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@ Dracos - Thanks for posting all the current info on the games....really helpful and hopefully it will benefit someone out there really soon....hope it me for once...lol....I have had a rough couple weeks on the games - quit on florida cash due to too many bad books in a row and losing $500 plus a book just gets expensive and aggravating. I also went thru over a dozen 2MJ books the past couple weeks with no luck hitting anything over $100.....not really bad luck when you look at the odds on that game 15 books at 60 tickets each is only 900 tickets which falls well under the odds for hitting a decent prize (500 and up) so for everyone out there reading this....its TOUGH to hit $500 or more on a game...really tough on $10 games. Do you have any recent ILR on 2MJ?? I have one from a couple weeks ago and it had 9 - $10k, 13 - $5k and 198 - $1k tickets not claimed plus the big one. If you have better numbers than those could you please post them for i am gonna take one last good shot at this game over the next couple weeks and hopefully will break a bad run and expensive one the past few months. I sure would like to post some winners on this site but am waiting till i hit some $1000 and up tickets and since that isn't happening I will hope for a few $500's at this point :)
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Quote: Originally posted by jackpotchasing on Jan 19, 2017
@ Dracos - Thanks for posting all the current info on the games....really helpful and hopefully it will benefit someone out there really soon....hope it me for once...lol....I have had a rough couple weeks on the games - quit on florida cash due to too many bad books in a row and losing $500 plus a book just gets expensive and aggravating. I also went thru over a dozen 2MJ books the past couple weeks with no luck hitting anything over $100.....not really bad luck when you look at the odds on that game 15 books at 60 tickets each is only 900 tickets which falls well under the odds for hitting a decent prize (500 and up) so for everyone out there reading this....its TOUGH to hit $500 or more on a game...really tough on $10 games. Do you have any recent ILR on 2MJ?? I have one from a couple weeks ago and it had 9 - $10k, 13 - $5k and 198 - $1k tickets not claimed plus the big one. If you have better numbers than those could you please post them for i am gonna take one last good shot at this game over the next couple weeks and hopefully will break a bad run and expensive one the past few months. I sure would like to post some winners on this site but am waiting till i hit some $1000 and up tickets and since that isn't happening I will hope for a few $500's at this point :)
Here's a PDF form of each of those games split up for easier access on statewide book locations:
I support your decision to stop chasing Florida Cash. 1.4k books is just too many for the realistic chance of hitting what may be only one $1M prize remaining. Unless a person is lucky enough to hit a couple of $5k, and a $20k prize, it just wouldn't be sustainable. Why not play 2MJ with less than 140 books remaining across the state, or Super Millions with 230+ books remaining instead? The chances of hitting $2M or $3M are better, and less likely that you'll lose as much. I'm still curious as to why the $20 Super Millions game isn't ending even though the book supply for it is very scarce. At any rate, 2MJ has a time limit of less than 2 months, and it pays out more on average than SM so it is the better game to buy at the moment.
You are right, the game odds of hitting $500 isn't easy on 2MJ, or SM. I've gone through serious cold streaks, but then hot streaks exist as well. Remember, on one night I bought four books of Super Millions. One book returned $101k, one book returned $945, and then the other two were average...I think $345, and $445. Most of the books I encountered before that were $245-$445/$600 return, maximum. All it takes is that one book, and one ticket...really.
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 19, 2017
Book updates (across the state)
$20 Super Millions
Activated: 53
In Transit: 3
Received: 174
Total number: 230
$10 2,000,000 Jackpot
Activated: 38
In Transit: 0 <---- Confirmed no more in the "warehouse".
Received: 101
Total number: 139 <----Definitely shows the effort many of us put into chasing this game
$25 Florida Cash
Activated: 639
In Transit: 1
Received: 828
Total Number: 1,468
Niki Food Store is down to 4 books of SM, and 4 books of 2MJ. The Sunoco on Dean Rd still has 13 books of SM, 11 books of FL Cash, and 3 books of 2MJ. I'm probably going to call them up to get some info on the book numbers they have. AK Kwik has 13 books of SM, 28 books of FL Cash, and 4 books of 2MJ remaining. Jacksonville district office has 14 books of SM, West Palm Beach has 4 books of 2MJ. Aside from that, there aren't any other places with large quantities of these games. There is a Winn Dixie in Belle Glade listed as having 2 books of Super Millions, anyone live over in the Belle Glade/Pahokee area? I'd be curious to see what book numbers they have there.
