Our latest version of the “Game Book” remains popular after a year on the market, and two recent suggestions from players about it were really insightful in terms of helping us design future games.
With six pages of games within each ticket, our “Little Black Game Book” offers many ways to win. And in the last few weeks, players have offered suggestions about two of the games that it contains. They referenced “Prize Line Bingo” on page 2 and “In$tant Winner” on page 4.
One player said she knew right away that she didn’t win a prize on the Prize Line Bingo game within the Game Book because she didn’t get a number under each of the Bingo letters in the “Caller’s Card” section. (Those familiar with this game know that they need to complete a B-I-N-G-O line to win a prize.)
After receiving that feedback, we reviewed the specifics of that section with our game-development team here at the lottery. Because numbers are randomly assigned within the Caller’s Card area. there’s no guarantee that you’ll receive at least one of each of the Bingo letters. But we know that one of the reasons players choose our Game Book scratch tickets is for the extended play that they offer. So, the folks on our development team said they’ll make adjustments so that in the future, Bingo games within a Game Book will have at least one of each of the Bingo letters in the Caller’s Card section.
Bingo is just one of the games available within the pages of any Game Book ticket, so there are multiple chances to win every time, but we want to do our best to produce a fun playing experience on each page!
Another player offered a suggestion about the In$tant Winner game within the current Game Book. In that game, one of the ways you can win is if you reveal a prize amount in one of the “Instant Bonus” circles. The nonwinning play symbols in that area include a “dollar,” “piggybank,” coin, etc.
A woman emailed us last week and said she found the dollar-bill symbol in that area confusing. She said she thought she should have won $1 after uncovering that symbol.
We’re reviewing that section and may use different symbols in the future in games with a similar play style. But we’ll make any such adjustments carefully, as there may be as many interpretations about the meaning of symbols as there are people in the world.
Have additional comments or suggestions about our Little Black Game Book? Let us know in the comments section below, or email us at [email protected]. We always appreciate your feedback!
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Posted by: Martin Peter | March 04, 2017 at 11:52 PM
Hi, Todd. Thanks for your suggestions! I'll share your comments with our team as well. As I had discussed with George, the prize levels within a game are always a balancing act, so it's good for us to hear from players about what they like. As for The Little Black Game Book's performance, I guess that is an issue on which we'll have to agree to disagree. Seven of the game's nine top prizes have been claimed and players have also won more than 12,000 prizes in the game so far from $100 up to $10,000. It appears to me that the game has been popular and has paid out prizes to players all across the state. Thanks again for playing and for your feedback!
Posted by: Mary Neubauer | March 01, 2017 at 09:21 AM
I would like to see a game with more intermediate wins, like 25000.00 and 50000.00 with the big wins also. there should be more big winners. with this game being out for over a year and only having 7 big wins. that is very poor payout on this game. it is very hard to even win your money back.
Posted by: todd hoover | February 28, 2017 at 09:00 PM
Really good feedback, George. I will share this with our game-planning committee. It's an issue we weigh in all our games: Is it better to offer a few really big prizes or to offer smaller prizes overall, but more of them? In general, our players have voted with their pocketbooks on this issue and have preferred the second option I described, meaning games with smaller top prizes overall, but more of them, and more prize levels overall within a particular game. It's a balancing act for sure, and something we always consider when we review new game ideas.
Posted by: Mary Neubauer | February 27, 2017 at 11:57 AM
Change the top prize to at least 500,000.00$ paying 20$ for a ticket that has a top prize of 100,000$ just is not worth it.
Posted by: George Lowrey | February 26, 2017 at 09:47 PM