I saw your other detailed analysis post Zeb, very interesting. So I have a question.
We have a guy here (EMTAdam) that managed to beat the odds and won 2 Jackpots ($2M and $250K). In FL, we have 2 major games near the end of their run, both $10 games (50X the Cash) and ($200 Million Spectacular).
The 200MS game has run for what seems like forever and was projected to last 10 years. There were a total of 20 Grand Prizes of $1 Million. The bulk of those were won in the first 5 years. There's supposedly 2 Grand Prizes left in this game. Gatorsrok was able to get the FL Lottery to give him the winning roll information on Jackpot winners 17 (around 493K) and 18 (519K). The odds are around 1 in 1,500,000 and approximately 30,000,000 tickets were printed so on average there would be a jackpot winner around every 25,000. The game is in very short supply and we suspect there may be as few as 50-60 Active/Received books for sale in the entire state with the vast bulk of these books residing in the North Central FL area (Gainesville, Daytona, etc). The game is virtually unavailable in all of Florida south of State Road 70 going all the way to the Keys, and beyond Panama City in the Panhandle. Of these remaining books, most appear to be in the range of where a jackpot would be found (we're assuming none of the previous winners won on a roll higher than 519K). Without knowing the roll information of the rest of the winners, I'm not sure the other jackpot is still there, but it's possible. Although this game is supposedly unorderable, there are shops such as AK in Gainesville that through reps they are able to get more books. So I'm a little concerned if we have all the books in the market that were going to get for this game. Now my question is this. We have someone that can now practically buy out the game and the geography they'd have to cover is not too bad to do it. Is it worth it? And do you think a jackpot is hiding in one of these remaining rolls?
In the 50X game, there are supposedly 3 Jackpot winners remaining. This one is a little more iffy. The FL Lottery facebook page had tickets posted of winners of the 20th (591K), 17th (516K), and 16th Jackpots (491K). There are a total of 24 Jackpots in this game and the rolls appear to go up to 625K, and based on the odds in this game, the two jackpots for the 18th and 19th winners would fit comfortably in between 516K and 591K. I don't have the information for the 21st winner, but if he won on a book above 591K I'm thinking the rest of rolls are junk. Like 200MS the supply of this game is dwindling, probably down to less than 100 books statewide. Again, the vast supply of these books are in North Central Florida and most are roll numbers in the 500K, 600K range or higher. Last week I went to a store in Gainesville that has 36 books of 50X the Cash! Most of their books also fall in this range, but oddly enough they just got an order on the 6/21 of a book with what has to be the lowest roll number remaining (19K) and also had one at (46K) and a few in the 300K range. We don't know as much on this game as we do on 200MS, but if someone can buy out this game, should they, or should they get the winning roll information first? That super-low roll numbers really tempted me, but I've held off.