The problem that I could see is that there are 7 big winners left ONLY if they have all been cashed in already AND the people keeping track accurately report what is left. I don't know anything about pull tabs other than what we have at local fairs. I'd think that figuring out odds for a case like this would also apply to your odds at winning raffles. I just cant help but think I could get lucky with all the big winners being close to the top or get screwed with them being at the very bottom. in the scenario above with 800 tickets and 7 big winners thats 1 in 115 tickets is a big winner. Theres a chance I could spend 100 and pull all the remaining big winning tickets and be up a lot of money, or theres a chance all the big winning tickets could be in the last 100 and I could be down a potential lot of money depending on the box. what are the odds that the tickets are close to the very end of the machine.

Now I figure if I had to buy every last ticket I'd be down at max 200 bucks.īut what I cant figure out is what are the odds I'd actually go down in money. I ended up spending 200 bucks and winning 250 leaving the box with about 800 tickets, 575 in big winners spread across 7 tickets when I got kicked out at closing time.

I figured that was great odds considering how many tickets per winners there usually are, and what are the odds of most of the winners being at the bottom, I should go positive in money at some point and then I'd quit while I was ahead. So I figure if the very last ticket is a big winner and I have to buy them all to recoup my losses I'd be down a maximum of 150ish bucks. it had around 985ish tickets and 10 big winners left totaling 825 bucks at 1 buck per ticket. Today I was in a bar and looked at the machine. The machines have lines that tell you how many tickets are left, where the boxes you have to guesstimate. In a few places they have machines which you stick money in and get tickets and turn winners into a real person (usually a bartender). Usually tickets are thrown into a box and the big winner tickets have a board where they get crossed off as they are won. As you may or may not know, pull tabs are a very popular gambling game in Minnesota.

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