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HoLeeKau

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Aug 19, 2014, 11:17 am

Each ticket is $5. Too steep for me, for a top prize of $100K. I predict this draw game will flop. Would you play?

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The first draw for Idaho Bingo will be held on August 20, 2014

Idaho Bingo drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday night at 7:59 p.m. MT!

The overall odds of winning a prize in this game are 1:6

Note: Idaho Bingo jackpot is $100,000 and is pari–mutuel.

Each Idaho Bingo ticket can only win ONE prize per ticket. For example, if you get 2 lines you win $50. You do not win an additional $5 for the 1 line prize.
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Aug 19, 2014, 11:58 am
Even though the price is $5 this game is actually better than the $1 and $2 All or Nothing in many states.

It has a initial payout of about 61.5%, which is better than most draw games (including the upcoming MONOPOLY game). Obviously this is the best possible rate....being pari-mutuel it will be a bit lower, depending on sales.
- If the chances of winning the jackpot are so slim, why play when the jackpot is so small? Your chances never change, but the potential payoff does.
- If a crystal ball showed you the future of the rest of your life, and in that future you will never win a jackpot, would you still play?
- I believe Joan Ginther ("world's luckiest woman") merely played lottery as a tax strategy. Evidence: zero prize claims through 10 years after her last Lotto Texas annuity payment!
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Aug 19, 2014, 12:22 pm

Sure why not
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Aug 19, 2014, 1:08 pm

Would I play? No. I don't even like adding the Power Play to Power Ball. $5 is too much even if the odds are not insane like MM

That money's gone fo ever
ThatScaryChick

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Aug 19, 2014, 2:16 pm

I'm probably not going to be playing because I don't want to spend $5.00 on one ticket. They should have had the drawings on Thursday and Friday. We already have Weekly Grand, Hot Lotto, Wild Card and Powerball on those days.

ETA: Actually tomorrow they are having the first drawing so I think I will buy one ticket to try it out.

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Aug 19, 2014, 2:25 pm

Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on Aug 19, 2014
Each ticket is $5. Too steep for me, for a top prize of $100K. I predict this draw game will flop. Would you play?

Winning numbers coming soon.
The first draw for Idaho Bingo will be held on August 20, 2014

Idaho Bingo drawings are held every Wednesday and Saturday night at 7:59 p.m. MT!

The overall odds of winning a prize in this game are 1:6

Note: Idaho Bingo jackpot is $100,000 and is pari–mutuel.

Each Idaho Bingo ticket can only win ONE prize per ticket. For example, if you get 2 lines you win $50. You do not win an additional $5 for the 1 line prize.

Don't you have to live in Idaho to play? If so, that pretty much decides who will be playing it.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
ThatScaryChick

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Aug 19, 2014, 2:29 pm

Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Aug 19, 2014
Don't you have to live in Idaho to play? If so, that pretty much decides who will be playing it.

Well, we get people from other states who are driving through who buy tickets. I know people from Utah who will cross to the Idaho border to get tickets since they don't have the lottery.

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Aug 19, 2014, 3:02 pm

Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Aug 19, 2014
Don't you have to live in Idaho to play? If so, that pretty much decides who will be playing it.

You get out much
Stack47

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Aug 19, 2014, 3:28 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ThatScaryChick on Aug 19, 2014
I'm probably not going to be playing because I don't want to spend $5.00 on one ticket. They should have had the drawings on Thursday and Friday. We already have Weekly Grand, Hot Lotto, Wild Card and Powerball on those days.

ETA: Actually tomorrow they are having the first drawing so I think I will buy one ticket to try it out.

It takes 12 numbers for a diamond and 15 numbers must be drawn to get a 4 line match, but the state site only explains what days and at what time. Do you have any information on how many numbers will be drawn and are all the tickets QPs?
HoLeeKau

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Aug 19, 2014, 4:26 pm
I had to search, but here's a little more info. It appears the tickets are all QPs. It would take a lot of doing to make your own bingo grid each time.
1. Tickets are $5 each.
2. There are eight different prize levels from $5 up to the jackpot of $100,000.
3. 30 numbers from a pool of 75 are selected each draw.
4. Each ticket is produced with a Bingo grid that has randomly selected numbers in five columns: (B = 1-15, I = 16-30, N=31-45, G=46-60, O=61-75). There is a free space in the middle of every card on the ticket (No playslips, quick pick only).
5. One Bingo grid appears on each $5 ticket.
6. Players win by matching one of the winning patterns. These patterns are shown below on the prize chart.
7. All winning tickets must match a winning pattern completely.
8. Five week, ten draw advance multi-draw tickets are available.
9. Each Idaho Bingo ticket can only win one prize per ticket. For example, if you get 2 lines you win $50. You do not win an additional $5 for the 1 line prize.
HoLeeKau

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Aug 19, 2014, 4:29 pm

Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Aug 19, 2014
Don't you have to live in Idaho to play? If so, that pretty much decides who will be playing it.

Let me clarify. Would you play this game if it were available to you? IOW, is there something I'm failing to see that would make it worth playing?
HoLeeKau

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Aug 19, 2014, 4:33 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ThatScaryChick on Aug 19, 2014
I'm probably not going to be playing because I don't want to spend $5.00 on one ticket. They should have had the drawings on Thursday and Friday. We already have Weekly Grand, Hot Lotto, Wild Card and Powerball on those days.

ETA: Actually tomorrow they are having the first drawing so I think I will buy one ticket to try it out.

When they came out with Weekly Grand I told them I might play if the draw was Monday and Thursday when there are no other draws. They told me most of the players prefer drawings all on the same night for convenience, which doesn't make sense to me.

I've found them to be very unresponsive. Even when I've had ongoing problems with a certain vending machine they tend to just blow it off.
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Aug 19, 2014, 4:53 pm

I can get a $1 ticket in VA cash 5 for life for a chance at $100,000 (pick 5) and I think the overall pot size is $1-2 million.

DO NOT BE AFRAID.

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ThatScaryChick

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Aug 19, 2014, 5:07 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Stack47 on Aug 19, 2014
It takes 12 numbers for a diamond and 15 numbers must be drawn to get a 4 line match, but the state site only explains what days and at what time. Do you have any information on how many numbers will be drawn and are all the tickets QPs?

I just went and bought a ticket. A Bingo brochure I got says that 30 numbers will be drawn.

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ThatScaryChick

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Aug 19, 2014, 5:09 pm

Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on Aug 19, 2014
When they came out with Weekly Grand I told them I might play if the draw was Monday and Thursday when there are no other draws. They told me most of the players prefer drawings all on the same night for convenience, which doesn't make sense to me.

I've found them to be very unresponsive. Even when I've had ongoing problems with a certain vending machine they tend to just blow it off.

Yeah that makes no sense. I would love the games to be more spread out. I wonder if they actually did a survey or if they are just saying that.

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