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Quote: Originally posted by zzplayfaster on Jan 4, 2020
I was wondering about the Gainesville Walmart machine. Did anything come through good on the 000-015 range? A roll in the 470's would seem to be in the sweet spot.
I did fill up on Thursday and won $50 on a $20 Monopoly from Marathon/Pearl's on 441 in Micanopy. Got the stack of cash symbol and was hoping for something bigger, but I'll take it.
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 4, 2020
So I decided to play today.
I got:
2 $30 Gold Rush - Both on 29...Losers
2 $20 Gold Rush - Both on 29...Losers
2 $20 Monopoly - 029, and a 000.
2 random $5 tickets (Cash Deluxe #24, 114k book range, $5 Week for Life 408k book range)
2 random $2 tickets ($2 Week for Life, $2 GR)
These came from two different stores. I got two $20 Monopoly, book number (420,950), and (561,570). Ticket #29, last on the role was a loser. The ticket 000, from the (420,950) book was a $100 winner. I bought 2 $5 tickets, and 2 $2 tickets.
Overall, came out $100/$164. Yep, only one winning ticket. I would have went $0/$164 if I didn't find that $100 winner. Scary stuff. My luck is still not very good. I think I'm going to cash these in, and then hold off for a while. The 420,950 was from a large independent retailer here in Gainesville, who carries many books. When he was stocking the new book, I asked him to choose the lowest book number he had. I think there are still plenty of books in the 400 range. The Walmart vending machine near me has a $20 Monopoly book in the 470 range, and that book has been in there for 3 months. I've played it from 000, and it was on #15 last I checked. Who knows where those $5M prizes are. It has been about 9 months since one has been found, so I'd recommend focusing on the $20 Monopoly game. Overall, scratchoffs have been offering me very terrible return rates since 2018.
That's horrible...that's the reason I stopped buying scratch offs. Hopefully Florida lottery will start back issuing some real money. Use to win $500 frequently. 1,000....Been seeing people purchase 5 tickets straight without winning anything. That's insane...Can't afford to play numbers and scratch offs...a few numbers for now until Florida decides to repay their players. Good luck to all
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This is my first post and I don't even know if I'm doing it right. I just bought this. I'm terrified to scratch the rest. What are my chances of the prize amounts being good sized when you get the money bag and win all 20 prizes? I mean, even 20 prizes of all $2 would be awesome, but this momma needs them to be big more than you know. Any experience here getting the money bag symbol (win all 20 prizes) on the Gold Rush Classic $20?
I don't know how to show the photo. I only scratched winning numbers. Not my numbers or prize amounts.
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Quote: Originally posted by Lucky$Starseed on Jan 6, 2020
This is my first post and I don't even know if I'm doing it right. I just bought this. I'm terrified to scratch the rest. What are my chances of the prize amounts being good sized when you get the money bag and win all 20 prizes? I mean, even 20 prizes of all $2 would be awesome, but this momma needs them to be big more than you know. Any experience here getting the money bag symbol (win all 20 prizes) on the Gold Rush Classic $20?
I don't know how to show the photo. I only scratched winning numbers. Not my numbers or prize amounts.
Welcome Lucky!
If you got a money bag (win all) on the $20 Gold Rush, that means you won at least $100. The minimum is $5 under each symbol. If it is $25, then you will have won $500. Either way, congratulations and wishing you he best!
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Quote: Originally posted by Lucky$Starseed on Jan 6, 2020
This is my first post and I don't even know if I'm doing it right. I just bought this. I'm terrified to scratch the rest. What are my chances of the prize amounts being good sized when you get the money bag and win all 20 prizes? I mean, even 20 prizes of all $2 would be awesome, but this momma needs them to be big more than you know. Any experience here getting the money bag symbol (win all 20 prizes) on the Gold Rush Classic $20?
I don't know how to show the photo. I only scratched winning numbers. Not my numbers or prize amounts.
Hi Lucky$Starseed, welcome to this forum and congrats on getting what sounds like a $20 GRC Moneybag!! I got one in later 2018 and posted a pic (see page 606). On the $20 GRC it will be (like Dracos says above) at least $100 total, but can also be $500 or 1,000 total.
Roughly speaking about 80% of them will be $100, about 19% will be $500 (which is pretty good compared to many $20 games, mainly due to overall decent odds of $500 on this game), and about 1% will be $1,000.
Hope yours is one of the $1,000s, please do tell/show us once you find out!
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Jan 6, 2020
Hi Lucky$Starseed, welcome to this forum and congrats on getting what sounds like a $20 GRC Moneybag!! I got one in later 2018 and posted a pic (see page 606). On the $20 GRC it will be (like Dracos says above) at least $100 total, but can also be $500 or 1,000 total.
