Ok.....so, I went into the old trailer and dragged out the digital camera to get pictures of the big ones.  Some of the pics might not be in the best quality....because I couldn't use the scanner to scan the big winners.

5/23 KACHING Report

It started small, but wound up big.

Friday:

Bought a few $1 Junior Jumbo Bucks tickets.  Wound up with a free ticket.

Saturday:

That morning, we went to the trailer (before it was moved over here) to do some stuff before the big move of each half of this double-wide.  I decided to cash in that Junior Jumbo and buy some more tickets....in particular, the $2 Jumbo Bucks Classic.  I wound up hitting $5 (5 x $1), 2 $2 winners (each via 2 x $1), and a free ticket.  After going out to grab some stuff (notably white paint for the ceiling), we went by the same store to cash in those tickets.  I decided to let it ride and buy some $2 Vacation Cash tickets.  Well.....on the 2nd and 3rd tickets.....

....hit a $3 winner (on the right) and on the ticket after that (on the left).......hit a big one.  It may be blurry, but in Game #10, I hit the "Cash" symbol to instantly win all 10 prizes.....8 $4s, $8, and $10....for a total of $50.  After calling it quits at the trailer for the day, I went back to the very same store, kept $40 in cash, and bought a $10 Cash Explosion and a $3 Weekly Bonus 2008.  Well....the luck continued.  On the Weekly Bonus, I hit a single # match for $15.  On the Cash Explosion, I won a free ticket.  I went back into the store, kept $15 in cash, and bought 5 $2 Triple 777 tickets.  On the last one, I hit 2 red 7s for triple $2 each and a black 7 for $2 for a total of $14.  I went back in, getting some exercise in the process, and took my dough and called it quits.

Sunday:

We went back to the trailer.  Before that, though, we went to the very same store before we got there and I decided to go in and buy $10 worth of tickets......5 $2 Triple Fortune tickets.  I don't have pictures, because I cashed them in before I got back to take pictures, but here's what happened.  4 of the 5 tickets were winners.  In order.....$27 (3 x $9), $15 ($$$ for triple $3 + $$$ for triple $2), loser, $6 ($$$ $1 + $3), and a free ticket.  I hit another $50 in winners.  I cashed them in.

Later on in the day, we went to another store to get gas.  I decided to buy a $2 Fast 5s (last one in the roll) and 4 $2 Mega Bucks.  I won $2 and a free Fantasy 5 ticket on the $2 Fast 5s (for the KACHING Report, it counts as a $3 winner -- 2 x $1 + Fantasy 5 logo), $2 ($2), and a free ticket on 2 of the Mega Bucks.  I decided, with a couple of spare $1 bills that I had, to go into another store later that evening, and bought a $10 Jumbo Jumbo Bucks and a $1 Junior Jumbo Bucks.  I wound up with a free ticket on both.  That $11 was key to another big one that came up tomorrow.

Monday:

I went to Kroger with my mother to grab some groceries and stuff.  I took that $11 from yesterday and went to the customer service desk to cash them in.  A very pretty (and I mean H-O-T) young gal, who was probably just a couple of years younger than I am (and I'm 22, FYI), took the tickets and scanned them....telling me I had $11.  I looked in the display case and, instead of taking the money and going over to the lotto vending machine, saw they had the $1 Double Your Luck and the $10 Cash Explosion tickets.  I got 1 of each.  I didn't win anything on the $1 ticket, but on the Cash Explosion ticket.....

....does that look familiar to something in my 1st blog post here?  I'll be darned if I didn't hit another firecracker symbol to win all 15 prizes.....10 $5s and 5 $10s......the same exact method as my 1st $100 winner on those.  I went back to the customer service desk and thanked the pretty girl for that ticket.

Later on....I went to the same store where I hit that $50 winner and the $50 combo of winners and cashed in that $100 winner.  I kept $80 in cash and bought 2 $10 Millionaire Mania tickets.  I wound up hitting $15 ($10 + $5) and $20 ($10 + 2 x $5) on them.

Friday:

I went to cash in that $35 in winners.  I kept $20 in cash and bought 2 of the then-new $5 $250,000 Cash tickets, 2 of the then-new $2 Betty Boop tickets (about darn time the GA Lottery gets a licensed brand game besides Monopoly), and a $1 Junior Jumbo Bucks.  I hit $3 ($3) and a free ticket on the Betty Boop tickets.  The 1st $5 ticket was a dud.  The 2nd.....

....a truck symbol to win all 15 prizes....all of them $4 for a total of $60 (sorry for the blurry photo....remember...didn't have a scanner available).  I went back into the store and took the moolah.

I've never had such a huge streak of winners like this, not even back in February when I hit 2 $100 winners and a $70 winner.

The KACHING Meter for May 23, 2008:  a 37.2 -- a brand new KACHING record, surpassing the 1.92 (what now would be a 19.2) from 2005.

I'll post the 5/30 KACHING Report probably tomorrow.  I'm kinda tired right now.

Until next time, may all your scratchers be nothing but big winners.