Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!amd!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Gold Coast Distributers Message-ID: <191@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 15:45:08 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.191 Posted: Fri Dec 28 15:45:08 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 02:14:09 EST References: <44000013@uiucdcs.UUCP> <70900023@trsvax.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 23 > > > Aren't they supposed to provide a list of odds for the awards? Ask > to see a list, and look for the prize with the highest odds of > winning. > > mikey at trsvax I've noticed that the odds are usually stated something like Prize one: one in one hundred thousand, prize two: seven in one hundred thousand, prize three: ninty nine thousand nine hundred ninty-two in one hundred thousand. Besides being nearly impossible to read, the odds of winning some prize almost always are exactly one in one. I don't know about Gold Coast, but this seems to be the pattern with the "You've won a prize" promotions. -- Ed Gould {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed