Current Playable Scratch and Win Games

List of current games playable according to Usockem Blog rules:

1. $5 20X Lucky 1638 -  +50
2. $5 Atari 1658 - +4
3. $2 Diamond Dazz 1645 - +2
4. $3 Bingo 3000 - +1
5. $4 Cash for Life 1154 - +0

Avoidance Warning!!!
Games where all the grand prizes have already been claimed:

$1 Bingo Express 1642
$1 Line em Up 1639
$3 Keno 1408
$3 More Lucky 1621

Rules of Play

Everyone who plays the lottery wants to win the grand prize for that lottery. Would anyone sit down to play a slot machine if they knew that the jackpot was not winnable? This blog is intended to identify to Scratch and Win players which games are the best to play at any particular moment.

How is this determined? Three simple rules:

1. Calculate the percentage of grand prizes left to be claimed in any one game.
2. Subtract the percentage of tickets left to be purchased.*
3. Subtract the take-out for the game. **
4. Only games with a positive result are playable, the game with the highest rating is the recommended choice.


* Estimated by calculating the % of all other prizes left to be claimed as detailed on the OLG site.
** Information is available on the OLG game detail sheets.
   

Scarcity of Tickets for 20X Lucky

During the course of the past week, 3% of the total 20X Lucky tickets have been sold bringing the total sold to 83%. All three $100,000 prizes remain to be claimed. It is getting harder and harder to find tickets but keep your search active. This game is by far the best one to play at the moment.

20X Lucky Remains the Choice

As of Friday the 9th, 20X Lucky remains the best choice of games. Only 19% of tickets remain to be sold with all 3 Grand Prizes remaining outstanding. Ticket sellers may tell you that the game has ended: it has not. All the tickets have been distributed and many sellers are sold out but the game remains active. Keep your eye for these tickets.

A friend was able to find 18 tickets over the course of the past week. The game has over 200,000 $20 prizes. He was able to play those 18 tickets and return $85 of the $90 invested. I have not been as fortunate.

20X Lucky

This game is highly recommended. It is estimated that only 20% of the tickets remain unsold but all three $100,000 prizes remain unclaimed. The take out for the game is 33%. Your odds of getting a jackpot winning ticket are presently 176,000:1 versus the 840,500:1 when the game began. Your chances of winning any prize are 3.38:1.

Games to avoid at the present time include $1 Bingo Express 1642, $1 Line em Up 1639, $2 Slot of Cash 1648, and $3 More Lucky. All of the top prizes have already been claimed for each of those games.

First Blog

Visit this blog to identify the best Scratch and Win tickets available for play in Ontario. Only 4% of lottery players regularly play scratch and win. This is remarkable given that it is the only form of play where the player can actually receive favourable odds.

The attraction of the big jackpot fuels the main lotteries. Multi-million dollar scores but the odds of winning the 649 are 14 million: 1! As such, players should not be buying tickets until the prize is $14 million. But by that time the number of players expands exponentially and the pot is usually split more than one way.

With scratch and win tickets the entire outcome of the game is predetermined. A player can determine what their odds are of winning the jackpot and of winning any one prize. The Ontario Lottery Corporation kindly publishes what the current status is of all games on a regular basis. With this information a player knows if the jackpot(s) has been won or not for any particular game and the player can estimate how many tickets have been sold to date.  Scratch and win games return between 60% -70% of the total revenue taken into the players, assuming that all tickets are sold. The more expensive the ticket, the higher the return. When one combines this information with the unsold ticket information, a player is able to identify lotteries where the purchase of a ticket actually puts the player in a position where the odds are in their favour. Granted, the odds of winning a jackpot will always be low but why not only play games where the wager is justified? Scratch and Win games give the player a chance to make a “value play”. Why not improve your chances of winning?

Visit this blog regularly to see what games are recommended for play. 

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