Roughly speaking about 80% of them will be $100, about 19% will be $500 (which is pretty good compared to many $20 games, mainly due to overall decent odds of $500 on this game), and about 1% will be $1,000.
Hope yours is one of the $1,000s, please do tell/show us once you find out!
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Jan 6, 2020
what's the result of your 100X book ??
Hey skeptic, unfortunately for me no early retirement, yet! lol. Total book return $-wise is about 50% (prelim results). I ended up rushing through the rest of them later Sunday and still want to double-check (can say for sure that in terms of symbols only got 2X and 5X). After a thorough check I'll post full results, but probably towards week's end.
Thanks for asking and I think I'd still play some of this game if I came across more
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 4, 2020
Glad the first 4 were winners. Wishing you the best on the rest of that book, I hope you find a claimer. I still can find the 100X game fairly easily here in Gainesville. I'm really curious to see if one, or both of those last two $1M pop up.
Dracos, thanks much for the well-wishes on the recent 100X book, but unfortunately nothing significant to report with it. It is interesting that you can find that game pretty easily where you are as it's getting really scarce here. In fact I was surprised when I came across it nearby last weekend. It's just a hunch but I believe that at least one of the last 2 $1M are out there somewhere
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 4, 2020
So I decided to play today.
I got:
2 $30 Gold Rush - Both on 29...Losers
2 $20 Gold Rush - Both on 29...Losers
2 $20 Monopoly - 029, and a 000.
2 random $5 tickets (Cash Deluxe #24, 114k book range, $5 Week for Life 408k book range)
2 random $2 tickets ($2 Week for Life, $2 GR)
These came from two different stores. I got two $20 Monopoly, book number (420,950), and (561,570). Ticket #29, last on the role was a loser. The ticket 000, from the (420,950) book was a $100 winner. I bought 2 $5 tickets, and 2 $2 tickets.
Overall, came out $100/$164. Yep, only one winning ticket. I would have went $0/$164 if I didn't find that $100 winner. Scary stuff. My luck is still not very good. I think I'm going to cash these in, and then hold off for a while. The 420,950 was from a large independent retailer here in Gainesville, who carries many books. When he was stocking the new book, I asked him to choose the lowest book number he had. I think there are still plenty of books in the 400 range. The Walmart vending machine near me has a $20 Monopoly book in the 470 range, and that book has been in there for 3 months. I've played it from 000, and it was on #15 last I checked. Who knows where those $5M prizes are. It has been about 9 months since one has been found, so I'd recommend focusing on the $20 Monopoly game. Overall, scratchoffs have been offering me very terrible return rates since 2018.
Hi Dracos, that is for sure a crummy winning % for 10 tickets, esp seeing that most were higher $ games, but $ speaking not an overall bad return (I know though for sure not good feeling being 1 ticket away from a goose egg on them all).
That's interesting the Walmart near you has a vending machine. The one closest to me doesn't have any (not vending or counter) but interesting that the lotto site says that they are a vendor...I'll have to try the Walmart liquor store right door as maybe that's where they are. Either way that one Mop'poly book is pretty slow moving if it's only halfway through in 3 months.
I was also considering trying a few $30 GRCs, as top prize and $100Ks looked good, but I see now that there's one less avail top prize...winners list says "processing" 01-03-2020...
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Jan 6, 2020
Hi Dracos, that is for sure a crummy winning % for 10 tickets, esp seeing that most were higher $ games, but $ speaking not an overall bad return (I know though for sure not good feeling being 1 ticket away from a goose egg on them all).
That's interesting the Walmart near you has a vending machine. The one closest to me doesn't have any (not vending or counter) but interesting that the lotto site says that they are a vendor...I'll have to try the Walmart liquor store right door as maybe that's where they are. Either way that one Mop'poly book is pretty slow moving if it's only halfway through in 3 months.
I was also considering trying a few $30 GRCs, as top prize and $100Ks looked good, but I see now that there's one less avail top prize...winners list says "processing" 01-03-2020...
Hi Cape,
So, the Walmart next to me has had the same book of $20 Monopoly for about 4-5 months now. It is now on ticket #20. I bought the ticket #000, and most of the tickets purchased from that book have been by me. The book number is #476,839. The other Walmart in Gainesville has a vending machine, and when I went to a Walmart Super Center in Orlando I've also noticed a vending machine. I think there's still a decent number of low number books out there, and I think a good place to hunt for them would be vending machines in general. I've seen the $20 luck game on book 20k, someone put a dud on top of the machine at the Walmart which makes me see very few people are purchasing the higher $ tickets at Walmart. This makes sense.
Someone won $15M on the $30 Gold Rush, and the win was in Miami. They made a news post about it today on the Lotto website. For that reason, I'd recommend the $20 Monopoly over it since 1-2 $5M prizes are due. I've noticed the yellow $20 LFL has had some $5K, and $10k prizes claimed...although slowly.
