Another week revealed no further Top Prizes in the recommended game. Total ticket sales have now just crossed the 50% mark and five of the six Top Prizes of $250,000 remain to be claimed. The game provides a 1 in 146 chance to win $100 or more and one chance in 150,000 to win a Top Prize. Both numbers are the best of any game currently offered for sale.
A note to players is that you play this game by scratching the symbols up top (there are 22 of them), then scratch off the corresponding coordinates below. If you play like Norm in Mississauga and scratch all of the symbols below to begin, you'll have a hard time figuring out if you have won anything! Norm did verify his ticket at the ticket checker machine (like everyone should do for every ticket) but using only that method takes the fun out of playing the game.
Best Top Prize Games
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express
$3 Games - Mahjong
$4 - $5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 - $20 Games - Bejeweled
Best $100 Prize Games (or lowest prize listed on web site)
$1 - $2 Games - Pick 3 & Bingo Express
$3 Games - Quest For Gold Crossword
$4 - $5 Games - Money Multiplier
$10 - $20 Games - Bejeweled
Best Overall Rated Games
Games to Avoid
Three new games were introduced this past week: $3 Super Bingo #3012, $3 Tetris #1737 and $20 $200 Million Supreme #1740.
The Super Bingo game is an exact duplicate to Super Bingo #3011 which remains in play. Be careful as you want to avoid game #3011 as all of its Top Prizes have been claimed. We should see the OLG retire 3011 shortly as less than 10% of its ticket float remains. Game #3012 has a large ticket float of over 10 million tickets so this game will be with us for some time. One aspect of the game is that it offers 10 Top Prizes of $50,000 but only 4 for each of the $25,000 and $10,000 and $5000 prizes. This means that you have to be luckier to win a smaller prize. I have trouble getting my head around that one.
Tetris has 2 - $75,000 Top Prizes and 2- $25,000 prizes. The next highest prize is $1,112 ,which is quite a drop off of intermediary prizes. Your chances of "Any Cash" or "Any Cash more than the price of the ticket" are not very good when compared to other $3 games.
$200 Million Supreme presents me with a conundrum. It is the same problem that I had with Bejeweled versus Turbo Cash. The game does not score well on my evaluation system but that is because of how I have set up the evaluation. The game only has 559 prizes of $1000 or more in a float of almost 15 million tickets. $1000 is the smallest prize listed on the OLG site for the game. As a result, my method gives it a poor secondary prize rating. But (and this is a big but) the game is rife with prizes of $100 and lower. Your chances to win any prize are one in 3.00 and your chances to win any prize more than the cost of the ticket is one in 4.30. These are excellent numbers. It makes sense as any player spending $20 on a ticket is bound to become discouraged easily if they have even a few consecutive losing tickets. Instead, the lottery gurus want to give you lots of small encouragement. Works for me!
What is wrong is my overall evaluation system. I'm happy with the Top Prize evaluation system but I need to come up with a new formula for the second system. $200 Million Supreme is a good game, if you have the resources to play it. Any input from readers to help me with this dilemma would be appreciated.
Four Bejeweled tickets included two winners totaling $65 boosting my Year to Date return to 94%. Thanks to a reader who sent me a comment about this subject. The 94% figure represents what I have received back of my total investment. Another way to express this is to say that I am down 6% on the year.
Thanks to readers who have sent me questions and information about their results. Some are bad, such as Frank in Scarborough who went 0 for 9 with Bejeweled, and some are good such as a reader in Mississauga who took his entire profit of $150 and invested it in 15 Bejeweled tickets that returned $220. His win included a $100 winner which is something that has yet to happen to me. Congratulations.
I publish a link to blog updates through my Twitter address of @Usockem. Through that channel I discovered a Twitter address @ScratchOdds and its respective web site of www.scratchodds.com . The site allows you to download an "App" that provides the remaining prize data that the OLG publishes daily, to your mobile device. There is no evaluation of the data but it does allow you to check any games that you might be buying at the time of purchase. Not sure if the owners have a scheme to monetize the "App" but it is free for now.
This blog only updates weekly so I would recommend that players use the site to get up to date information on remaining prizes. But don't leave me forever - this is the only place where you can get commentary on the "Games People Play". Please follow us both on Twitter - I promise to follow you in return.
