Email: Opengov@flalottery.com and ask for an instant liability report as well as the percentage the game is sold through.
If you're interested in getting book inventory lists, you can email lottery district offices (email addresses listed on the FL Lottery website). They typically provide only lists within their districts, but senior managers will happily provide statewide lists.
I received an update on 2MJ/SM for statewide lists. The only interesting things I noticed:
- Jacksonville district office is receiving 10 additional books of Super Millions.
- Gainesville district office was listed as having 6 books, but now appears to have 0.
- AK Kwik Stop in Gainesville has 4 books of 2MJ which are in the jackpot range. I think they received it in a delivery batch and didn't realize they had it since I went there one time asking if they had it seeing them listed as having 4 and they said they were out of it. I'm personally done playing 2MJ, so I won't be touching these.
@ Adam - Thanks for sharing your results. It sucks that you didn't hit anything huge, but you took the chance at winning $3M with less than a $1k loss. I'd say that was worth it. You also opened the eyes of our community, and showed us that Instant Liability Reports can be vary deceptive when trying to interpret remaining prizes. While it is obvious that some of those prizes listed were unclaimed through retailers closing, lotto reps grabbing books, vending machine tickets being removed, and players missing winning tickets, it still shows the lack of reliability of this data.
My personal recommendation to everyone is to reconsider chasing games that are 97-99% sold through with 1 or more top prizes remaining, simply because the likelihood those prizes being found is slim to none. If Florida Lottery improves their ticket handling practices and updates the Instant Liability Reports to account for tickets that are destroyed in the future, then my recommendation would naturally change from this stance.
I still would recommend the $20 Flamingo since it is 95% sold through, and like Jackpotchasing has pointed out, big prizes are being claimed on a weekly basis on that game. $1k, $5k, $20k, and even the last $100k prize was found. There's only about 1.3m-1.4m of these tickets left with two $1M, and one $5M prizes remaining. The best odds out there considering these prizes are very likely to exist due to these tickets being distributed in chronological order with all of the previous $1M and $5M prizes being claimed in relatively chronological order with no real gaps except for the lower 700k-740k range which I suspect may have one of those final $1M prizes.