Cash For Life Family $10 Extends Its Lead

Prestige lost one of its remaining Grand Prizes this past week while Cash For Life Family $10 did not. The result is that the Cash For Life game is extending its lead. Over 20% of the float has now been sold and all three Grand Prizes remain. I did not see that the Prestige Winner was listed on the OLG site thereby confirming the predictions of a few of the readers of this blog.

Your chances to win $3000/week for life ($2,025,000 Present Value) are presently 940,000:1. Another reason to like this game was offered by a regular contributor who points out that all of the profits for the game remain within Ontario whereas Prestige is an Inter-provincial Lottery Game which means that Ontario shares the profits with our confreres  in other regions.

Top Rated Games

1. Cash For Life $10 (estimated 79% of float left to be sold)
2. Money Multiplier (13%)
3. Prestige (54%)
4. $200 Million (51%)
5. Emeralds Seven (44%)

Games to Avoid

1. Black Pearls (17%)
2. Cherry Triple (34%)
3. Fat Cat (55%)
4. QFG Crossword (90%)
5. Mahjong (57%)

$1 - $2 Game Update

Cash For Life $2 is the choice here. Two Grand Prizes remain and there is always the chance of winning a free ticket to the $4 game.

$3 Game Update

This area has been in trouble for some time now. The best pick is Keno #1412. It will be interesting to track QFG Crossword. The game is poorly rated and it is a jumbo game with a float of over 25 million tickets. Let other players bang away on that one.

$4 - $5 Game Update

Money Multiplier towers above the other games here. Next in line is Emerald's Seven. A reader continues to play that game exclusively and I'm looking forward to hearing of his exploits.

$10 - $20 Game Update

Avoid Classic Gold. All the others are good choices.

Comings and Goings

The last of the Christmas games was retired this week when Instant Gift Pack was recalled. The OLG did well with this game selling an estimated 80% of the tickets that were sold as bundled smaller games. I was surprised by how well the game sold.

Personal Play

Three Prestige tickets and one $10 Cash For Life ticket returned exactly nothing. My numbers to begin the year are very poor. Have to soldier on.

Commentary

There was a lot of commentary this past week on the blog. I read it with interest. Some of it was with respect to the OLG Keno game. I don't know much about it but will take a look. There was also some suggestion about "rigging". To be clear, no one was suggesting that the lottery is fixed. I agree with the comment that the Lottery Organizations have no reason to do so. The odds are in their favour and always will be. A friend at work plays the Sports Lotto. When I commented that the posted odds for games are poor his response was that he understood that but he has the confidence that the OLG profits go to improving infrastructure within the province. That is a huge point that the OLG would never overlook.

That said, Trinitron comments on the seeming pattern that is inherent with Quick Picks. I have noticed the same thing but I have never worked out the odds. He claims an unusual number of tickets with consecutive numbers. That should only happen in one out of every three tickets. I also notice a certain symmetry and distribution in the Quick Pick numbers. It is not often that I see bunched numbers. The actual draw of numbers can be squeaky clean while having a randomizer program for Quick Picks that is slightly less than random. I am going to see what I can find out about that from the OLG.

Best.

Doug