Folks who have been reading this blog, and the comments to the blog, are aware of what transpired with More Lucky Lines. This is not a unique situation. Readers have called the OLG only to receive their circular logic that leads the OLG to an indefensible position. The bottom line is that they ran a game for which they sold 2.5 million tickets and then retired the game before a single Grand Prize was claimed. I don't care what the explanation is - it's wrong in principle. I'll be taking further action on this one.
I'm amazed that some posters are continuing to find More Lucky Lines tickets here and there. Good luck to them. The new top rated game is also in a scarcity situation with only 10%, +/- 2% of the tickets left to be sold. In raw terms, there are only an estimated 122,000 tickets out there and that is a mere 1/4 of the tickets that were left to sell for More Lucky Lines yet the OLG ...... I know - settle down Doug.
Two of the six original prizes of $100,000 remain to be claimed. The game is not great in terms of cashing for any prize but it is good for cashing a prize greater than the cost of the ticket. It has the best chance of cashing a middle prize (greater than $100) of any game with the exception of the $10 Cadillac game. I've been looking for tickets to the game without success. I hope that your luck is better.
Labour Day provided the OLG with a good opportunity to clean up the inventory of games. Six games were retired over the past two weeks including the $10 Turbo Cash game that was devoid of Grand Prizes. The jumbo Quest For Gold Crossword was mercifully put to bed along with Bingo, Red Hot 50's, Bingo Express, and yes, More Lucky Lines.
Two new games were introduced: the inter-provincial $100 Million Fortune and the $3 Horseshoes. Horseshoes is an average looking $3 game. It has a normal prize distribution and begins its life as the third rated $3 game of the 8 currently for sale. $10 Games should start out strong and Fortune is no exception. It is strong on the Grand Prize end with 12 - $1,000,000 prizes available and it is also good in the prizes of less than $100. The one thing I don't like about the game is the low number of reported prizes. The Inter-provincial games like to report down to the $1000 level and not the $100 level that the OLG does on its games. This means that only 125 prizes are reported against and that means that our estimates for remaining float size will be no closer than +/- 8%. Here is the prize breakdown for both games:
Horseshoes
2.6% of revenue paid to Grand Prize winners.
1.7% to winners of less than the Grand Prize and at least $100
47.7% to winners of less than $100 and more than $3
12.9% to winners of $3
35% to the OLG etc
Fortune
8.0% to Grand Prize winners
2.0% to winners of less than Grand Prize and at least $100
50.2% to winners of less than $100 and more than $10
9.5% to winners of $10
30.3% to the IPL
3 - Wild 10's tickets contained 1 winner of $20.
My trip to New York state introduced me to this menacing looking machine:
They dispense Scratch and Win tickets in the main area and you can purchase Lotto type games with the buttons in the first row. I suspect that the machines have an operating cost less than the 8% that sellers receive from the OLG. I wonder why they were not part of the OLG Modernization Plan? I guess that the association of variety store retailers has more clout than the Horse Racing industry that the OLG was happy to eviscerate. Thank goodness that Premier Wynne has mandated the OLG to ensure that the health of horse racing in Ontario is part of its Modernization Plan. The machine pictured is located at the Saratoga Race Track. Lets plop one down inside Woodbine and see what happens.
Best to all.
Doug
I'm amazed that some posters are continuing to find More Lucky Lines tickets here and there. Good luck to them. The new top rated game is also in a scarcity situation with only 10%, +/- 2% of the tickets left to be sold. In raw terms, there are only an estimated 122,000 tickets out there and that is a mere 1/4 of the tickets that were left to sell for More Lucky Lines yet the OLG ...... I know - settle down Doug.
Two of the six original prizes of $100,000 remain to be claimed. The game is not great in terms of cashing for any prize but it is good for cashing a prize greater than the cost of the ticket. It has the best chance of cashing a middle prize (greater than $100) of any game with the exception of the $10 Cadillac game. I've been looking for tickets to the game without success. I hope that your luck is better.
Top Rated Games
- $5 Money Multiplier #1769 - 10% of float left +/- 2%
- $10 Prestige #1741 - 23% +/- 7%
- $4 Bonus CFL #1168 - 74% +/- 3%
- $10 Wild 10's #1785 - 64% +/- 2%
- $10 Fortune #1779 - 100% +/- 8%
Games to Avoid
- $10 Classic Gold - all top prizes claimed. Interprovincial game.
- $5 Sapphire 7's - OLG has been milking this one while retiring Lucky Lines. Grrrr.
- $1 Lucky Lines - half the Grand Prizes claimed in first third of tickets sold.
- $3 Crossword - 1 chance in 2.3 million to win $50,000. Sucks.
- $2 Crazy 8's - 1 Grand Prize left and 40% of float to sell.
$1 - $2 Game Update
Blazing 7's is the best play in this area.$3 Game Update
Moving on from More Lucky Lines, Scrabble #1799 is the top rated game.$4 - $5 Game Update
Stick to the two games in the Top Rated Game area.$10 - $20 Game Update
Avoid Classic Gold. I don't like Cadillac either although CL66 still has a hankering for it.Comings and Goings
Labour Day provided the OLG with a good opportunity to clean up the inventory of games. Six games were retired over the past two weeks including the $10 Turbo Cash game that was devoid of Grand Prizes. The jumbo Quest For Gold Crossword was mercifully put to bed along with Bingo, Red Hot 50's, Bingo Express, and yes, More Lucky Lines.
Two new games were introduced: the inter-provincial $100 Million Fortune and the $3 Horseshoes. Horseshoes is an average looking $3 game. It has a normal prize distribution and begins its life as the third rated $3 game of the 8 currently for sale. $10 Games should start out strong and Fortune is no exception. It is strong on the Grand Prize end with 12 - $1,000,000 prizes available and it is also good in the prizes of less than $100. The one thing I don't like about the game is the low number of reported prizes. The Inter-provincial games like to report down to the $1000 level and not the $100 level that the OLG does on its games. This means that only 125 prizes are reported against and that means that our estimates for remaining float size will be no closer than +/- 8%. Here is the prize breakdown for both games:
Horseshoes
2.6% of revenue paid to Grand Prize winners.
1.7% to winners of less than the Grand Prize and at least $100
47.7% to winners of less than $100 and more than $3
12.9% to winners of $3
35% to the OLG etc
Fortune
8.0% to Grand Prize winners
2.0% to winners of less than Grand Prize and at least $100
50.2% to winners of less than $100 and more than $10
9.5% to winners of $10
30.3% to the IPL
Personal Play
3 - Wild 10's tickets contained 1 winner of $20.
Meanderings
My trip to New York state introduced me to this menacing looking machine:
They dispense Scratch and Win tickets in the main area and you can purchase Lotto type games with the buttons in the first row. I suspect that the machines have an operating cost less than the 8% that sellers receive from the OLG. I wonder why they were not part of the OLG Modernization Plan? I guess that the association of variety store retailers has more clout than the Horse Racing industry that the OLG was happy to eviscerate. Thank goodness that Premier Wynne has mandated the OLG to ensure that the health of horse racing in Ontario is part of its Modernization Plan. The machine pictured is located at the Saratoga Race Track. Lets plop one down inside Woodbine and see what happens.
Best to all.
Doug
