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Thanks, dr65! Very impressive to win $100 on a $1 ticket!
I've found Platinum Crossword ($5) to be a big dud. I've won like once out of ten times. Both #57 and #59 lost tonight. Too bad someone got #58 before I did; it might have won. Again, I NEVER win on the last ticket, and rarely on the next to last. On $1,000 a Week for Life, I got a $10 on #147.
The beginning of the roll on the new Diamond Mine ($3) ticket was good today - $6 on #000, and $15 on #002.
I'm taking a break from Big Winner Spectaculars. They don't seem to win any more than the under $10 tickets. They have to for me to spend much on them.
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Quote: Originally posted by MattfromPA on Jul 20, 2010
Thanks, dr65! Very impressive to win $100 on a $1 ticket!
I've found Platinum Crossword ($5) to be a big dud. I've won like once out of ten times. Both #57 and #59 lost tonight. Too bad someone got #58 before I did; it might have won. Again, I NEVER win on the last ticket, and rarely on the next to last. On $1,000 a Week for Life, I got a $10 on #147.
The beginning of the roll on the new Diamond Mine ($3) ticket was good today - $6 on #000, and $15 on #002.
I'm taking a break from Big Winner Spectaculars. They don't seem to win any more than the under $10 tickets. They have to for me to spend much on them.
Thank you!
omg! You are not kidding with your statement about the Platinum Crosswords...they are duds! When they were very new, I did get 4 rings on
the bottom bonus part but that's just PA Lottery's M/O...entice people with new tickets with wins of mulitple times the ticket price and make them
think - What a great ticket! The okay winners on the new tickets dry up after about 2 weeks and go back to $0 or $ticket price wins.
Obviously, they have to pay the top prizes but with millions & millions of tickets across PA and the constant infusion of 'new' and exciting tickets
each month..that makes finding a great ticket almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
I know the feeling of buying a ticket then wanting to go back for another only to find the next in line is gone. You have to wonder, was that the
one?
Yesterday I bought a string of old $2 Red Hot Tripler tickets and ticket number 099 won $500. I was shocked because I thought for sure
each winning amount would show only $1 for a total of $10. So that was a nice surprise. I'm not sure how many tickets are in those packs but
149 rings a bell somehow. So a decent winner at the 2/3 pack mark.
I tried the Diamond Mine too and won a couple times near the start of the pack (001, 002, 005) but just $3 at different locations. The 002 is
a common number (with us anyway so far) - maybe these are the ones to buy at the start of the pack. Wouldn't it be nice to catch the top prize
on 002?
Your $15 win is a good one! The tickets that win 5 times the ticket price are a thrill. I notice that happens with the Fantastic 5's ($5) ...$25
winners are pretty good with those. One of them was the last in the pack #059 @ $25.00 and I have seen them before at the #027 point.
I hope you find one that reveals:
1MILL!
Good luck with them - they are fun to play. (most times)
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Agree! I was thinking the same thing about new games in PA. But Diamond Mine's been unlucky in that roll after the two winners. It's like there are BIG stretches of losers. Have you noticed more losers in all the games lately? I had a horrible day today - struck out on $40 worth of tickets. Thought #90 on BWS (which I tried again finally) might be good, but NOOO. This is a good place to vent!
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I don't play $1 tickets very often, but thanks for the suggestion! I'll need to try to get some of that money back tomorrow, and I'm playing just one kind of game - maybe I'll try S6s.
BlackJack's not bad after #90. I've had my share of winners before on instant games (nothing over $100 yet,) but it just seems I've had fewer winners than usual lately. Wondered what others are experiencing.
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I seem to do well on ticket numbers 008, 012, and 025. With that said I rarely win on tickets 013, 017, and 023. (Since I play mostly $5 or higher... I rarely see many high numbered tickets.)
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$31 spent today on the new games, and $6 back. At this rate, I'm going back to the older games. Anyone notice the $60,000 row on Diamond Mine is almost always one off on losing tickets? That's pretty dirty.
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On $1 games all numbers are unlucky in my opinion. I try to stay away from them.
On $2 games I've always had good luck in the 50s and 80s.
On $3 games #023 has been the best for me. Also anything above 75. Unlucky are 001-019.
On $5 games anything above 010. Unlucky include the wicked #019 and #038.
On $10 games I've won and lost equally on all numbers so I have no lucky and unlucky tickets.
On $20 games same as the $10s.
I like to get the #000 and #199($1), #99($2-3), #039($5), and #19($10-20), a.k.a. first and last ticket. Never really made any amount of money from them, but 7 out of 10 times they will be break even.
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Good info., fastscratcher10! You might be right about #001-019 on $3 games, because besides tickets 0, 2, and 11 (one out of 2 times), not much won around the beginning on the Diamond Mine tickets. I did win 3/3 times today on DM tickets (#s were 35, 58, 59), for $15 total.
The 10x the Money tickets remain pretty unlucky all around. Might stay away from them.
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Thanks for the report, dr65. What do you think of this theory - I don't think there's any set pattern, but certain numbers definitely have a much higher win %. They might switch it up with #127 winning one time and #128 the next time.
Diamond Mines are still doing ok, but lots of $3 winners today only. It seems they put two winners together a lot in that game.
10x the Money and 9s in a Line still doing terribly for me - even in the hundreds on 10x the Money. I just get a rare $2 winner. After an original $5 win on #6, it's mostly 0x the Money.
I'm about maxed out on lottery for a couple days, but will report any more findings.