cross Tripler and Classic White were both duds. I have purchased 5 Classic Whites to date without any success. I doubt that I'll buy any more. Oh yeah, I lost my obligatory $11 on Lotto Max. One of my lines actually had the first two numbers drawn, in order. But alas, it also turned out to be a loser.

Post Script

The OLG labour dispute continues with appeals now being made to the Premier by affected employees that if she cares so much about the pensions of Ontarians, why is she allowing some of her own employees to lose theirs. Why indeed.

I am in the process of relocating. I expect to be without internet service for a period of time. If I don't post for a while, that is the reason. I'll be back just as soon as I can.

Until then, happy scratching.


Doug