Bejeweled #1724 Remains on Top - Turbo Cash Retired

The OLG retired Turbo Cash this past week leaving Bejeweled as the clear best choice. Fifty-four percent of its tickets remain to be sold with 5 of its 6 top prizes left to be claimed. Your chance to win a Top Prize is presently 165,000:1. This is the best of any game.



Best Game to Win a Top Prize
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express and Silver Gold
$3 Games - Mahjong
$4-$5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Game to Win $100 or more (or smallest prize listed on web site)
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express
$3 Games - Quest For Gold Crossword
$4 - $5 Games - Money Multiplier
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Overall Rated Games

1. Bejeweled
2. Fast 100
3. Money Multiplier
4. Jacks are Wild
5. Mahjong

Games to Avoid

• Crossword #1299
• Super Bingo #3011

Comings and Goings

Turbo Cash and Frogger were retired this past week. All of the Top Prizes for Frogger had been claimed and most of its tickets sold making it a good candidate for retirement. Our old friend Turbo Cash still had one of its $250,000 Top Prizes to be claimed at the end of its run. I'll be watching to see if that prize was actually claimed. The OLG retires games, where the Top Prize is $100,000 or more, once all the Top Prizes have been claimed. In my opinion, they should also not retire these same games until all the Top Prizes have been claimed. At the point of Turbo Cash's retirement, it was our second rated game. People who have been playing it should be able to continue to chase the elusive Top Prize for as long as it remains outstanding. But that's just me.

Personal Play

Four Bejeweled yielded three winners totaling $55. My Year To Date cash rate is slightly over 40% and my total Return on Investment is 84%.

Big Winners over the past two weeks were located in Windsor, North York, Hamilton, and Burlington ($100,000 each). One lucky $1,000,000 winner was located in Brampton.

The OLG is proceeding to privatize its lottery operation. You can find information about this at http://www.olg.ca/about/modernizing_lottery_and_gaming_project_status.jsp . I have concerns over the "modernization" of the OLG which I will begin to share in future postings. Don't worry, no rants on my behalf - just information.

Best of Luck.

Doug

Bejeweled #1724 Loses Top Prize - Still Top Pick

Bejeweled sold almost 6% of its float in the nine days between postings. One of its Top Prizes was revealed. Five of the six top prizes remain and 65% of the tickets. This game started strong and has continued to offer the best choice for players. For those who continue with Turbo Cash, tickets are likely scarce now. Less than 15% of the float remains to be sold and less than one half of one percent of the tickets were sold over the past nine days. There is only one Top Prize left to be claimed but it remains a viable option.

Crossword #1299 and Frogger #1718 gave up their final Top Prizes last week. We now have three games that players should absolutely avoid. All three games have sold the majority of their respective tickets and should be therefore retired in short order.




Best Games to Win a Top Prize
$1-$2 Games - Silver Gold
$3 Games - Mahjong
$4 - $5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Games to Win $100 (or minimum prize listed on web site) or more
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express and Pick 3
$3 Games - QFG Crossword
$4 - $5 Games - Money Multiplier
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Overall Rated Games

1. Bejeweled
2. Fast 100
3. Turbo Cash
4. Money Multiplier
5. Jacks are Wild

Games to Avoid

• Crossword #1299
• Frogger #1718
• Super Bingo #3011

Comings and Goings

No games were retired this past week. $1 Pick-3 was introduced this week. It's a hard game to evaluate as 255,253  of the 1,141,757 prizes are actually free plays in the Pick-3 game. I guess this is someone's idea of cross marketing. I can't really count those prizes as "winning tickets" as the majority of them will turn out to be worthless. At least it's better than awarding Leafs/Senators tickets as prizes like the OLG did last year in the "Battle of Ontario" game. They were definitely not worth their advertised value. Pick-3 is also a game akin to Fast 100 as its Top Prize is only $500. There are 427 of them mind you, but it hardly represents anyone's idea of a Pot of Gold.

Personal Play

Four Bejeweled tickets included 2 winners - 1 worth $50 and 1 worth $15. This positive result boosted my cash rate to more than 40% and my YTD return on investment to 84%. Those are both positive results.

