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The game is called "Weekly Grand". It's a $2 ticket. The odds are 1 in 3.95 this is listed on the back. I bought $20 worth a couple days back and I got $15 back. So it was only a $5 investment. I was going to wait until tomorrow and buy another $20. The reason I like this card so much is the top prize. $1,000 a week for 20 years. That's the top prize and only one has been claimed. So there are still 4 top prizes left. I saw on here where scratch cards were listed for each state and weekly grand is ranked 49. So is this worth continuing to play? It seems like it pays back pretty well. It only cost me $5 to play 10 cards.
Also, I'm in Tx, I have a link to the card but the rules state not to post a link until you've been a member for a while.
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Quote: Originally posted by Turbolag on Dec 28, 2016
The game is called "Weekly Grand". It's a $2 ticket. The odds are 1 in 3.95 this is listed on the back. I bought $20 worth a couple days back and I got $15 back. So it was only a $5 investment. I was going to wait until tomorrow and buy another $20. The reason I like this card so much is the top prize. $1,000 a week for 20 years. That's the top prize and only one has been claimed. So there are still 4 top prizes left. I saw on here where scratch cards were listed for each state and weekly grand is ranked 49. So is this worth continuing to play? It seems like it pays back pretty well. It only cost me $5 to play 10 cards.
Also, I'm in Tx, I have a link to the card but the rules state not to post a link until you've been a member for a while.
I play this ticket once in a while. I play because of the top prize. And yes, the OVERALL odds of this ticket are 1 in 3.95. BUT....the odds for the top prize are 1 in 7,488,000. So, finding one of the top prize tix is worse than the proverbial needle in a haystack.
I play maybe 1 scratcher a week...my main focus is the draw games. My problem with scratchers is that you really don't know if they even released all the tickets with the top prizes yet, or if they are still in a warehouse somewhere. Plus, it's annoying to see the lottery commission close a game that still has several top prizes unclaimed. That's just wrong.
Anyway, good luck.
BTW, a good draw game that compares to a scratcher in overall odds is All or Nothing, or Triple Chance. Both $2 games.
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Quote: Originally posted by Turbolag on Dec 28, 2016
The game is called "Weekly Grand". It's a $2 ticket. The odds are 1 in 3.95 this is listed on the back. I bought $20 worth a couple days back and I got $15 back. So it was only a $5 investment. I was going to wait until tomorrow and buy another $20. The reason I like this card so much is the top prize. $1,000 a week for 20 years. That's the top prize and only one has been claimed. So there are still 4 top prizes left. I saw on here where scratch cards were listed for each state and weekly grand is ranked 49. So is this worth continuing to play? It seems like it pays back pretty well. It only cost me $5 to play 10 cards.
Also, I'm in Tx, I have a link to the card but the rules state not to post a link until you've been a member for a while.
As of this week - Weekly Grand isnt' one we'd recommend for TX - it has a smart factor rating of .990 There are 5 other $2.00 games in TX that have much better odds of winning a top prize. At .990, it means that the odd of winning a top prize are still out there, but the top prize odds are slightly worse than when the game was originally printed - meaning more top prizes have been awarded than the same proportion of all tickets sold.
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Quote: Originally posted by Turbolag on Dec 28, 2016
The game is called "Weekly Grand". It's a $2 ticket. The odds are 1 in 3.95 this is listed on the back. I bought $20 worth a couple days back and I got $15 back. So it was only a $5 investment. I was going to wait until tomorrow and buy another $20. The reason I like this card so much is the top prize. $1,000 a week for 20 years. That's the top prize and only one has been claimed. So there are still 4 top prizes left. I saw on here where scratch cards were listed for each state and weekly grand is ranked 49. So is this worth continuing to play? It seems like it pays back pretty well. It only cost me $5 to play 10 cards.
Also, I'm in Tx, I have a link to the card but the rules state not to post a link until you've been a member for a while.
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Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Dec 28, 2016
I play this ticket once in a while. I play because of the top prize. And yes, the OVERALL odds of this ticket are 1 in 3.95. BUT....the odds for the top prize are 1 in 7,488,000. So, finding one of the top prize tix is worse than the proverbial needle in a haystack.
I play maybe 1 scratcher a week...my main focus is the draw games. My problem with scratchers is that you really don't know if they even released all the tickets with the top prizes yet, or if they are still in a warehouse somewhere. Plus, it's annoying to see the lottery commission close a game that still has several top prizes unclaimed. That's just wrong.
Anyway, good luck.
BTW, a good draw game that compares to a scratcher in overall odds is All or Nothing, or Triple Chance. Both $2 games.
Thanks for the advice. How do you calculate the top prize odds? Where can I read more on draw games? Thanks a lot.
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Quote: Originally posted by ScratchSmarter on Dec 28, 2016
As of this week - Weekly Grand isnt' one we'd recommend for TX - it has a smart factor rating of .990 There are 5 other $2.00 games in TX that have much better odds of winning a top prize. At .990, it means that the odd of winning a top prize are still out there, but the top prize odds are slightly worse than when the game was originally printed - meaning more top prizes have been awarded than the same proportion of all tickets sold.
Thank you for the reply. What scratch games do you recommend for Tx? How do you calculate the smart rating?
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Quote: Originally posted by Turbolag on Dec 29, 2016
Thanks for the advice. How do you calculate the top prize odds? Where can I read more on draw games? Thanks a lot.
Just go to Tx lottery website and click on scratchoffs. You can pick the dollar value of the tickets and then just click on each particular ticket. It tells you the odds, how many top prizes have been claimed and where they were purchased.