Sorry for the long post.
Doug
A note to players is that you play this game by scratching the symbols up top (there are 22 of them), then scratch off the corresponding coordinates below. If you play like Norm in Mississauga and scratch all of the symbols below to begin, you'll have a hard time figuring out if you have won anything! Norm did verify his ticket at the ticket checker machine (like everyone should do for every ticket) but using only that method takes the fun out of playing the game.
Best Top Prize Games
$1 - $2 Games - Bingo Express
$3 Games - Mahjong
$4 - $5 Games - Instant Millions
$10 - $20 Games - Bejeweled
Best $100 Prize Games (or lowest prize listed on web site)
$1 - $2 Games - Pick 3 & Bingo Express
$3 Games - Quest For Gold Crossword
$4 - $5 Games - Money Multiplier
$10 - $20 Games - Bejeweled
Best Overall Rated Games
- Bejeweled
- Fast 100
- Jacks are Wild
- Mahjong
- Money Multiplier
Games to Avoid
- Crossword #1299
- Super Bingo #3011
Comings and Goings
Three new games were introduced this past week: $3 Super Bingo #3012, $3 Tetris #1737 and $20 $200 Million Supreme #1740.
The Super Bingo game is an exact duplicate to Super Bingo #3011 which remains in play. Be careful as you want to avoid game #3011 as all of its Top Prizes have been claimed. We should see the OLG retire 3011 shortly as less than 10% of its ticket float remains. Game #3012 has a large ticket float of over 10 million tickets so this game will be with us for some time. One aspect of the game is that it offers 10 Top Prizes of $50,000 but only 4 for each of the $25,000 and $10,000 and $5000 prizes. This means that you have to be luckier to win a smaller prize. I have trouble getting my head around that one.
Tetris has 2 - $75,000 Top Prizes and 2- $25,000 prizes. The next highest prize is $1,112 ,which is quite a drop off of intermediary prizes. Your chances of "Any Cash" or "Any Cash more than the price of the ticket" are not very good when compared to other $3 games.
$200 Million Supreme presents me with a conundrum. It is the same problem that I had with Bejeweled versus Turbo Cash. The game does not score well on my evaluation system but that is because of how I have set up the evaluation. The game only has 559 prizes of $1000 or more in a float of almost 15 million tickets. $1000 is the smallest prize listed on the OLG site for the game. As a result, my method gives it a poor secondary prize rating. But (and this is a big but) the game is rife with prizes of $100 and lower. Your chances to win any prize are one in 3.00 and your chances to win any prize more than the cost of the ticket is one in 4.30. These are excellent numbers. It makes sense as any player spending $20 on a ticket is bound to become discouraged easily if they have even a few consecutive losing tickets. Instead, the lottery gurus want to give you lots of small encouragement. Works for me!
What is wrong is my overall evaluation system. I'm happy with the Top Prize evaluation system but I need to come up with a new formula for the second system. $200 Million Supreme is a good game, if you have the resources to play it. Any input from readers to help me with this dilemma would be appreciated.
Personal Play
Four Bejeweled tickets included two winners totaling $65 boosting my Year to Date return to 94%. Thanks to a reader who sent me a comment about this subject. The 94% figure represents what I have received back of my total investment. Another way to express this is to say that I am down 6% on the year.
Thanks to readers who have sent me questions and information about their results. Some are bad, such as Frank in Scarborough who went 0 for 9 with Bejeweled, and some are good such as a reader in Mississauga who took his entire profit of $150 and invested it in 15 Bejeweled tickets that returned $220. His win included a $100 winner which is something that has yet to happen to me. Congratulations.
Other News
I publish a link to blog updates through my Twitter address of @Usockem. Through that channel I discovered a Twitter address @ScratchOdds and its respective web site of www.scratchodds.com . The site allows you to download an "App" that provides the remaining prize data that the OLG publishes daily, to your mobile device. There is no evaluation of the data but it does allow you to check any games that you might be buying at the time of purchase. Not sure if the owners have a scheme to monetize the "App" but it is free for now.
This blog only updates weekly so I would recommend that players use the site to get up to date information on remaining prizes. But don't leave me forever - this is the only place where you can get commentary on the "Games People Play". Please follow us both on Twitter - I promise to follow you in return.
Sorry for the long post.
Doug
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