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Right now here in Washington State, there is a $30 game set to go off. In fact, it's over mostly. It is called Jackpot Fortune, game 1593. The issue is that there is one remaining top prize of $1 million dollars that hasn't been paid yet. So people, a few people I know are buying out the few tickets they can find as they are now virtually impossible to find except at low volume mom and pop type corner stores. My problem with this is that it's a horrifying pay table so you get crushed playing it assuming you don't hit a top prize. But beyond that, my argument is that just because it hasn't technically been paid, that doesn't mean it's still out there to buy. In fact, I would estimate 99% likelihood someone is sitting in it or it's a winner that will never be claimed. Washington State alone currently has several big ticket winners set to expire unclaimed.
I am shocked at how many people have seen use this strategy right down to putting $20 or $30 in a machine, then pulling up the lottery page on their phone to see which game has the most unclaimed top prizes. To each his own, but I just see this as a very flawed strategy. Just wondering does anyone here do this ? And has it been successful ?
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Quote: Originally posted by spencerjames on Mar 11, 2022
Right now here in Washington State, there is a $30 game set to go off. In fact, it's over mostly. It is called Jackpot Fortune, game 1593. The issue is that there is one remaining top prize of $1 million dollars that hasn't been paid yet. So people, a few people I know are buying out the few tickets they can find as they are now virtually impossible to find except at low volume mom and pop type corner stores. My problem with this is that it's a horrifying pay table so you get crushed playing it assuming you don't hit a top prize. But beyond that, my argument is that just because it hasn't technically been paid, that doesn't mean it's still out there to buy. In fact, I would estimate 99% likelihood someone is sitting in it or it's a winner that will never be claimed. Washington State alone currently has several big ticket winners set to expire unclaimed.
I am shocked at how many people have seen use this strategy right down to putting $20 or $30 in a machine, then pulling up the lottery page on their phone to see which game has the most unclaimed top prizes. To each his own, but I just see this as a very flawed strategy. Just wondering does anyone here do this ? And has it been successful ?
Hey Spencerjames, to me it's akin to betting on a complete puzzle outcome when it's uncertain even how many viable pieces remain (well truth be told buying scratch-offs, in general, amounts to the same thing, lol). But in the case of such saturation buying of a game in its ending days, albeit with a juicy prize still unclaimed, and involving serious $, data becomes paramount, right?
I've read of 7-figure prizes had here in FL from such concentrated end-game mopping up of tickets, but, unfortunately little insight has been provided into underlying method, reasoning, and approach.
The following article series touches on how, to me, odds and data requests are best leveraged.
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Quote: Originally posted by Cape $cratcher on Mar 12, 2022
Hey Spencerjames, to me it's akin to betting on a complete puzzle outcome when it's uncertain even how many viable pieces remain (well truth be told buying scratch-offs, in general, amounts to the same thing, lol). But in the case of such saturation buying of a game in its ending days, albeit with a juicy prize still unclaimed, and involving serious $, data becomes paramount, right?
I've read of 7-figure prizes had here in FL from such concentrated end-game mopping up of tickets, but, unfortunately little insight has been provided into underlying method, reasoning, and approach.
The following article series touches on how, to me, odds and data requests are best leveraged.
In essence it seems the surest action has followed subsequent to these data being readily available, per game:
--Beginning/current game ticket/book count, and prize #s/odds at all levels
--Current prize claim counts at all prize levels
--Book/ticket # of incurred prizes
--Location/site of remaining, active books (by book #).
Here in FL the above data gets, from top to bottom, massively less available. But in TX it seems to be at the ready. How are things there?
Part II: yes, lol, referencing remaining top prizes in a game when picking which to play is about as legit as playing Go Fish with the 3rd grade teacher...
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Wild odds swings with only one prize left. If I recall correctly someone on this board did a similar thing in Florida several years ago and found the top prize. Was also done in Texas many years ago.
Buying a large amount of tickets has serious risks particularly given the fact that someone could be sitting on the ticket or worse yet it could have been discarded as a loser by mistake.