Back online!!

The absence has been clearly known due to lack of winning numbers and posting. Why does this happen? Internet has been crap lately and has been out the past few days. Not to mention when numbers are missed it’s internet down as well….well except 1 time, that time I was just kinda lazy and busy. Now that that’s settled, on to the week of the lottery playings I encountered.

I had a good day the other day to start off. Forgot to check out my winning numbers and had some notation that I won the jackpot. And of course the ideas run through my head on how I could now take it easy. To make things better I passed the Michigan Mega Millions sign and realized that the jackpot has been reset to 12 million meaning someone won the 44 million dollar jackpot last Tuesday! I was excited to say the least thinking maybe it was me that won, I could finally retire. This could be the day! Of course when I got home I was no winner and only managed to get 1 white ball number. Better to dream sometimes I guess.

I did happen to get my g/f addicted to scratch and win tickets and with the extra cash on hand we decided to do some luck investigating this week. I bought a 20 dollar Game Book, a 2 dollar bingo and a 5 dollar bingo scratch and win. She loved doing the bingo ones so it was entertaining at least. I was to curious about the game book and stupid me fell into the trap when the cashier handed it to me and said someone won 500 bucks last week there. I could feel the excitement……an hour later I felt jipped. When will I learn. I always have to have a 2nd shot at any scratch and win ticket I buy no matter what if I win or not. A 20 dollar ticket makes it worse though. Its a habit, it’s gone though. No more Game Book for me. But on the other hand the 2 dollar bingo card netted me 4 bucks in win and the 5 dollar bingo netted 5 bucks. So I spent 27 dollars, won 9 dollars and I’m only 18 bucks in the hole this week. Works for me. I’ll be interested in buying another 1 or 3 bingo scratch and win tickets to fight the urge. Very fun and take quite some time. It may be my new favorite type of scratch and win.

In terms of Mega Millions, didn’t win it Tuesday nor did I win it or anything else last night on Friday. Kind of a bummer but the Super Raffle set for a June 18th drawing. Still having plans on how it’s possible to make a living off that money through smart low risk investments while still maintaining a decent life style.

Tuesday May 29th, 2007  winning Jackpot -$12 Million Winning Numbers

12-19-29-32-48 - Mega Ball 09

Tuesday May 29th, 2007 Jackpot - estimated $16 Million

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $42

Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $2
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-40

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $75
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $19

Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-56

Game book, Game Over

It’s been a good memorial day so far in terms of the lottery hopes. A great place by the name of O’Charley’s that had excellent service as well as excellent food for a decent price. Over in Belleville, Michigan. If you go tell’em I sent ya…and they might look at you funny. But there was a meijer gas station next door and $3.41 a gallon for gas sounded like a great deal. Forget the fact that 3 years ago I would of screamed gas rape at $1.60 a gallon. So I went to get gas and got a mega millions ticket and a 2 for 1 scratch and win that proved to be … a loser. A buck isn’t that bad I guess for a chance to win even though the odds were almost 1 in 6 but they always say something like 1 in 5.9799454507 to make you feel like it’s better then 1 in 6. As we got back on the road my g/f suggested that if we were to spend 20 bucks driving around buying dollar scratch and wins the odds of actually winning would be greater! I always knew I loved her for a good reason. Our first stop was a mobil station where we decided we’d go with 10 $2 tickets instead. I went in and picked up a Silver & Gold ticket as our primary choice ticket.

When I was leaving something caught my eye that i’ve seen before. The almighty $10,000,000 Game Book ticket!! It’s 6 pages of scratch and win tickets in a little booklet for a mere $20. A steep price tag, but after some talking about it I put in an extra 2 bucks and we headed out to another store for the game book. The game book is not any ordinary 20 dollar game ticket but rather a collection of tickets that include:

Cashword: Your crossword game where you get a box of letters then scratch out the matching one’s in the crossword puzzle.

Blackout Bingo: Regular bingo, scratch off your box of numbers and match them with the 5 bingo cards.

Lucky Lines: Box of symbols that you gotta match up with the lines next to it to win said prize

Winner’s Circle: Scratch of numbers and then match them with a pie chart. There’s 3 circles inside as well as wedges of the pie chart. Match a circle or wedge and win money.

Winning Combination: Scratch off secret numbers and match 4 on a single lock to win prize below lock.

Mountains of Money: Scratch of letters and line up in a pyramid of lines to win prize:

Cashword Doubler: Same as cash word but with a chance to double prize if a word has a star in it

Variety Bingo: Same as regular bingo but each card has a shape that you can match up in addition to regular ways to win for a chance to win.

Those are all the games included in a nutshell. Are they all the same game book with same games? I don’t really know and I’m not sure if I want to find out other then asking the cashier what games are in the book which in reality I don’t think they could unless they were to rip it off then look inside leaving them with a single game book floating around. It was all fun though to play the scratch and win games. Was it worth the 20 bucks? It’s hard to say. On one hand, we had fun playing it and spent about an hour I’d say? Taking our good ole time scratching and rechecking to see if we did win anything. But on the next hand, we didn’t win a thing and spent 20 bucks on a scratch and win. It’s a toss up on the whole risk vs reward factor on whether it was worth it. If for some reason I feel lucky I MIGHT try 1 more due to the fact I have some money rolling it but I may just pass it up. What will I do? Not sure, but if I finally win that Super Raffle I know a lot of scratch and win tickets will be purchased.