Keno #1406 is the Holiday Play

With people looking for stocking stuffers, the OLG sold large quantities of the $1 and $2 tickets this past week. The HolTripler, Reindeer Game and Stocking Stuffer all sold over 6% of their entire ticket float during the week. None of those games is worth playing but if you must, $1.00 HolTripler #1675 is by far the best play of the three. Forty percent of the tickets have been sold and 3 of the 4 Grand Prizes remain to be claimed.

There is only one justifiable play and that is the $3 Keno #1406. Over 50% of the tickets have been sold and all 4 Grand Prizes remain to be claimed.

I bought 4 tickets this week, winning on three of them. The total cash was $17.

I will be outlining my strategy for 2012 in my next post along with a detailed summary of activity throughout the year. The beauty of Scratch and Win tickets is that the player surrenders the dreams of the super jackpot in exchange for lots of small cashes and, if you are selective, you can restrict your play to games where the odds justify the play. You can't say that about any other OLG activity.

Keno #1406

Keno #1406 is the clear play. Forty percent of the tickets have been sold and all four $50,000 grand prizes remain to be claimed. The 40% differential overcomes the 36% house take making the game a reasonable wager.


Your chance of winning the $50,000 prize is presently 440,000:1, down from the 733,400:1 it was when the game began.

Cranium fell off of the radar when the second of the three grand prizes was claimed this week. No reporting yet as to where the prize was won.

The Ontario Lottery Corporation applies different principles to games where the grand prize is $100,000 or more. These are all games with a price of $4 or more. Some of the higher priced games do not have $100,000 grand prizes. Of those games currently in play, none is playable. But, if you insist on playing, avoid $10 Classic Black, $10-100 Jumbo, and $5 Merry Money. These games are in an extremely negative position.

Doug