There's way too many FL Cash books remaining for me to recommend playing it with likely only 1 $1M prize remaining, plus there's going to be a new $25 ticket coming out next month. There's definitely going to be alot of $1k prizes remaining, probably some $5k, and $20k prizes out there on that game. I don't know if both $1M prizes are still out there, with that decent size out there I'd assume at least 1 should be. With 2MJ having 139 books remaining across the state, the remaining stock on that game might just dwindle before it expires. SM still has a healthy stock, likely replenished by some warehouse books.
If anyone wants the exact locations, here they are below: (It will expire in 30 days)
https://ufile.io/f491e
There's going to be a new $25 ticket coming out next month?? Any details? :)!
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@ Dracos - you are 100% right.....I am going to concentrate on 2MJ for the next couple weeks and see what happens.....I had such brutal bad run on book after book of SM that i finally cried "Uncle"....lol....rough game at times....so for now i will continue buying up books of 2MJ and hopefully i will end a bad run and post a nice hit real soon. Thanks for all the info and efforts, you are such a great asset to this forum and I only wish i had found this cool forum a long time ago....Best of luck to everyone out there as well!
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Well I've been picking up an old and new gold rush ticket every other day or so and I got this one today. Still have mixed feelings on the game, but it has been relatively good to me so far.
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 19, 2017
Also, Bien Dong Oriental Market (3510 Mobile Highway , Pensacola (850) 433-0222) has activated their book of Super Millions. Piggly Wiggly #282 (5355 Cotton Street, Graceville) has activated their book of 2MJ! Will the final prize be found at these stores with...interesting names?
I'd love to see a Press Release published saying the winning tickets were found in these places. Can any of our friends from Pensacola or near Graceville scout on these book numbers?
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It looks like 2MJ is entering territory where some of our larger winners might start thinking about buying it out. If there's 139 books remaining, the total cost would be $83,400 and if each of those books paid out a minimum value of $245 then minimum winnings would be $34,055, and the "worst" one would lose would be close to $50,000. This would be slightly less b/c chances are the 38 active rolls are probably played out in some part.
Now about these 101 rolls. I wonder if the FL Lotto also pulled some books out of the retailers for destruction. For example, I now a roll that was never activated was picked up at the BP on SR 40 & US 41 in Dunnellon b/c the clerk told me after I bought the last of his active roll. Did that roll go to another location? Hard to tell. If the lottery is pulling them out, may not be a fair search.
But here's what you big players could do. Organize the list of "received" books by retailers and try to go through a central point to light a fire in these vendors and get them to sell these books.
Of the 101 "Received" Books
9 are supposedly sitting at Publix's. If interested, maybe you can get ahold of someone in charge of their state lottery program in Lakeland, make it clear you want to buy all 9 books and ensure these aren't picked up by the Lotto for destruction.
8 are currently sitting at affiliated "Kwik-Stop" locations: AK's, Kelly's, Orlando, and Bradenton. Normally these guys are good at keeping the games out.
7 are currently sitting at affiliated Circle K/Kangaroo locations (probably have to go through each one since they are independently owned)
7 are currently at Sunoco's
6 are at Winn-Dixie's (maybe try the same as Publix)
4 are at Chevrons
3 are at the WPB District office
and the rest are scattered around at various independent food & liquor stores. Apparently 1 is at Tampa Bay Downs gambling place.
That's about half of them. The active books should be pretty easy to clean up at this point. Just have to make sure the Received books dont gather dust out of vendor ignorance who won't sell them or lets the lotto pick them up.
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Quote: Originally posted by zzplayfaster on Jan 19, 2017
It looks like 2MJ is entering territory where some of our larger winners might start thinking about buying it out. If there's 139 books remaining, the total cost would be $83,400 and if each of those books paid out a minimum value of $245 then minimum winnings would be $34,055, and the "worst" one would lose would be close to $50,000. This would be slightly less b/c chances are the 38 active rolls are probably played out in some part.
Now about these 101 rolls. I wonder if the FL Lotto also pulled some books out of the retailers for destruction. For example, I now a roll that was never activated was picked up at the BP on SR 40 & US 41 in Dunnellon b/c the clerk told me after I bought the last of his active roll. Did that roll go to another location? Hard to tell. If the lottery is pulling them out, may not be a fair search.
But here's what you big players could do. Organize the list of "received" books by retailers and try to go through a central point to light a fire in these vendors and get them to sell these books.
Of the 101 "Received" Books
9 are supposedly sitting at Publix's. If interested, maybe you can get ahold of someone in charge of their state lottery program in Lakeland, make it clear you want to buy all 9 books and ensure these aren't picked up by the Lotto for destruction.
