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What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Xirex on 06-12-2007 at 11:17 AM

Well, I've done a small calculation.
Very simple method, the picture your trying to click has an almost size of 700 X 765, meaning the total number of pixels is around 535,500
The maximum number of prizes is 45.

So, 45 pixel are the only pixels out of the 535,500 other pixels that contains a gift.

45/535,500 = 0.000084

Meaning, if you want to know what is your chance out of hundred to win,
it is 0.0084 out of hundred.

For those whom already won, you where very lucky ;)

For others playing, now @ the moment, the prizes are 33,
So the chance is obviously lot less, Good Luck.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by prashker on 06-12-2007 at 11:18 AM

UNDER 900000000000000000000


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Oxy on 06-12-2007 at 11:41 AM

Not great.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by joey on 06-12-2007 at 12:29 PM

i like those odds!!!


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Volv on 06-12-2007 at 12:58 PM

You're wrong. The picture is 701x766 so your chances are significantly less.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by joey on 06-12-2007 at 01:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ICD
i like those odds!!!

RE: RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Xirex on 06-12-2007 at 01:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Volv
You're wrong. The picture is 701x766 so your chances are significantly less.


Indeed, you are right, I forgot to include the 0,0 Pixel.
So, lets calculate again.

701 X 766 = 536966

Chances for 33 gifts
33 / 536966 = 0.000061

Chance out of hundred = 0.0061

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Wish you all happy clicking, & BTW, according to the SODA thing mentioned in the instructions, am sure you will need a lot of it.

RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by aberrate on 06-12-2007 at 01:25 PM

Yeah, but that's still wrong - because you can click as many times as you like.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by joey on 06-12-2007 at 01:29 PM

i can see this calulation having letters for meaning before it ends....


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Volv on 06-12-2007 at 02:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aberrate
Yeah, but that's still wrong - because you can click as many times as you like.
But with any click, that's your probability of winning. Ofcourse now there are less prizes though :p
RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by absorbation on 06-12-2007 at 02:39 PM

I can conclude the probably of winning a prise is extremely low :zippy:. I find this a clever way to think of trying your luck:

'The lottery is a tax on people bad at Maths'


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Active_Camo on 06-14-2007 at 12:16 PM

With 536966 co-ordinates

and 27 prizes left

that makes...

a chance of....

0.0000502825

or

0.00502825/100

or

roughly

5/100000

so

if everyone in a america (roughly) clicked randomly at the same time, 15057 would get a prize.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by NanaFreak on 06-14-2007 at 12:19 PM

lawl i have 0% because i am using 4.22 ;o


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Nefzen on 06-18-2007 at 05:44 PM

chances! ^_^
after a discussion in the "results from the 2nd week", it is now understood that you don't get all the 45 prizes at once, but they are slowly released throughout the contest.
being a little bit less optimistic, with a grid of 701x766 (though... I find it unlikely that the prizes are at the edges), the chance for a single, totally random click is indeed 1.8*10^-6 which is 0.0000018
(a little less than 2 in a million)

in one hour, you can click about 400 to 600 clicks, and that gives you
a chance of about 0.0007~0.0011, which is about 1 in a thousand.
following that line, if you continuously click until you've won, you have a 10% chance of winning within the first 4 to 6 (depending on your rate of clicking) days of non stop, 24 hours clicking. A 90% chance of winning is only achieved within 128 solid days of clicking (aka you have a 10% chance of winning only after 128 days =/)

luckily (or, unluckily) there are thousands of players so prizes goes quickly.


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by kevinlock on 06-23-2007 at 06:59 AM

never tell me the odds!


- han solo


RE: What Is Your Chance of Winning in The Contest by Chrono on 06-23-2007 at 08:47 AM

thank you for teaching me how to calculate a simple percentage 8-)

Seriously though, this has been posted heaps of times already :P

Closed.

quote:
Originally posted by Nefzen
it is now understood
no, it's been there from the beggining of the contest in the rules section, which you should've read btw :P