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[UPDATED: Round 2 winner is Alph, Spriggan, Tii, Zille] The Giants Lottery of Greater Ur!™

[EDIT - Round 2 winner is Alph, Spriggan, Tii, Zille]

LOTTERY IS CLOSED

Posted 15 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • a question: why five rolls if only four numbers are needed to win?
    Posted 14 months ago by Dee Sub Wun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dee, for the very good reason that I cut and pasted from the original post and didn't edit very well. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A darn good reason!:) GL everyone!:)
    Posted 14 months ago by Dee Sub Wun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Prize update: 156,809 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Has the mail bug for attachments been fixed yet? Because as of this morning I still can't get my lottery ticket from the LAST go round, and effectively lost 100 currants on it as quick picks apparently weren't written down.
    Posted 14 months ago by Death Cuddle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Death Cuddle, I think it has been fixed.

    I am keeping much better records this time.

    Prize update: 187,678 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ur is a competitive place. Everyone wants your hard earned currants. Especially shady gambling operations that have horrible odds.

    So why should you participate in The Giants Lottery over all the others? 
    Are we shady? Yeah. Maybe a little.
    Do we have horrible odds? Oh, yes. TERRIBLE odds.

    So why us?

    - It's only 100c! Other lotteries charge 2/3 of an apartment!
    - You get to pick you own numbers! Others have you randomly select a ticket from auction. With us you pick. (Or not. We'll pick if you want.)
    - Actually we don't have numbers. We have Giants! And the Rook! That's, as the say in Shimla Mirch, a whole lot Glitchier.
    - The suspense is the fun! Sure. Instant gratification is dandy, but in the 5 or so days until the drawing you can still dream. With the other guys, the dream is over right away. We don't kill the dream til Friday.
    - We do a live drawing. Well, rolling. With a 12-sided die. So if you are online at the time, you can actually witness the roll as it happens. It's like the PowerBall on TV... except I'm not as pretty as the PowerBall lady.
    - And, perhaps most importantly, our prize money is HUGE! And with every ticket sold, it gets bigger.

    So, hey. Why not try us. We're all trying to take your money, but we do it in style,
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Prize update: 190,601 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Is there a round next week?
    Posted 14 months ago by Timothy Hay Subscriber! | Permalink
  • .....resists urge to buy ticket....MUST RESIST.....
    Posted 14 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Timothy Hay - If there is no winner on Friday, I will do another (again prize money rolling over)... but with only THREE Giants.

    @ Cupcake - Come on. You know you want to. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • HEADS UP! There are fake Lord Bacon-os out there! Trust none put the real thing!

    Prize update: 215,007 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Cupcake  Resistance is futile.
    @Lord Bacon-o   It's worth 100 currants to read this most entertaining thread! Too, too funny!
    Posted 14 months ago by welshcorgi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Cupcake  Resistance is futile.
    @Lord Bacon-o   It's worth 100 currants to read this most entertaining thread! Too, too funny!
    Posted 14 months ago by welshcorgi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ALERT! ALERT!
    Prize money update!
    We've cross the quarter million mark!
    Current prize total: 257,061 currants.

    Also having to institute new policy: We cannot accept random pick order of more that 5 ticket from any individual. If you have already sent in orders, they will be filled but after today, no more. (It's pain in the ass.)

    You have until 12:01am Friday, Oct 14th to order. But why wait?
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Update: 287,614 currants.

    You have 75 hours to get in your orders.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Reminders:
    1) You have until the end of Thursday to buy tickets.
    2) There are only 4 numbers this time.

    LOCATION OF THE DRAWING TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Prize Update: 291,406 currants.

    So close to 300,000!
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Prize money: 335,347 currants!

    We at Elbow Grease™ would like to mention The GAR Foundation for its tireless support for the Giants Lottery. It regularly purchase large blocks of tickets using a system that is pretty much incomprehensible.

    When we say large, we mean large. Insanely large. So large in fact that we don't take a percentage off the top of their purchases and pour it straight into the prize money.

    So at tax time, think of making a donation to The GAR Foundation.

    Also: We were super tired and our of it last night while sending out tickets. There is that inkling in the back of our minds that we may have made some mistakes. If you have ordered tickets and any of the following have happened, please IM or send us some Frog Mail:
    • Got a letter but no ticket were included.
    • Got a ticket but numbers were wrong or not enough of them.
    • Got letter but instead of a ticket it was what appeared to be Uncle Friendly/Helga slash fic.
    • Did not receive any letter at all.

    AND FINALLY: Drawing is on Friday. But where you ask? UNNU SLIGHT in Bortola! 2pm PDT! 

    (Reminder you do NOT have to be at the drawing to win. Results will be immediately post here. BUT you must send in winning tickets by the end of Sunday, Oct 16th.)
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wait just a minute here.  Some folks got Uncle Friendly/Helga slash with their tickets?  I was robbed!  Where's mine?
    Posted 14 months ago by Varekai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Varekai, I'm not saying anyone did. I'm just saying that if there was some slash fic in my bags and now I can't find it... well...

