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Quote: Originally posted by BicD on Mar 11, 2023
Is this the ticket?
Yes! I went to a different store yesterday and there was the new ticket in the "window" for this game. I asked for 4 and he handed me the holiday edition ones! I was fine with that but I guess he has to use all these up first. I now get that it's the same game just different images/designs.
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Mar 5, 2023
Hey Skeptic, that's amazing about the one spot not scratched being such a great win, but yep that's exactly how winners can be missed and tossed. The old $10 Spectacular pre-dated the self-checking kiosks and app, let alone the single action bar code validation, but I still see plenty of scratched tickets at retailers with the bar code not done, so winners are still no doubt being tossed.
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Quote: Originally posted by speeddmon on Mar 8, 2023
It seems they shot the gun with that one.Coming out next month
Yep it sure looked that way, with the $2 Money Multiplier having come out instead. The marketing is sloppy, as the initial pic of the new $50 Spectacular displayed a different top prize count that what the game eventually had.
In the pic about the $10 game looks interesting in that more double ticket cost min win games seem more prevalent lately, as the pic of the ticket shows min win is $20.
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Quote: Originally posted by th19940305 on Mar 9, 2023
Thought I had a nice win when I scratched the doubler and it matched but sadly only a $100 breakeven for the 2 I bought
Nice doubler to score a hundro. Most number match only wins with the doubler win will be $100...doubler match and any multiplier symbol will be $500 or greater.
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Mar 14, 2023
Yep it sure looked that way, with the $2 Money Multiplier having come out instead. The marketing is sloppy, as the initial pic of the new $50 Spectacular displayed a different top prize count that what the game eventually had.
In the pic about the $10 game looks interesting in that more double ticket cost min win games seem more prevalent lately, as the pic of the ticket shows min win is $20.
Had a bit of "Luck of the Irish" on St. Patricks Day thanks to some Irish meat.
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Quote: Originally posted by speeddmon on Mar 18, 2023
Had a bit of "Luck of the Irish" on St. Patricks Day thanks to some Irish meat.
Hey Speeddmon great number match and pic for $500 on the $10 Madness!! Hopefully you've got some St Patrick's Day leftovers to perhaps turn some additional great wins from, lol.
I seem to find the most $500s on this game from ticket 000 to 020. Did you notice the last three posted here were indeed so?
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Quote: Originally posted by skeptic on Mar 9, 2023
Hi TH19940305 ........ good for you getting $100 on the new ticket. I see someone just got 1M .......... they might putting out some winners - finally !
The game has MANY duds to play out .... with a 1.6B bank of tickets to the game, that's a bunch.
I see GRL has a few $1M winners. I played the heck out of it when it came out .... don't think I hit anything over $50 ... GRL is a weird game .... lotsa big wins ....... according to several ILR's over the past months sales have been slow.
several years ago many of the $20, 25 and $30 games had ticket banks around 300K - win ratios were pretty good .... look at it now ... $50 tickets with ticket banks of $1.6B.......sure they'll have a couple hundred $1m prizes and maybe 2 around $25M .... but the number of duds is astronomical ............I'd like to see FlLot come out with a new $20 and $25 game with realistic ticket banks ...not the 1.6B we're seeing now.
Or another $10 Madness ticket ........
Why do we have two $50 tickets ?
Will they be coming out with a $100 ticket soon ??
Hey Skeptic, lots of ground covered but as usual I have some comments/thoughts, and not necessarily in the order in which yours were laid out.
On the question of why there’s another $50 ticket I think the short answer is because the initial one has proven very strong since it came out just over a year ago. The 500X game order consisted of slightly more than 42.8M tickets (about 1.428M books) and it’s 80%+ sold (and there’s still a $25M top prize unclaimed) so there’s been very brisk sales. It’s no wonder the FL Lotto is following a very close format with the new $50 Spectacular, with a game order of nearly 43.5M tickets (1.449M books), and similar prize structure. Both $50 tickets have a total prize value of about $1.6B. If sales of the $50 games continue to be strong I would not be surprised to see a $100 ticket.
I too like the $10 Madness, and at about 75% sold it still has considerable run time, and it’s readily found, being still located in the grocery store planograms (though I do see it was bumped from the grocery store machines).
I’m totally with you regarding the $20 GRL. Sure it’s not bad odds for a top prize but absolutely terrible for any sort of mid-range win levels for anything north of $100. if I had $100 to burn I’ll take two $50 tickets any day over 5 $20 GRL, as corrected for price both $50 games beat the GRL for 1M odds. Either way I think it’s sad FL Lotto only offers three $20 games at this moment; the Crossword (not many folk’s cup of tea), the GRL (Oooh, money back again, rinse and repeat), the the Mop’oly (probably the one of the three I play the most of).
All in all I’d like to see FL just simply have more games at. $20 and up. I’m going to compare vs other large state lotteries, but am pretty sure 7 total games at $20 and up is skimpy compared to other states (not to mention the $30 Gold Rush Supreme is on its last legs). The FL has fallen into the trap of having to offer ever-larger grand prizes on its games, thus necessitating large orders to maintain acceptable odds at other prize levels. Like do we really need 2 $25M wins on each of the $50 games? I’d wonder how 2 $5M wins would look and much better mid-range win odds.
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I was looking at the cash option for the 1m on both $50 games and why the 500X the cash option is $820000 and the 1m a year is $640000, we are talking almost $200k difference for the same top prize.
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Quote: Originally posted by AlexYuya on Mar 20, 2023
I was looking at the cash option for the 1m on both $50 games and why the 500X the cash option is $820000 and the 1m a year is $640000, we are talking almost $200k difference for the same top prize.
Can someone know why?
500X the Cash is a straight cash payout minus taxes. 1 Million a Year for Life is an annuity, which would be paid out as 1 million a year for twenty-five years. If you take the cash option, you receive the amount that they would have to invest over 25 years to pay that amount (which is less than the full 25 million.)
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Mar 19, 2023
Hey Speeddmon great number match and pic for $500 on the $10 Madness!! Hopefully you've got some St Patrick's Day leftovers to perhaps turn some additional great wins from, lol.
I seem to find the most $500s on this game from ticket 000 to 020. Did you notice the last three posted here were indeed so?
Either way congrats and keep up the great wins!
LOL I wish. Nothing but losers ever since. IDK about the wins on the ticket, I can pull any number and come out a loser lol. Hoping and wishing and hoping and praying doesn't seem to work lol.