This was my favorite game to play - sparingly I might add. Compared to all the other $20 tickets, this one had the best odds and most grand prizes available. That's the only reason why I played it. The looooong shot chance of getting a BIG ONE. As it was, I did really good on this game. Recently won $100 and $30 on 2 of 3 tickets purchased over the past 2 weeks. Unless you hit it big on a game, over the long run if you bother to keep track of W/L, you'll find you've lost far more than you won. This game for me was different. I broke even/ made a small profit from playing over the past 2 years, simply because I kept winning 20, 25, 30 50 and 100 on them.
I guess it was a few months back I noticed they had disappeared from the vending machines, and then most of the stores. I found them in the liquor store next to my publix. Then today I went in to get one and they told me that some guy called, told them to pull them and then later came by and took all the remaining tickets.
FLaLottery site unceremoniously pulled them with imo, no warning. Why are they already pulling them a week before the last official selling day? That's a load of BS. something sure stinks!
As others mentioned, some guy JUST won 1MM on it on the 7th. Leaving 5 of 10 10MM prizes and 68? of 120 1MM prizes. Still better remaining prizes than any of the other 20 or 25 scratchers.
Regarding the hard to scratch - I thought that was just me. And BDB is not the only game that's hard to scratch. I found that a pocket knife worked great for me - some bear grillis folding knife my bro gave me. Found it good for something.
From people I've talked to/lottery vendors I don't buy it for one second that the FL is saying it wasn't popular.
I think the real story is this game was a much better deal for the player than the state and the state wants to get all it can. They probably hope that by pulling BDB, dollars will flow to the crappier games. For most cases, probably so. For me, nope. To quote Marshall Mathers, "One of those fingers on each hand up."
I'm probably going to boycott florida lottery scratchers now as this move by the state clearly shows they are about as honest as a back alley dice game.