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#1

That would be the case if they only drew ONE person. They actually are
drawing 25, out of (approximately) 50 participants. If you have 2%+ of the total
electronic entries, you have around a 50-50 chance of being picked among the 25
winners.

.973 ^ 25 is approximately 50%. So 2.7% of the drum gets you a 50-50 chance
of being picked. However...

...it's actually a bit more complicated than that, as each time someone is
drawn, the rest of his entries disappear from the "drum," so uncalled players'
chances increase as the drawing progresses. You might actually need less
than 2% of the total entries, in order to give you a 50% chance of being picked.

Brian

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In a message dated 2/2/2009 2:39:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
LGTVegas@gmail.com writes:

In order to receive a 1 in 2 chance of winning money,
you would have to have 50% of the (electronic/ticketless)
sweepstakes tickets in the (virtual) drum.

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#2

Brian,

I understand that there are 25 tickets being drawn. But,
nowhere in this thread did the original poster (who received
the offer) say that the sweepstakes rules state "only one
prize may be won by each contestant."

My assumption was that each participant can win more than
one prize. And, all of my statements were based on that
assumption.

If my assumption is incorrect, then obviously my statement
below is equally incorrect.

Curtis

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On 2/2/09, bjaygold@aol.com <bjaygold@aol.com> wrote:

That would be the case if they only drew ONE person. They actually are
drawing 25, out of (approximately) 50 participants. If you have 2%+ of the
total
electronic entries, you have around a 50-50 chance of being picked among
the 25
winners.

.973 ^ 25 is approximately 50%. So 2.7% of the drum gets you a 50-50 chance
of being picked. However...

...it's actually a bit more complicated than that, as each time someone is
drawn, the rest of his entries disappear from the "drum," so uncalled
players'
chances increase as the drawing progresses. You might actually need less
than 2% of the total entries, in order to give you a 50% chance of being
picked.

Brian

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In a message dated 2/2/2009 2:39:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
LGTVegas@gmail.com writes:

In order to receive a 1 in 2 chance of winning money,
you would have to have 50% of the (electronic/ticketless)
sweepstakes tickets in the (virtual) drum.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]