Today, I played with $60 initially and turned it into $47 playing the $2 Cash Payout, random $5 games, and random $10s. Ironically, the $2 Cash Payout more than delivered with 8/11 of the tickets being winners and I encountered multiple $10 wins. I think got a $100 winner on the Monopoly, which put me up a little bit for today. This doesn't happen often these days. In general, I'm noticing really bad books here in Gainesville.
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Jan 6, 2020
Hi Dracos, that is for sure a crummy winning % for 10 tickets, esp seeing that most were higher $ games, but $ speaking not an overall bad return (I know though for sure not good feeling being 1 ticket away from a goose egg on them all).
That's interesting the Walmart near you has a vending machine. The one closest to me doesn't have any (not vending or counter) but interesting that the lotto site says that they are a vendor...I'll have to try the Walmart liquor store right door as maybe that's where they are. Either way that one Mop'poly book is pretty slow moving if it's only halfway through in 3 months.
I was also considering trying a few $30 GRCs, as top prize and $100Ks looked good, but I see now that there's one less avail top prize...winners list says "processing" 01-03-2020...
If you want to play the 100X game, take a trip up to Gainesville. I can think of at least 10 retailers off the top of my head that have active books of the 100X game.
AK Kwik on NW 6th street has 4 active books, and 2 books in inventory alone. Their lowest book is on 787,350, and most of their books fall within the 1111,xxx range. Gainesville is a town that's notorious for having older tickets, and books right until the end of a game's life.
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Just an FYI to everyone, the $10 Holiday game has only had 1 top prize claimed. 2 remain
I wrote the FL Lottery, to inquire as to why the PDF said "processing on 12/13"
"Dear Dracos,
Thank you for writing the Florida Lottery. In response to your email, the Top Prizes Remaining chart is correct and Game 1438- $2,000,000 Holiday Luck has 2 top prizes remaining. This chart is automatically updated on daily basis. In researching your concern, we did encounter an error on our PDF and are working on updating this information to coincide with the Top Prize Remaining chart. This unfortunate incident was caused by human error.
To reiterate, at this time there has only been 1 top prize redeemed on the $2,000,000 Holiday Luck game.
On behalf of the Florida Lottery, thank you for playing Florida Lottery games and assisting your Lottery in generating profits for the enhancement of education in Florida. Proceeds from every dollar you spend benefits Florida’s students and schools. If you have additional questions, please contact the Customer Service office at (850) 487-7787, where a representative will gladly assist you from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday."
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Quote: Originally posted by Dracos on Jan 7, 2020
Just an FYI to everyone, the $10 Holiday game has only had 1 top prize claimed. 2 remain
I wrote the FL Lottery, to inquire as to why the PDF said "processing on 12/13"
"Dear Dracos,
Thank you for writing the Florida Lottery. In response to your email, the Top Prizes Remaining chart is correct and Game 1438- $2,000,000 Holiday Luck has 2 top prizes remaining. This chart is automatically updated on daily basis. In researching your concern, we did encounter an error on our PDF and are working on updating this information to coincide with the Top Prize Remaining chart. This unfortunate incident was caused by human error.
To reiterate, at this time there has only been 1 top prize redeemed on the $2,000,000 Holiday Luck game.
On behalf of the Florida Lottery, thank you for playing Florida Lottery games and assisting your Lottery in generating profits for the enhancement of education in Florida. Proceeds from every dollar you spend benefits Florida’s students and schools. If you have additional questions, please contact the Customer Service office at (850) 487-7787, where a representative will gladly assist you from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday."
Interesting...so there are 2 top prizes left.
On an unrelated note, bought one of the LFL today and won $20. Book number 0617642 at this store which is one of the few still selling them.
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Quote: Originally posted by duckman on Jan 7, 2020
Interesting...so there are 2 top prizes left.
On an unrelated note, bought one of the LFL today and won $20. Book number 0617642 at this store which is one of the few still selling them.
You can find the yellow LFL in plenty of places in Gainesville. That game isn't selling out anytime soon. So few retailers sell it, and so few players buy it. I see the book range is slowly creeping up, maybe it will end up in the 625k-630k range.
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Hi Dracos, wow sure sounds like no shortage of the 100X up your way!…and that's a pretty sizable book spread on a game nearly sold out. It's tough with those 2 remaining $1M prizes to try and determine what book numbers they may be around, and sure would be nice if the Lotto included book # in the top prize claimed list PDF.
Oh, thanks too for bringing to light the latest $30 GRC claim, sure makes the $20 Mop'poly the most current favorable odds-on game.
Also, I'm for sure going to check out the Walmart liquor store this weekend since that's gotta be where they have games, as the Lotto site lists the location as a vendor (but none to be found in regular store). If they have some I'll see how old the books are.