Here is the throwback photo from 2016. My last claimer was 2017, and the most I've hit since then has been $500 on a $25 or $30 ticket. I don't really play scratchoffs or lottery games much anymore. I might throw $20 - $50 a couple times a month. I still keep the people from this community in my thoughts, and hope to see you all win big claimers. I'm honestly very disgusted with a lot of the operational practices of the lottery that results in large numbers of unclaimed jackpot tickets. You all may recall the $25 Fastest Road to $1M ended with 7 unclaimed $1M top prizes? I went to AK Kwik in Gainesville recently, and the owner mentioned that there was a woman who bought over 70 books of that game with nothing notable. She was trying to chase one of those elusive final "unclaimed" (likely discarded, or in a lottery warehouse) top prizes.
My situation wasn't the "one or done" luck. I compulsively chased through a lot of books, and got a very lucky break. I remember calling the One Stop Chevron #3 in Lake City, and asking if they had any books in inventory. Someone from the store put the two books aside for me, and I came and bought them at the end of the week. I think one book had a normal $345/$600 return, and the other returned $101,245/$600 with the $100k winner and a $1K winner also on ticket #17 I believe. The final $3M prize went unclaimed on the $20 Super Millions game. EMTAdam hit $2M on the $10 Holiday Gifts, ticket #59 in 2016 I believe. Duckman hit $100k on one of the older $20 Gold Rush in 2014 or 2015 I believe.
Oldghost posted a photo of Adam's life changing win on page 215 of this thread. Many of us on here chased that game, so it was cool to see someone from here find the big one.
Duckman posted his 100k win on page 35 of this discussion thread below.
I'm hoping folks here find some nice claimers or an elusive jackpot, of course playing within their means. These games can be absolutely brutal. I purchased two of the $50 500X when it came out, luckily won $100 on one and lost $50 on the other and said...I'm done lol. I got two of the new 1M yr for life ticket, lost on both and then decided that was enough for me.