Raffle 3: Dear Esther, Ethereal, Figment, Last Day of June, Memoranda, Quest for Infamy, The Norwood Suite

[jaygummers]

Imma need some raffle tickets for myself! Also, Hi everyone, I am new to this simple method to get $5 google play gift card & forum and would love to know you guys as well.

[wasabiyoyo]

hey my person, hope you have a good time here. Some people here are awesome

[Vindace]

Hey welcome! stick around and make yourself comfortable .

[dirtybritches]

@coralinecastell

I’m leaving a friendly reminded to try and go for that sweet sweet Certified badge when you have the time!

how does one do that? i dont have anything about new user tutorial in my inbox. maybe it’s because i’ve joined before it was implemented? not sure.

@ohko

Earn the Certified badge by completing the new user tutorial. Every member receives their first PM from @discobot - check your inbox for details.

[coralinecastell]

Hey!

I tried to start it and it worked, so I screenshotted it on my phone for you. I hope it’s clear. Just click to read moree:

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1. PM @ discobot (without the space). Content of message doesn't matter.

2. Type in "@ discobot display help" (again without the space)

3. "@ discobot start new user"

4. Bookmark that post and follow from there...

[CreatureFeet]

[DontBeSilly]

Hi there

[hinrad]

Thanks for the raffle and good luck to everyone!

[sluz]

thanks for another one again, and this time i’ll enter

good luck all!!

[ohko]

@discobot roll 8d16

[discobot]

1, 16, 16, 1, 13, 3, 12, 7

[ohko]

Entries are now locked

I will process the results soon. I’m away from home right now, so it might take a little longer this time.

Thanks to everyone who entered

[wasabiyoyo]

PIZZA ROLL PLEASE

[mysticlloyd]

@mysticlloyd

I don’t actually understand how the tickets work in this raffle with the dice roll, does someone who applies 1 ticket to a game have the same chance of winning as someone who applies more?

I thought this might have been addressed before the raffle ended but either I missed it or it must have not been seen

[ohko]

I’m back home now so I’m processing the entry data now

Results will be posted soon

@mysticlloyd

does someone who applies 1 ticket to a game have the same chance of winning as someone who applies more?

Imagine each prize has a bucket and each of your tickets has your name printed on it. All tickets for each prize are mixed up and one (1) ticket is drawn at random, per prize bucket. If you submitted six (6) tickets and someone else submitted two (2), it’s three (3) times more likely that one of your tickets will be drawn.

So yes, your odds of winning a particular prize increase per ticket you put in each prize bucket.

[xenocurious]

Hi! I’m not grokking how generating 8 numbers with the value 1 thru 16 maps to drawing the winning tickets. One possible implementation would put all tickets entered for a game into a game’s bucket, noting an entrant’s name on each ticket, and generating a random number between 1 and the number of tickets in each game’s bucket to draw the winning ticket. For this raffle there’d be 7 buckets. What am I missing?

[ohko]

Just a moment while we deal with a technicality. Raffle 3 winners will be announced momentarily. Thanks for your patience.

We’ll be right back

[ohko]

@ljrounds

I’m not grokking how generating 8 numbers with the value 1 thru 16 maps to drawing the winning tickets.

The raffle program is open source and linked in the results of each raffle. The technical details are discussed in Raffle 1, if you’re interested. Let me know if you have any questions

[xenocurious]

Thank you! For everyone else, the answer’s in this post. The numbers generated by discobot are used to provide a 32-bit seed to the random number generator used by the raffle implementation.

[wasabiyoyo]

cmon man, give me a new pair of boots