Cash Card #1876 Tops The List

Cash Card sits on top of the ratings on the strength of a 2.01 ratio of top prizes to top prize money. The problem is that only an estimated 13% of its float remain to be sold. There is only one Grand Prize of $75,000 remains and your chance to find it is 1 in 385,000.

One in every 3.52 tickets is a winner and one in 7.47 is a winner of more than $3. The game also features a high 6.8% of total revenue returned to players winning $100 or more. That is very high.

Rank	Cost	Game	#	Score
1	$3.00	Cash Card	1876	711.3
2	$10.00	Platinum	1888	621.1
3	$3.00	Keno	1418	601.9
4	$5.00	Wild Card	1893	590.7
5	$10.00	Lucky Aces	1856	580.8
6	$5.00	Black Pearls	1880	571.2
7	$5.00	Cross Tripler	1879	565.2
8	$3.00	Sweet Cash	1886	563.7
9	$30.00	250M Golden	1782	563.5
10	$5.00	Cross Tripler	1872	560.0
11	$3.00	More Lucky Lines	1836	553.8
12	$3.00	Crossword	1866	547.5
13	$20.00	Extreme	1780	547.7
14	$5.00	Triple Crown	1882	540.0
15	$1.00	Bacon Bits	1860	538.1
16	$3.00	Bingo	3020	536.3
17	$2.00	Sushi Bar	1870	530.8
18	$2.00	Double Dollar	1837	530.6
19	$5.00	Bingo Doubler	1873	524.8
20	$10.00	Diamond	1781	512.4
21	$5.00	Ruby 7's	1885	507.3
22	$3.00	Cross Word	3211	506.0
23	$2.00	Lucky Dog	1859	501.1
24	$1.00	Donut Dollars	1869	493.3
25	$5.00	500 Frenzy	1892	492.3
26	$4.00	Cash For Life	1171	480.1
27	$3.00	Scrabble	1883	441.5

Comings and Goings

High Roller and Quest For Gold Crossword were retired since the last update. QFG was a dog almost throughout its entire run and will not be missed. High Roller was a good choice and was retired with 2 of its 8 Grand Prizes left and 18% of its float. I would have liked to have seen the game left alone a bit longer given that there are only 85 million total tickets for sale in the province. 

New to the family is a new $500 Frenzy. This is a game that my formula does not rate highly but it is a perfectly good choice for people who want plentiful prizes and no large prizes. A poster has already claimed one of the 6,452 Grand Prizes. 

Personal Play 

Six Platinum tickets contained two winners of $70. A winning week? The gods must be smiling upon me. 

Post Script

First off we have a story about a lottery group participant who tried to cheat his Tim Horton's buddies: http://on.thestar.com/2bBle3v . I'd have a hard time forgiving him. 

And a story from the Ottawa Citizen about what is going on at the Rideau Carlton Raceway: http://bit.ly/2b4OSPl . If anyone can decipher the gobbly-gook that the OLG says, please let me know. All I know is that they're not happy with the hand that the local politicians have dealt them. 

Best of luck to all. 

Doug

Cash Card #1876 Jumps To The Top

There has been a real shakeup at the top of the standings. There were five different games that lost 2 Grand Prizes since the last update effectively knocking those games down the list. Those games were: Sweet Cash, Cash For Life, Bingo Doubler, Cross Tripler, and Diamond.

The new top rated game only has 16% of its float left to sell which means that they will become tough to find beginning very soon. The game has one - $75,000 Grand Prize left to be claimed. There are roughly 490,000 tickets left to be sold. There is also one $25,000 second prize and one $10,000 third prize left to be claimed. $0.051 of every dollar spent on the game will go to the Grand Prize winner which is very high for a $3 game.

After a long period of $3 games being highly rated it looks like it will be a while before another one reaches the top five. Also of note is the second rated game, Ruby 7's. This game is the fastest selling game currently for sale.

Rank	Cost	Game	#	Score
1	$3.00	Cash Card	1876	604.4
2	$5.00	Ruby 7's	1885	587.1
3	$10.00	Platinum	1888	573.8
4	$3.00	Keno	1418	563.4
5	$3.00	More Lucky Lines	1836	553.1
6	$10.00	Lucky Aces	1856	549.7
7	$5.00	Cross Tripler	1872	529.1
8	$5.00	High Roller	1874	523.4
9	$30.00	250M Golden	1782	507.2
10	$5.00	Cross Tripler	1879	499.9
11	$3.00	Crossword	1866	498.3
12	$5.00	Wild Card	1893	497.7
13	$20.00	Extreme	1780	496.8
14	$5.00	Bingo Doubler	1873	484.0
15	$5.00	Black Pearls	1880	476.3
16	$5.00	Triple Crown	1882	475.0
17	$3.00	Scrabble	1883	474.3
18	$1.00	Donut Dollars	1869	472.6
19	$2.00	Sushi Bar	1870	472.2
20	$3.00	Bingo	3020	464.8
21	$1.00	Bacon Bits	1860	463.0
22	$4.00	Cash For Life	1171	459.8
23	$2.00	Double Dollar	1837	459.1
24	$10.00	Diamond	1781	458.0
25	$2.00	Lucky Dog	1859	455.1
26	$3.00	Sweet Cash	1886	455.2
27	$3.00	QFG Crossword	3213	385.7

Comings and Goings

Four games have been retired since the last update and none of them will be missed. Those games are: Bingo Doubler, Pac Man Slots, Walking Dead and Hit 100. 

New to the scene are: $1 Donut Dollars, $5 Cross Tripler and $5 Wild Card. Of note is that Donut Dollars begins life as the best $1 or $2 game for sale. That's good news for players who like inexpensive games. 

Personal Play

Three Cash for Life tickets returned nothing, 3 Keno tickets contained 2 winners, each for $5, and three Sweet Cash tickets contained one winner of $3. 

Post Script

Randy was certainly correct in his forecast of the demise of Cash For Life after it surrendered two Grand Prizes: it fell out of the top five all the way down to 22nd. 

Here is an article from Rabble.ca on the subject of the OLG and, more specifically, the Ontario Government : http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/michael-laxer/2016/06/ontario-governments-grotesque-lottery-addiction . It's interesting but one has to remember that a site like Rabble makes no apology for its politics. It's a good counterbalance to the Fraser Institute. 

Good luck to all. 

Doug