Good thread. First off, I know I buy WAY too many $10.00 and $20.00 tickets each day. I have to travel for work and anytime I stop for fuel or coffee I try one or two or three or if I'm trying to catch up as many as five or six. I've already had six $10.00 and five $20.00 losers in a row. Probably should call the 800 number. BTW, they were the LAST five and six in a pack.
The $10.00 Christmas tickets "Winner Green" were pretty good for about 3 weeks. From mid Nov. thru the first week in Dec. I couldn't buy 3 in a row without hitting at least a $20.00 winner. I had seven $100.00 winners. Five on the bonus block with santa's pic in it, one with the 5X $20.00 green symbol on it, and one that had five $20.00 matches on it. On Dec. 6th I bought the second to last ticket(usually stayed away from these) and it had the green christmas tree "win all the prizes" symbol on it that added up to $400.00. I lost count of how many $20.00 winners I had. Also a few $40.00 winners mixed in.
One of the local places I stop had two rows of these tickets in the rack and one in the self serve machine. I bought two from one pack, two from the other pack ( one at a time) and one from the machine. The second ticket in both shelf tickets was a $100.00 winner and the one out of the machine was a $100.00 winner. There's three in one day. Heck 3 in 10 minutes. After the first week in Dec. they went DEAD. You could still hit the $10.00 amount and get your money back but that was about it.
I switched over to the new $20.00 "Million Dollar Mega Multiplier" and the new $10.00 "Diamonds and Sevens" tickets. Here is where it gets a little weird. I know they probably use some sort of RANDOM system for picking the numbers on the tickets. I don't mean winning numbers, I mean just the numbers they use. Well I have saved some of the losing tickets and somebody will have to tell me WHY, out of the 20 "Mega Multipliers" and the 12 "Diamonds and Sevens" losing tickets I have, the NUMBER 24 IS ON SIXTEEN TICKETS! Looks to me to be around 75% of these LOSERS had the number 24 somewhere in the field. It's like the kiss of death. LOL
It got to the point that if I saw a number 24 in the field I knew it was a loser. Just an observation. They rest of you people that play these tickets should keep score on the number of times you see that #24 in the field.
Good Luck All, AJ100