The SmartFactor is our proprietary algorithm applied to every scratch off game.
It uses two very critical pieces of data.
One is the total number of top prizes remaining.
The other is percentage of tickets sold.
The algorithm is the proportion of top prizes remaining vs the % of tickets remaining for sale. If the proportion is higher than expected based on the odds of winning that top prize, then the SmartFactor value is increased. The higher the SmartFactor, the better your odds are of winning a top prize.
Essentially, we’re counting cards – just like professional blackjack players do- at the risk of getting thrown out of the casino and banned for life!
While this explanation is rather simple, determining the Percentage of Tickets sold can be a challenge in different states. We spend a lot of time putting data gathering scripts in place to get just the right data from each states website to calculate this value.
What is the smart factor? was last modified: November 27th, 2020 by David Hafer
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Subscribers who do not wish to auto-renew their subscription can easily turn it off at any time.
Step 1: Simply choose “Subscriptions” after logging into your account
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Step 3: change the auto-renew toggle button from ON to OFF!
It’s that simple!
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Turn off AUTO-RENEWAL was last modified: August 17th, 2020 by David Hafer
Yes! Most states do have this DATA for free on their website, but DATA is not INFORMATION. It isn’t analyzed and you can’t make a smart decision based on data alone. All data has to be analyzed to become actionable information!
Think about getting the temperature for where ever you are on any given day. You get the piece of data that says 65 degrees. That is just data. You mentally process that data to decide if 65 is good or bad. If you’re in Alaska, 65 is a HOT summer day! If you’re in southern Florida, 65 is freezing!! (I have a sister who lives there, trust me, 65 if cold for her!0
The same goes for instant games. Knowing that a game is NEW is just a marketing ploy. Knowing that a game has 1 top prize left – is that good or bad? What if it has 5 top prizes left? these numbers are JUST RELATIVE – you need to analyze it to determine if 1 or 5 is good – relative to how many tickets are left for that game and relative to all of the other games for sale that you can buy from!
That is what ScratchSmarter does for you! We give you that analysis to tell you if a game is, statistically, better to play than last week AND relative to all of the other games you could possibly play today!
Most states have this data for free? Why should I PAY for ScratchSmarter? was last modified: November 16th, 2019 by David Hafer
We had this game scraped and in our database from our history of scraping the TN lottery. You can still find the game on the TN lottery website as it is still referenced here:
I’m, from Tennessee. I’m curious, the number you have listed in your “Best Games to Play” report Giant Jumbo Buck, overall ranking #14 is it correct. When searching for the game number on the TNLottry website, it states there is no matching records found. was last modified: November 16th, 2019 by Alicia Whitaker
We do not guarantee email delivery, but that doesn’t mean you’re not on our mailing list. Our mailing lists are pulled directly from our list of subscribers in our orders list every week. If you placed an order, you are on our weekly list and we ARE trying to get you your reports!
Here is a self-help guide you can use to get your reports in your INBOX every week!
STEP
WHAT TO DO:
RESULT:
DO THIS NEXT:
1
On the first Friday after you ordered, check your email inbox
We send out reports by email every Friday by 5 pm est.
(please wait until 5 pm EST to check your inbox)
Found our email?
YES? ———–>
NO? Go to STEP 2
NO PROBLEM – your reports are getting through to your inbox!
BUT, to be safe, please add BESTGAMES@SCRATCHSMATER.COM to your list of contacts with your email provider to make sure you KEEP getting reports and important information about your subscription account.
Your email address is correct in our system and YOU ARE on our weekly mail list, BUT your email provider is blocking our emails to you.
Some email providers have very strong filtering rules for bulk emails. All or our weekly reports are sent through a BULK mailing program.
We are just being blocked – and not even getting to your junk mail folder.
You have three options:
1) Just use our Members page.! BOOKMARK your reports page in your browser and come back to that page every week. This is your best option because our reports are automatically posted there every Friday by 12:00 noon EST, a lot earlier than when our emails go out!
2) Contact your email provider help desk and tell them you’re not getting a report you paid for.
3) If options 1&2 don’t work, and you REALLY HAVE to have your report emailed to you, then create a free account on GMAIL.com. Next, create a new user account on ScratchSmarter.com with your new email address. Then, email info@ScratchSmarter.com and request that we move your subscription from your old address to the new address.
PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR ORDER NUMBER IN THE EMAIL so we can verify it’s you requesting the change.
We have custom software code for every state’s website.
When states change their website, we have to fix our code. Sometimes it takes us a week or more to fix the code and catch the new games.
We are not perfect, but we do try to be. If you see a big miss on our reports, please let us know by emailing us at Info@ScratchSmarter.com. Be sure to tell us WHICH STATE and which game name and game number (if possible) are missing.
NOTE: please don’t worry too much about new games not being on our reports for a couple of weeks. EVERY NEW GAME starts with a SmartFactor of 1.0 because, there usually isn’t a big sale of tickets in the first couple of weeks, so there won’t be much of top prize odds changing in your favor. In other words ALL new games will start at YELLOW with a SmartFactor around 1.0. Yes, this means that playing “NEW GAMES” is not a good strategy if you’re really trying to win a big prize!
Now that you’re through the top questions we get from new subscribers…..
Please be sure to check out our Scratch-off 101 details here:
“Est % Sold” is ScratchSmarter’s estimate of the total percentage of tickets sold.
For example: If a game’s original printing is 10,000,000 tickets, we can calculate every week how many of those 10,000,000 tickets have sold. (50% would mean there are 5,000,000 tickets sold and 5,000,000 remaining. The higher the Est % of tickets sold number is, the more difficult it may be for you to find a game in your area.
Follow up question: Why don’t we show the actual number of tickets sold or the actual number of tickets remaining?
The percentage remaining is more important than the “actual number” for calculating how odds change. And the EST % sold will give you an idea of how difficult it might be to find a game for sale in your area! The higher the % sold, the more difficult it will be to find that game.
NOTE:: If a game on our report has a very high SmartFactor and is >90% sold, you should be playing that game (if it is in your budget) because the lottery might pull that game soon! They’re hoping to keep from having to pay out those top prizes and keep that profit for the state!
BUT PLEASE DO NOT START BUYING ENTIRE PACKS OF TICKETS! That is a sure way to lose a lot of money because the odds of winning are still not in your favor. Follow the strategies we suggest in our Video Secrets for buying tickets!
Remember to play within your budget and let us know when you win! We give out some great rewards just for taking a picture of your winning tickets! See our REWARDS PAGE HERE!
Unfortunately, we have no idea which retailers have which games in stock. The only state lottery that has a search function for retailers with “games in stock” is Wisconsin.
It doesn’t look like any other lotteries publish this information. Why? Probably because its either too hard to keep up to date OR it exposes the lottery to their dirty trick of pulling games early.
PLEASE NOTE: WE STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU DO NOT “CHASE THE BEST GAME” by running around to all of the retailers in your area to find the best game. You’ll go CRAZY running around looking for some of these games (BECAUSE THE LOTTERY PULLS THEM EARLY – Remember Video Secret #3). Just play the very best games you can find when you want to play! And remember, you’re Scratching Smarter now, so NEVER play a Yellow or a Red game on our reports – they’re just a waste of money because odds of winning big are ALWAYS better on GREEN GAMES!
You should, however, play from the retailers in your area who do have better games. Look around, and, over time, you’ll find that all the retailers are not the same. Some only have bad games and some consistently carry better games!