8 are currently sitting at affiliated "Kwik-Stop" locations: AK's, Kelly's, Orlando, and Bradenton. Normally these guys are good at keeping the games out.
7 are currently sitting at affiliated Circle K/Kangaroo locations (probably have to go through each one since they are independently owned)
7 are currently at Sunoco's
6 are at Winn-Dixie's (maybe try the same as Publix)
4 are at Chevrons
3 are at the WPB District office
and the rest are scattered around at various independent food & liquor stores. Apparently 1 is at Tampa Bay Downs gambling place.
That's about half of them. The active books should be pretty easy to clean up at this point. Just have to make sure the Received books dont gather dust out of vendor ignorance who won't sell them or lets the lotto pick them up.
@ Pikachu - No details on the $25 ticket. A lotto rep mentioned it to me, and I assume they'll roll out some publicity for it soon within the next two weeks at retailers. I just hope it has a new, and better prize structure than the current $25 tickets. I would love it if they brought back 100X in a new coat. The 100X game had some pretty good odds, in my opinion.
@ Gators - Nice $500 win!
@ Jax- Lmao, I felt the same way when I saw the name of those places. Then again, I bought lottery tickets at a Chinese restaurant when I was in South FL. Nothing surprises me anymore...
@Jackpotchasing - Np, I wish you the best of luck and I hope you find the final prize! You are seriously overdue, and deserve it.
@ Jasefan - Yep, evidently!
@ Zzplay - Agreed, also there should be at LEAST 2 $1k winners remaining based on the game's odds. Likely many more than just that. Whether or not there's $5k, and $10k winners still out there is questionable, along with the final jackpot. If there are, then this could be a worthy hunt. I might buy one book tomorrow evening.
Also, keep in mind not ALL of the books of 2MJ remaining are in the relevant range for where the final prize should be. I can tell you the books at Kelly's Kwik Stop are all out of range, there's two books in the 20k book range, and one book in the very low 200k book range. When I stopped by AK Kwik, I think they also had 2 books out of range. The number of relevant 2MJ books remaining can very easily be under 100 at this point. Also, the 1 book listed at Anthony Food Store is out of range as well (150k book range). Right there, we can eliminate 5 books from the chase.
Edit:
I just called the Sunoco on Dean Rd in Orlando.
They have the following Super Millions books in stock: SM: 576, 666, 671, 701, 708, 710, 711, 719, 720, 725, 726, 729. Of all these books, the first three are clearly out of range. All the other ones are in the potential range, I'd especially consider the last three.
I asked about the 2MJ books they had in stock. The report lists them as having 3 books in stock, and they must have been delivered recently since they didn't have them in inventory before. The guy said he can check for them when I arrive, but didn't know where to find them. If someone lives in the Orlando area and wants to investigate, any information we have on relevant 2MJ books and books that are out of range can really aid others on the hunt.
AK Kwik had the following when I last checked:
2M: 203, 205, 259, 260, 270
The first two aren't in range, but the last three are.
SM:
7372 (Yep, SUPER old book), 666, 668, 673, 682, 702, 705, 714, 714, 718.
The first three, possibly the first four (fourth is borderline) aren't in the range for the final prize. I have to admit, the 7372 would be a fun book to scratch, my experience has been low number books usually have good returns.
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I would consider doing it, but its almost an impossible task. Ill explain why...
It would likely take WEEKS to drive all around the state to track these books down. On top of getting to the store, you better hope they actually have it and a manager that can get to the book and activate it is working. Any book that is listed as ACTIVE will be selling while you are searching, so the entire process will be changing hourly...daily... so you may be chasing ghost tickets.
Now what WOULD be nice, is if I could walk into the district office, tell them I want all 101 books, pay for them and have them collect them all then hand em over. Anything that has been sold, they refund me for. But this will never happen.
I just dont see how logistically, a person could do this. Florida is a HUGE state.
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Well I have been chasing the $20 Flamingo jackpot..been breaking even no big wins to mention, however stopped for gas on the way to pickup my daughter at daycare and decided to do a one and done on the $20 Monopoly and hit a $1,000 on it so will be hitting the district office today. I haven't seen any 2MJ tickets in Jax of course I can't venture to far around Jax to look due to work.
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Quote: Originally posted by EMTAdam on Jan 20, 2017
I would consider doing it, but its almost an impossible task. Ill explain why...