    Prize update: 336,627c.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If the prize money crosses 450,000c, I going to throw in 50,000 of my own money.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Challenge accepted.
    Posted 14 months ago by Gar Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm off to buy a single ticket. The overwhelming odds are what make this fantastic. See you at the draw Lord Bacon-o.
    Posted 14 months ago by David Darkly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What could I buy for that much c?
    Posted 14 months ago by One Sixteen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, One Sixteen... you could buy your dream house... and buy one for five of your closest friends!   <g>

    Or you could meet new players and offer to buy one bean for 10,000 currants.  :)    Hmmm... not sure which is worth more.... a bean or a cherry....
    Posted 14 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You have until midnight to buy your tickets...

    Prize money is at 408,560 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And we crossed the 450K line... so that means I'm throwing in 50K... so that means...

    Current prize total: 500,614 currants.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Only 12 hours left to get ticket orders.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ticket sales are closed.
    Drawing (rolling, whatevers) at 2pm today.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Could someone write a post with 'draw will be in X hours/minutes from this post' to let us non Americans have an idea of what time it will be?
    Posted 14 months ago by Zira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Can do, Zira!

    The drawing will be:
    1) 7 hours.
    2) 9pm GMT

    NOTE: You do not have to attend the drawing. The results will be posted here (both in in a new post an at the top of the original post. BUT you must still have possession of the ticket to claim the prize. If you win, you have until the end of Monday to send it to me. Prize money will be split amongst all winning tickets on Tuesday morning. 

    If you currently have any issue with tickets, send me a message within the next 5 hours. After that time there will be very little costumer service can do for you.

    I'm going to keep the final prize total a secret until the drawing.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A little late for me, I'll have to go to bed with the suspence and come read the forums first thing in the morning :)
    This is getting exciting, thanks for posting the time and for all the hard work that must be involved!
    Posted 14 months ago by Zira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How is it possible this person used almost the exact same letters as your name? http://www.glitch.com/profiles/PA9VN9MTFSD2L79/

    Would this mean more letters can be changed to the "unbolded" version and thus there could be hundreds of duplicate names to trick people?
    Posted 14 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • TomC, yeah. I warned folks about him in a previous post. Hopefully not many go scammed. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @TomC that guy most likely use the German letter "ß" or another similar looking letter from another non-English alphabet.

    edit: actually, looks like he used the Ve letter from the Cyrillic alphabet
    Posted 14 months ago by Devers Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Live rolling in less than 2 hours!

    At Unnu Slight!
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One hour. Unnu Slight.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Round 2 winner is Alph, Spriggan, Tii, Zille.

    I know for a fact there is at least one winner.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Darn, I was so close!  I had Pot, Alph , Tii, and Zille.  Oh well!  Thanks for the fun, Lord Bacon-o and congrats to any winners!
    Posted 14 months ago by Himitsu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • not. one. giant. :(
    grats to the winner!
    Posted 14 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Checked more of the records.

    At least two winners.

    (Might be more as some records were destroyed in an ill timed laptop crash.)

    I quick thank you to everyone who play. And everyone who donated paper or random things. Such nice Glitchen out there.

    A special shout out to The Gar Foundation. Their enthusiasm was massive. I may have done the labor but the MASSIVE amount of ticket they bought is why the prize money got so high.

    I will not be doing another one anytime soon. If someone else wants to run with the idea, please do. It's great way to get to know people but a lot of work. If some wants, I would gladly share what I learned (and give some thoughts on what I'd do differently).
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Was worth the 1k, didn't win but was so close.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • oh boy----I won! Just kidding. But it was fun and I want to thank you, LBO, for organizing this fun activity. Great job!
    Posted 14 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Weren't player run lotteries forbidden? I've heard from players that were told to stop by staff members, and even threatened to have their accounts deleted if they didn't.
    Posted 14 months ago by Macadamia Ellicott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Macadamia Ellicott: I'd say it's probably okay, given that this thread has been on the front page for quite some time and there hasn't been any protest
    Posted 14 months ago by Devers Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was told by staff members to stop or my account could be deleted(if I did it again) for writing notes for a lottery, but also a staff member has posted in here saying the exact opposite (that this is okay), so I wonder what the actual official stance is? At least one of them has known for at least a week.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Personally, I do not know.

    Thoughts?
    1) I started this the day of launch and perhaps they were waiting for it to just be completed.
    2) Because of the live drawing/rolling their was less chance of fraud. (Still chance. I tried to lessen it as much as possible.)
    3) This did not occupy the auctions. Potentially that was an issue.
    4) My cut was small (and ended up being much less than my stated % cut. My cut ended up being closer to 5 to 8%).
    5) There is a slight a chance I had built up some good will.

    Honestly, as fun as this may have been for folks, it was a huge pain in the ass and i don't recommend it to anyone.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well. it was fun Lord B - but I am not surprized to hear it was a PITA for you.  Thanks for all the hard work you put in.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you have a winning ticket, tomorrow is your last chance to send it in.

    The two winners I knew about have already done so (no, worries there).
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you very much for organising this and showing me the scale that projects in Glitch can attain. Well done!
    Posted 14 months ago by Dame Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Prize money has been given out. Each of the two winners won 252,825 currants.

     I have not heard back from one of the winners, but one has allowed me to tell you his name. Each won

    Devers! And I quote, "[I] might just blow it on no no and cubimals."
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shoulda been no-no and high class hoes. ;)
    Posted 14 months ago by Meezley Subscriber! | Permalink
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