Wednesday, October 11, 2006

There Are Long Odds and REALLY Long Odds

Life is a gamble, they say, whoever they may be, but what about the new Mickey D’s Monopoly game, what are the odds of winning more than, say, a burger or a fry?  Pretty long, evidently.

Next up is the $50 prize. Odds of winning: approximately 1 in 91,697. Not great.

Odds of winning a Sony Platinum DVD Dream System Home theater and Flat Panel HDTV: about 1 in 91,697,000. Yipes.

Trip for two to Vegas? Odds are 114,621,250 to 1 against it. Start walking.

It’s about 3.5 billion to 1 against you getting a $50,000 prize. As for the $5 million prize of all prizes: “Odds of winning are approximately 1 in 41,497,391,309."

And for those who think they’re lucky, Richard Roeper pens a real world example on just how lucky you would have to be to win the Mickey D’s Monopoly big prize.

In other words, you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning while on your way home from purchasing a winning Lotto ticket with your wife, Jessica Alba, the first lady of the United States.

Fine print on $5 million contest: You don’t have a McChance

Via The Obscure Store.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/11 at 05:21 AM
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