It would likely take WEEKS to drive all around the state to track these books down. On top of getting to the store, you better hope they actually have it and a manager that can get to the book and activate it is working. Any book that is listed as ACTIVE will be selling while you are searching, so the entire process will be changing hourly...daily... so you may be chasing ghost tickets.
Now what WOULD be nice, is if I could walk into the district office, tell them I want all 101 books, pay for them and have them collect them all then hand em over. Anything that has been sold, they refund me for. But this will never happen.
I just dont see how logistically, a person could do this. Florida is a HUGE state.
I agree it would be tough with the driving, definitely not impossible. The number of books active is quite a bit smaller than the number listed as received. Also, we have to keep in mind that some of these books might not exist due to an error in recordkeeping, or you might have challenge of persuading a stubborn store clerk who may have it in stock but believes in the fallacy that it is only possible for their store to have the newest games in stock. I've had this happen on several occasions only to have the clerk search, and see that the inventory report was correct, and that they did indeed have books in stock (in a couple cases, underneath boxes and forgotten about). You make a good point that the biggest pain in the ass is getting a manager to access it. I know Kangaroo, Racetrac, and Circle K gas stations can be some of the tougher spots to get books for that reason.
139 isn't a large number of books at all, especially if we factor that we have people buying this game in all parts of the state currently. There's also spectators on this forum who never post, and are possibly buying these tickets as well. I'm planning on buying a book today, and possibly another one next time next week so that will further decrease the number available. With the small number available, the final prize on 2MJ can be hit at anytime
It would take a few weeks, but it can be done over weekend road trips. A person can focus on specific counties/areas. For example, Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are all relatively close by (within 2 hour driving distance). The outlier places would be Belle Glade/Pahokee...those spots are in the absolute boonies. I'd imagine that's what alot of the panhandle would be like. The adventure side could be fun finding a good music playlist, and seeing different parts of the state. If there's still a decent number of books left after I get back from travelling for work, I'll personally take on this hunt.
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2MJ is drying up really fast. The Sunoco on Dean Rd apparently only has one book left, 225k book range. Two books were bought there yesterday. AK Kwik's 3 books listed all don't exist, apparently someone cleaned those out in total. So 139 - 5 = 134 books out there. The likely number of books in the relevant range that may exist is easily under 100 now. I know of 10 stores off the top of my head which have 2MJ, but the ranges are not what we're targeting.
AK Kwik has the following SM:
666k, 722k, 722k, 668k, 673k, 682k, 702k, 705k, 714k, 714k, 718k, and the 7k book (7372). I bought a SM book from AK Kwik 729k range. It paid back $445/$600.
AK Kwik also has 28 books of FL Cash. They have a bunch in the 1.27, and 1.28 range where I'd expect a final $1M prize to show up. Imo, not worth the beating. I bought 4, and got back $50 back. I was hoping my old luck on that game would come back, and I'd hit a $400-$500 winner again.
In other news, I see the $1 Week For Life's final prize was hit just west of Jacksonville. That's another game to cross off the list now. I'm expecting the $10 $5000 a Week For Life ticket to have its final prize hit any week now.
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 20, 2017
2MJ is drying up really fast. The Sunoco on Dean Rd apparently only has one book left, 225k book range. Two books were bought there yesterday. AK Kwik's 3 books listed all don't exist, apparently someone cleaned those out in total. So 139 - 5 = 134 books out there. The likely number of books in the relevant range that may exist is easily under 100 now. I know of 10 stores off the top of my head which have 2MJ, but the ranges are not what we're targeting.
AK Kwik has the following SM:
666k, 722k, 722k, 668k, 673k, 682k, 702k, 705k, 714k, 714k, 718k, and the 7k book (7372). I bought a SM book from AK Kwik 729k range. It paid back $445/$600.
AK Kwik also has 28 books of FL Cash. They have a bunch in the 1.27, and 1.28 range where I'd expect a final $1M prize to show up. Imo, not worth the beating. I bought 4, and got back $50 back. I was hoping my old luck on that game would come back, and I'd hit a $400-$500 winner again.
In other news, I see the $1 Week For Life's final prize was hit just west of Jacksonville. That's another game to cross off the list now. I'm expecting the $10 $5000 a Week For Life ticket to have its final prize hit any week now.
Anybody going to buy the last 2MJ tickets in Marion County at the Lucky's? He was on 50 or so when I went a few weeks ago so not many tickets left. But it is roll 245K.
Oh wait, Anthony Food Mart's still left but that roll's out of range.