Bingo Express #1823 Remains the Top Choice

Ten days since the last update and both of the Bingo Express Grand Prizes remain outstanding. Your chances to win one are now less than 1 in 200,000 which is the best of any game currently for sale (excepting the games with plentiful Grand Prizes). The game also returns 58.7% of its revenue to winners of $100 or less. Of course, in this game, that is ALL of the prizes with the exception of those two Grand Prizes. With 13% of the float left to claim and the game having been deactivated, your chances of finding tickets will be a challenge. Time to suss out those out-of-the-way retailers.

Top Rated Games

1. $1 Bingo Express #1823 - Worth your $1 investment.
2. $3 Crossword #3209 - Tickets are scarce but great small prize return.
3. $3 Crossword #3210 - Lots of these so if you can't find the sister game, not a bad choice.
4. $5 Wild Card #1854 - 4 of 7 Grand Prizes left and 27% of the float. Strong pick.
5. $3 Super Bingo #3018 - Fantastic small prize ratio.

Games to Avoid

1. $1 5X The Money #1838 - Horrible game.
2. $3 More Lucky Lines #1829 - feast or famine. It's a famine for this version. 
3. $2 10X The Money #1839 - keep flogging the two black sheep of this family.
4. $10 Instant Game Pack #1922 - Noooo. I wanted to buy some. 
5. $2 Golden 7's #1824 - Terrible small prize return. 

Best Plentiful Small Grand Prize Games

1. Fast 200's
2. 500 Frenzy
3. Red Hot 50's

Games to Play If All You Want Is A Grand Prize

1. Cash Blast #1819
2. Wild Card #1854
3. Diamond #1781

Games Devoid Of Grand Prizes

• 5X The Money
• More Lucky Lines
• Sweet Cash

Comings and Goings

Crystal 7's was retired this week. A welcome choice as  it was devoid of Grand Prizes and was a $5 game which made it especially distasteful.

New on the scene were Merry Money and The $10 Holiday Gift Pack. Good reviews on both are contained in the comments to last week's post. I rank Merry Money 24th as two of its Grand Prizes have already been claimed after an estimated 14% of the float having been sold.

I desperately wanted to play the Gift Pack but it returns only 53.7% of its revenue to winners of less than $100. Its Grand Prize is only $50,000 and although there are 6 of them, that's still only 1.7% of total revenue which is easily the worst of all $10 - $20 games. The game only offers a total return of 65% instead of the usual 70% for $10 games. There is the $2 off of a $4 Cash For Life ticket and that has to be worth the missing 5% as was pointed out. What the heck, I'll buy some anyways.

If you want to be entertained read the string of messages between Lloyd and Tommy last week. It's good. If this blog serves no other purpose than to have rescued some of Lloyd's profits from the trash bin , then it has been a success.

Personal Play

Nothing to report

Post Script

Lots of discussion on checking tickets before discarding them. I could not agree more. I had a $30 winning Cross Tripler ticket that , even after being pleasantly surprised at the ticket checker, I could not see how I had won. I took the redeemed ticket home and it had to take me 15 minutes for me to see the mistake I had made.

I wonder what the estimated slippage is at the OLG? They know exactly what tickets were redeemed and the accounting for all redeemed prizes. What percentage of winning tickets are sold but never cashed? Racetracks enjoy the same sort of bonus. I would estimate it at about 5%. Any other opinions?

Interesting comments on the upcoming Cash For Life game by CL66. The game was not listed on the O/S Prize Listing today so it has not made it into the ratings. Its inclusion will bring the number of tickets for sale to about 115,000,000, well above the normal supply of about 90,000,000. There's no shortage of choice these days.

An amusing story about a chap who is suing Lotto Quebec because quick pick numbers are removed from the RNG for a period of a few weeks thereby creating the possibility that those very excluded sets of numbers may be the winning numbers.

http://on.thestar.com/1HjiKhq

I was shaking my head until I reached the part of the story where we learn that this is the same guy whose winning Lotto Max ticket was processed 9 seconds after the deadline. He lost that suit too. I pity the chap but this is no way to deal with his angst.

By the way, has anyone claimed that $64 Million Lotto Max prize in Mississauga yet? I'll bet that the DART team is on the job.


Doug