Jacks are Wild #1701 - A Stand Out Choice

Jacks are Wild #1701 is a strong play this week and no other game is even close. Keno #1409 had a Grand Prize winner of $50k last week rendering the game no longer playable.



At present, only one in four tickets "Jacks are Wild" remains to be sold yet four of the six Grand Prizes remain to be claimed. The odds of finding a $100,000 winner is 1 in 222,000. Yes, your chances are slim but the wager is justified.

Keno #1409 remains the best $1000 Value Play. The best $1-$2 play is Go Bananas, and the best $10 - $20 play is Extravaganza.

Cashes of $10,000 or more this past week were sold in: Port Dover, Walsingham, Brockville, Mississauga, and Ottawa.



Comings and Goings

Super Bingo #3010 and Roulette #1689 were both retired this past week. Super Bingo had one Grand Prize outstanding and 7% of its tickets left to sell. Roulette also had a Grand Prize outstanding and 25% of its tickets left to sell.

By comparison, the OLG continues to sell Horseshoes (20% of tickets left), More Lucky (26%), Cash for Life #1155 (11%) and Classic Black (59%). There are no Grand Prizes left for any of these games. Do you see a problem?

The OLG advises its customers of the following: "This list shows all OLG INSTANT games currently in market. OLG stops selling INSTANT games with top prizes of $100,000 or more once all the top prizes have been claimed. If you are looking for a game that is not on this list, please call our OLG Support Centre at 1-800-387-0098." Cash for Life and Classic Black both have Top Prizes of $100,000 or more. Why are they still being sold? The OLG sold about 60,000 tickets for those two games last week! The OLG must have a definition for "Top Prize" that is different than mine.


Personal Play

Two of two "Jacks are Wild" were winners returning $15. Two of four "Keno" tickets were winners returning $6. That is the best week since reporting has begun but I am yet to show a profit in any single week. Total return on investment stands at 44%.

Meanwhile, a reader in Collingwood reports winning on 3 of 4 "Jacks are Wild" with a return of $75. That was offset by a poor old reader in Scarborough who was 1 for 11, returning $5. That's bad.

Good Luck,
Doug

















 

Jacks are Wild #1701 Takes Over Top Spot

Apologies for the delay in updating the blog. A vacation trying to win money in Saratoga betting horses proved fruitless for the umpteenth time in a row.

It's been 22 days since the last update and we have a new game to play - Jacks are Wild. Cash for Life #1155 had one of its two remaining top prizes claimed moving it into unplayable status. Jacks are Wild has 5 of its 6 $100,000 prizes left and has sold 54% of its tickets. You have a 1 in 300,000 chance to win $100,000 with a $5 investment. Here's hoping that the game remains playable as there is no other game close to being a good choice at the moment.

Keno #1409 remains the game with the best value chance to win $1000 or more. The biggest selling game is the Crossword #1298. There are, at present, 3 Crossword games in play. The other two are on their last legs and should be canceled soon by OLG. The new game has a massive float of over 20 million tickets. The OLG is currently selling over 500,000 Scratch and Win Tickets daily of which almost 140,000 are for this version of Crossword. All 16 Grand Prizes of  $50,000 remain after selling 16% of the tickets. Maybe this will become a future play for blog readers.

Five new games have been introduced over the past three weeks. One of them is brand new and OLG has yet to post game details. For the other four, I like to calculate what percentage of winning tickets net more than the cost of the ticket. Somehow OLG has convinced us that getting ones money back is a form of winning. This principle is at its worst in penny slots where players play 80 cents per pull, win 20, and the machine rings like the person was a winner. How crazy is that?

Here is the breakdown of the new games:

$3 Luck Dragon Doubler - 42% of winning tickets are for $3.
$4 Cash For Life - 35% of winning tickets are for $4.
$5 Cash Lines - 51% of winning tickets are for $5.
$10 Extravaganza - 39% of winning tickets are for $10.