Prestige Dominates

During my absence,Prestige continued to assert its authority over the rest of the field. The game is a dominant choice with 11 of its 12 Grand Prizes remaining to be claimed and 30% of the ticket float sold. The game provides 10.6 cents out of every dollar to the Grand Prize winners which is the best for existing games and 50% of total game revenue is returned to prizes of less than $100. This is the second best game from that perspective. I'm going to have to come up with lots of titles for future blog posts as this game is going to remain on top for some time to come. My only complaint about this game is that the tickets are too long! They're hard to fit into any sort of pocket. Pretty lame complaint, no?

Best Rated Games

1. Prestige 71%
2. Fast 200's 36%
3. Cash Blast 43%
4. Cash For Life 35%
5. $200 Million 61%

Games to Avoid

1. Keno 1410 21%
2. 20X Lucky 15%
3. Horseshoes 14%
4. Crossword 3203 28%
5. Cross Express 33%

$1 - $2 Game Update

Fast 200's continues to be highly rated. It is the clear choice in this area and a good choice overall.

$3 Game Update

There has been nothing worth playing in this area for some time but Cashingo is beginning to look good and one of our readers did have a $500 cash already on this game.

$4 - $5 Game Update

Cash For Life is a good choice and Money Multiplier can also be played.

$10 - $20 Game Update

Prestige is dominant. Reader Trinitron also likes $200 Million due to it's high rate of winners at 1 for every 3 tickets. No argument there.

Comings and Goings

While I was away the OLG was busy getting rid of five games. Two of them were games with no grand Prizes left to claim and two others were games that were rated as being poor choices so I have nothing to gripe about. Scrabble 1754 was one of the games and I have been whining about that one for some time. Interestingly, Bingo 3009 was retired while Bingo 3008 was not. The former game was only introduced in early July and had two thirds of its float left. Bingo 3008 has been on sale since late January and has 17% of its float left. How does one explain that decision? A call to the OLG call center provided the answer: A number of the tickets had been voided and were being used for demonstration purposes by the OLG. Those voided tickets somehow were sent out to retailers. Once the OLG learned about the problem, the game was cancelled. Anyone with a winning Bingo 3009 ticket is able to cash it.

Super Bingo 3013 was introduced recently. It is a jumbo game with over 10 million tickets available. I'm not crazy about the game as only 3.3% of total revenue is returned to winners of $100 or more. That is very poor. There are lots of prizes of less than $100 but I would like to see more going into the grand prizes of which there are 10, each worth $50,000. That's 10 out of 10 million tickets.

Personal Play

Four Prestige tickets contained one $10 winner. Sucks. My overall results are now down to where one would expect after starting the year well. I feel that I'm due for some better luck.

I'll write about the US games next time. I lost on all tickets with the exception of a free ticket on a $1 game. My foray into Powerball also yielded nothing but it is hard to turn your back on a $216 Million jackpot. That's crazy stuff!

Good to be back.

Doug