Juzzle
- 20 Oct 2008 23:02
This lottery involves placing ten familiar FTSE-100 stocks in order of expected performance each day. Get 3 of them right (odds about 16 to 1) and you win back your 1 ticket stake. Progressively bigger prizes for getting 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 right. Get all ten in the right order and the daily prize is 100,000
There is also a weekly million pound prize that can be played for.
www.the4thMarket.com
Has anyone here tried it? It's a neat looking site.
Juzzle
- 21 Oct 2008 13:35
- 2 of 2
Get 3 right (odds ~1/16) win 1 (ie get your ticket stake back)
Get 4 right (odds ~1/65) win 5
Get 5 right (odds ~1/327) win 10
Get 6 right (odds 1/1920) share 10% of prize fund
Get 7 right (odds 1/15,120) share 25% of prize fund
Get 8 right (odds 1/80,640) share 65% of prize fund
Get all 10 right (odds 1/3,628,800) win 100,000
(odds marked with a "~" are rounded off)
For comparison, here are the odds for the National Lottery:
3 numbers : 1/54 (win 10)
4 numbers: 1/1033
5 numbers: 1/55,492
5 numbers + bonus ball: 1/2,330,636
6 numbers: 1/13,983,816 (win or share jackpot)