Millionaire Jumbo Bucks (Ga.) question

Reply #20

WILLWRK4NUMBERS — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:41:04 GMT

HA!

GOOD LUCK WITH THIS!!!!

You gotta live outside of 285 to hit really big. Try Conyers/Covington area. They hit out there for over 10,000 all the time. And they say they don't know where the winning tickets will show???? Baa Humbug (lol

Reply #19

dr65 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:27:58 GMT

Tiggs, I looked at that after I wrote it and posted it and thought now who does that remind me of? Yes and pumpi immediately came to mind.

I don't know how he does it..unless he just sits there - verbalizes all the what if's and has a writing crew doing it for him..I just don't see how he

can think so much AND write it all down. I'd go crazy

GOOD JOB on your scratcher!! That's a good one because so many are either $0 or the price of the ticket. A $50 win is a very decent win! WTG... [ More ]

Reply #18

tiggs95 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:34:35 GMT

Pumpi???...:)..Your fingers must be on fire after this post..I bought a scratchoff this morning and told the girl they should outlaw these and I bought one..50.00 winner so I guess complaining is the way to go..

Reply #17

dr65 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:16:02 GMT

wow....I need a break...I don't know but all of a sudden...I feel just alittle like pumpi....I don't know how he does it...

Reply #16

dr65 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:14:42 GMT

Very interesting and great stuff jwhou! I'm more of a spontaneous player where, I'll more or less keep as many mental notes as I can, ie: Eagles

tickets - pretty shabby although the other day I got $100 on one..I've won $100 before too but have won more $0 and $5's to make it anything

very enjoyable to play....Cash Fever...so so...the biggest I won there was $100 also and a lot of $5 and double your $5 hits with the double dollar

sign...actually, I like them better than Eagles and Steel... [ More ]

Reply #15

jwhou — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:45:58 GMT

I take the cost of the tickets into consideration when rating the tickets. Either by normalizing the odds versus how many tickets that a set sum would buy or by normalizing the prize value as a multiple of the ticket price. The curves are remarkably similar when you normalize them but there are more overall prizes with the $20 tickets then with the lower price tickets, the bingo games are an exception to this but you can see that the Bingo games have more prize levels by interspersing additional... [ More ]

Reply #14

dr65 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:12:10 GMT

WOW!! no way!

$10,000,000

That seals the deal....bring it to PA and I'll be a regular

Could you just imagine scratching off that amount? I'd probably instantly drop dead.

Thanks Olsaman, that is awesome

Reply #13

Olsaman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:03:49 GMT

From dr65:

I think I even read somewhere that one state has

a $50 ticket...that is insanity. If they bring that to PA, I might get a case of temporary insanity...but then I think I'd get might angry and leave it

to the permanently insane to continue to try their luck with.

Texas lottery has a $50 instant ticket with a top prize of $10,000,000

Reply #12

dr65 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:26:59 GMT

OP, you have to be very careful with the $20 tickets. Don't test your luck with them. All things considered, I do better on the $5.00 tickets and

believe me, I buy enough of our $20 tickets here in PA. I've won $100 many times on a $5 ticket - that's 20 times the ticket price...for me to do that

on a $20 ticket..I'd have to win $400 consistently. Sure the $400 is better than the $100 but consider this too: $20 buys 4 $5.00 tickets...and 1

$20.00 If I have $200 I want spend on scratch of... [ More ]

Reply #11

jonathan3408 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:42:29 GMT

I have won multiple times in the same store. I spent maybe a good 40 dollars and came out with 100

Reply #10

Tnplayer805 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:36:40 GMT

Funny that you mention this ticket. I bought two today and lost on both. I've NEVER had any luck on GA instant tickets. On a side note... I did buy a $20 Mill Club from TN yesterday and brought home $100... The prizes are there in most cases. In fact, I usually stick to one or two $10 - $20 tickets. I've won $500 twice after buying two tickets... Usually the first one is a dud then the 2nd was the winner. I've won $100 or $50 more times than I can count doing the same method. I've also lost a go... [ More ]

Reply #9

lank — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:57:19 GMT

did you buy all your ticket from the same roll

Reply #8

Rowen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:52:54 GMT

From my experience of buying $20/30 tix one at a time from different stores, the outcome was just awful. It was like I got the dud from every single packs when I did it that way. It would have been better to buy 3 tixs in a row since that's the break even point, at least you are getting some of your money back while you're chasing the bigger prizes. Not worse feeling that spending that kind of money and not winning anything

Reply #7

jwhou — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:57:03 GMT

Buying more from the same roll is a two edged sword. There's a minimum prize amount guarantee in each pack so buying an entire pack will guarantee that you will win something but not every pack has larger winners. If you take a look at the prize structure you will notice that several of the lower value prizes will have the number of prizes comparable to the number of packs which you can calculate by taking the total number of tickets printed and dividing it by the number of tickets in a pack. Wh... [ More ]

Reply #6

Lucky4Life — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:41:36 GMT

took that $200 today, bought 10 with it and won $255. My system works

Reply #5

Lucky4Life — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:22:37 GMT

That is exactly how you have to play scratchers. I spent $80 for 4 tix yesterday and won 150, spent 160 today and won 200. You will hit it eventually, just have to get more of the roll

Reply #4

x1kosmic — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:55:24 GMT

My experience with TN. Millionares $20 dollar ticket is:

Save up and buy more than One at a time,

....alsoThe first few on the Roll have hit for me,

I got a 000 (zero) first on the roll and won $200

just my 2 cents

Reply #3

jwhou — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:43:33 GMT

That's truly unusual, with odds of 1 in 3.01 for any prize, the odds of not having any prize what so ever in 24 tickets would be ( 1 - 1/3.01 )^ 24 or 1 in 16,177 which means that there's a 16176 in 16177 chance of you having at least won one $20 prize in 24 tickets. Long odds, but just as with winning the lottery, it does happen. I would expect you to have had at least one such winning ticket after 6 tickets and average one such win ever two tickets in the long run.

Given that scratch off ti... [ More ]

Reply #2

casual-player — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:15:04 GMT

Shoot, I wish we were hitting 1 out of 7. I bought another one last night and still NOTHING But I think you're right...no more $20 tix for me. Way expensive, and apparently this just isn't my game I just figured the odds were better. That's what I get for thinking

Reply #1

Rowen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:57:49 GMT

I know the feeling because I struck out on the $20 and $30 tickets too. I only broke even 1 out of 7 tickets I bought. I actually done better with $2 and $10 tickets. You figure you would break even 1 out of 3 times!!!

Maybe try buying 2 $10 tix instead of 1 $20 tix.

Millionaire Jumbo Bucks (Ga.) question

casual-player — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:50:22 GMT

Hello all. This is my 1st time posting (to any forum), so please be kind. I am so bothered by something that I had to find someone to ask their opinion.

If any of you have ever played the $20 scratch off Millionaire Jumbo Bucks, how did you do? I'm only asking this because I have played 14 different times now, and haven't won anything...not even a Free ticket. And it's not just me. My girlfriend has played 10 times and nothing for her as well. This is a really expensive game, and it claims Hi... [ More ]