A special mention this week to a reader from Toronto who has been pounding away on Bejeweled and Mahjong with what only can be called miserable luck. My advice is to stay postive, change retailers, and never chase your money. Don't let the OLG get the best of you.

Good luck.

Doug

Bejeweled #1724 Extends Its Position

Another 4% of the Bejeweled float was purchased this week without revealing a Top Prize winner. One third of the tickets have now been sold and none of the six Top Prizes has been claimed. Your chance to win a Top Prize is now 164,000:1 which is the best of any game. The game is also the best choice for $100 (or more) wins. Your chance there is 1:146. Bejeweled started off as being a strong game but it is now in the territory of being a justifiable "investment", if you can ever say such a thing about a lottery game.




Best Top Prize Games
$1 - $2 Games - Silver Gold
$3 Games - Mahjong
$4-$5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best $100 (or lowest prize on website) Games
$1- $2 Games - Bingo Express
$3 Games - Crossword and QFG Crossword
$4 - $5 Games - Money Multiplier
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Overall Rated Games

1. Bejeweled
2. Fast 100*
3. Turbo Cash
4. Money Multiplier
5. Jacks are Wild

* Top Prize for this game is only $100


Games to Avoid

• Super Bingo #3011

Comings and Goings

A quiet week. No games retired and no new games launched. The OLG must be getting ready for a spring blitz.

Personal Play

The OLG has put in a concerted effort since the time of their scandals and the scathing report from the Ontario Ombudsman. Players should check every ticket on the little blue machines and sign each winning ticket. Last week I bought one Bejeweled and two Money Multipliers. I thought that I had won $5 on one of the Money Multipliers but low and behold the Bejeweled ticket turned out to be worth $10 too!

I am now at a cash rate of 38% and a total return on investment of 77%. I have received messages from a some readers over the past two weeks indicating that returns have been scarce of late. I am certainly heading in the wrong direction. I'm hoping to get some better news from readers this week.

Big winners over the past two weeks hailed from: Windsor, Mississauga, Thorold and Richmond Hill.


Remember to check and sign all tickets.

Doug

Bejeweled #1724 Keeps on Truckin

Bejewled #1724 got through another week without surrendering a Top Prize winner. It is a solid top pick but you can continue to play Turbo Cash #1713 if you have been playing that game for the past while. It is the second best game. At present, you have one chance in 175,000 to win one of the six Top Prizes available in Bejeweled and one chance in 146 to win $100 or more. There is only one Top Prize left in Turbo Cash but with only 14% of its tickets left to sell, you have a 1:205,000 chance to pick it up.



Best Top Prize Games
$1 - $2 Games - Silver Gold
$3 Games - Frogger and Mahjong
$4-$5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best $100 Prize (or more) Games
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express
$3 Games - Crossword and QFGCrossword
$4-$5 Games - Money Multtiplier
$10 Games - Bejeweled

Best Overall Games

1. Bejeweled
2. Fast 100*
3. Turbo Cash
4. Money Multiplier
5. Jacks are Wild

* - Top Prize in this game is only $100.

Games to Avoid

• Super Bingo #3011

Comings and Goings

After last week's purge, there is not much for the OLG to clean up other than Super Bingo. That game has less than 10% of its float left so I expect that it will be retired soon.

The new game for this week is More Lucky Lines #1733. This game is typical of $3 games. It begins its run as the 4th rated $3 Game behind Mahjong, Frogger, and Scrabble. Your chances to win any prize are 1:3.27 and your chance to win more than $3 is 1:5.87.

Personal Play

Mercifully, a frantic week has come to an end. I spread out last week buying a variety of tickets. Those tickets included one Bejeweled, one Turbo Cash, one Money Multiplier, one Jacks are Wild, one Mahjong, and one Silver Gold. Call it a means to break my well established habit of pounding away on Turbo Cash. My free spirit was crushed as I returned a measly $5. My cash rate is now below 40% and my total return on investment in now below 80%. Both of those numbers are good but I'm headed in the wrong direction.

My daughter was home this past week. She bought a Bejeweled and got her $10 back. She took that money and bought 3-Scrabble tickets. All were losers. She is well beyond the age of majority for those who think that I am corrupting a young soul.

As I sit here today, it definitely feels like spring is not far away. Good Luck.

Doug