Hi Give Five!
I'm busy being a caretaker for a sick family member, that's why some things I used to enjoy, like posting and reading posts on this forum have gone by the wayside because I lack the amount of spare time I used to have, but I still thought about you and Thrifty and Kapla, etc. it was fun to try and figure out SM with you guys. A few weeks ago I tried a new strategy, I played all 40 Sweet Millions numbers, 7 tickets worth, hoping the six winning numbers would fall on the same line, but I ended up with only one ticket with three winning numbers.
I stayed at Foxwood's last week, and l saw that Lucky for Life advertisement at a convenience store, but I didn't pay any attention to it because I thought it was a scratch off game, and CT scratch offs have low prize money in comparison to the NY games. One game in CT advertised a prize of "up to (the amount was listed, but I forgot it), so that turned me off. It could have been the Lucky for Life game, I don't know, but whatever game it was I figured it was like a pari-mutuel payout, not a set amount like NY has, so I wasn't interested. Now I know from your post that Lucky for Life is a draw game. A woman who works at lottery headquarters upstate told me about the replacement game for Sweet Million.
No luck at Foxwood's this trip, a women on the slot machine next to me won $600 on a Quick Hits penny machine, she was so excited. Last trip I won approximately $500 on the dollar Double Diamond Wheel of Fortune machine at Mohegan Sun, got a nice return when a few of those double diamonds lined up for me, and then I spun the wheel for another $100. I don't like the new slot machines with multiple lines, some lines you can't see on the machine, so you can't tell if you hit something good until the money meter starts going up after the spin, it takes all the excitement out of playing for me.
Foxwoods continues to have financial troubles, starting last week they shut down a big part of the Rainmaker casino during the week (just my luck) and they will only open it on the weekends (that's when the hotel guests pay more money to stay there), so I couldn't play some of my favorite machines, but if they are doing that badly, Mohegan Sun is probably a better place for the slot player.