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Summer Forum Lottery!
With Greva's Casino open again, we thought it would be fun to have a little extra gambling fix here in the forum! The game is simple: every day we will pick a random number between 1 and 10000 using a public random number generator service. The player who guesses closest wins a prize. If you guess the number exactly you triple the jackpot!
Details
The contest will run for ten days, starting August 5 and ending August 14. Each daily lottery begins at midnight Eastern time, with entries received in the next 24 hour period being applied to the next drawing. (The actual drawings won't always happen promptly at midnight, but that will still be the cutoff time for the day's drawing, regardless.) The first day's contest will begin in the evening of Thursday August 4 and end in the evening of Friday August 5.
Each day will have it's own thread. To enter the contest, simply post in that thread with your guess (an integer between 1 and 10000, inclusive) and the world you would like your prize applied to if you win.
You can only enter once per day, so if you post more than once in a day only the last guess will be used. You are free to change your guess this way if you want. Posts won't count if made before midnight at the start of the day, or after midnight at the end of the day. If you edit your post after midnight at the end of the day, it will be disqualified.
The winning number for the day will be determined using the third party service TRENT. This is public random number generator that provides secure numbers for contests. Here is how it works: Prior to the start of each day, we will reserve a drawing number on TRENT. This is a unique ID code. We'll provide that code so anyone can verify that the number has been reserved. At the end of the day, we will use that code and generate the winning number. You can then check on the website that the code and number correspond, and when it was drawn. That way everyone knows that one and only one number was used, and nobody knows what the number is until the actual drawing.
If two or more players' guesses are equally close to the winning number, the tie will be broken by listing the players' names in alphanumeric order (as defined by Google Sheets). The day's winning number from TRENT will be divided by the number of players on the list, and the remainder from the division will determine the position on the list of the winning player. A remainder of zero means the first player on the list wins.
Prize list:
Friday August 5: Two Fishing Huts WINNER: Alexander the Blue!
Saturday August 6: Ten Watchfires WINNER: BruteForceAttack!
Sunday August 7: Bazaar WINNER: Cassaundrea!
Monday August 8: Renovation Kit WINNER: Queste!
Tuesday August 9: Luau WINNER: swerz!
Wednesday August 10: 250 diamonds WINNER: pygalgia!
Thursday August 11: Two Pole Houses WINNER: Alexander the Blue!
Friday August 12: Ten Victory Towers WINNER: ardak kumerin!
Saturday August 13: Oasis WINNER ardak kumerin!
Sunday August 14: Shrine of Knowledge WINNER Alexander the Blue!
Again, if you guess the winning number exactly, you win triple the stated prize!
Please Note:
Use this thread for questions and comments about the contest. To actually enter the contest you need to post in the daily thread which is titled "Summer Forum Lottery Entry Thread for <date>".
With Greva's Casino open again, we thought it would be fun to have a little extra gambling fix here in the forum! The game is simple: every day we will pick a random number between 1 and 10000 using a public random number generator service. The player who guesses closest wins a prize. If you guess the number exactly you triple the jackpot!
Details
The contest will run for ten days, starting August 5 and ending August 14. Each daily lottery begins at midnight Eastern time, with entries received in the next 24 hour period being applied to the next drawing. (The actual drawings won't always happen promptly at midnight, but that will still be the cutoff time for the day's drawing, regardless.) The first day's contest will begin in the evening of Thursday August 4 and end in the evening of Friday August 5.
Each day will have it's own thread. To enter the contest, simply post in that thread with your guess (an integer between 1 and 10000, inclusive) and the world you would like your prize applied to if you win.
You can only enter once per day, so if you post more than once in a day only the last guess will be used. You are free to change your guess this way if you want. Posts won't count if made before midnight at the start of the day, or after midnight at the end of the day. If you edit your post after midnight at the end of the day, it will be disqualified.
The winning number for the day will be determined using the third party service TRENT. This is public random number generator that provides secure numbers for contests. Here is how it works: Prior to the start of each day, we will reserve a drawing number on TRENT. This is a unique ID code. We'll provide that code so anyone can verify that the number has been reserved. At the end of the day, we will use that code and generate the winning number. You can then check on the website that the code and number correspond, and when it was drawn. That way everyone knows that one and only one number was used, and nobody knows what the number is until the actual drawing.
If two or more players' guesses are equally close to the winning number, the tie will be broken by listing the players' names in alphanumeric order (as defined by Google Sheets). The day's winning number from TRENT will be divided by the number of players on the list, and the remainder from the division will determine the position on the list of the winning player. A remainder of zero means the first player on the list wins.
Prize list:
Friday August 5: Two Fishing Huts WINNER: Alexander the Blue!
Saturday August 6: Ten Watchfires WINNER: BruteForceAttack!
Sunday August 7: Bazaar WINNER: Cassaundrea!
Monday August 8: Renovation Kit WINNER: Queste!
Tuesday August 9: Luau WINNER: swerz!
Wednesday August 10: 250 diamonds WINNER: pygalgia!
Thursday August 11: Two Pole Houses WINNER: Alexander the Blue!
Friday August 12: Ten Victory Towers WINNER: ardak kumerin!
Saturday August 13: Oasis WINNER ardak kumerin!
Sunday August 14: Shrine of Knowledge WINNER Alexander the Blue!
Again, if you guess the winning number exactly, you win triple the stated prize!
Please Note:
Use this thread for questions and comments about the contest. To actually enter the contest you need to post in the daily thread which is titled "Summer Forum Lottery Entry Thread for <date>".
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