Fits things first - My stimulus check showed up this morning in my bank account !!
Hey CAPE - your post was 2:15 am ..... I'm still sleeping :) ..........as you know LFL has about 23M total tickets outstanding - there are a couple GREAT prizes left and a bunch of $500/ $1000's .....I don't know why lottery is dumping the game, it might be the excitement has dwindled down to zero .... should you buy or not buy ? You're the expert with numbers and odds ..... but I would buy it ...... I very seldom buy just one ticket .....the way I see it there's a strong possibility you could hit 500 .....1000 ..... since I have a few times bought several tickets of a game only to witness the next person buying one and get the big one ! So how many should a person buy ? There is no answer ..... money to spend/waste/lose is always a major question ...... some will buy book after book and not hit the big one ... you'll read some winners saying they bought one or 'gee whiz this was my first ticket buy ever and I won a big prize or $1M' ...... or the person that wins $1M twice in a few months from the same store !! .........that's the way it works because that's just the nature of the game ....
I couldn't post the last 500 GRS I won because Walmart doesn't give your tickets back after cashing ... that' why I'll usually cash at PUBLIX, they give winners back just by asking ..... about GRS ..... I bought a bunch a few days ago with higher ticket numbers and got skunked .. looks like the starting books with 4 digit books is where I did OK are gone or at least I couldn't find anymore ... when you stop to consider GRS has a bank of 1 Billion dollars ... they can stretch out decent wins for quite a while ....
IMO there is no magic way or system with scratchers .... when some one wins a lot all of a sudden they write a book 'how to win' ......I knew of a couple rich guys that would plunk down 300 or 400 K at a time to buy POWERBALL or MEGA ...... they won a lot of small prizes but not the big one ... then you'll read about Grandma buying one ticket with her last dollar and win ..... like I said, "That's the nature of the game and gambling "
Hope Everyone Has Good Luck ! It's suppose to be FUN not an addiction .....