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I don’t get it

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At most one person gets it… :)

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“A chance to win” can mean that chance is very little, almost impossible for you to accomplish, but that ‘chance’ is enough to make that phrase legally accurate. Think gacha games.

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As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer’s risk assessment.

And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.

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They could create a system that picks one person out of the millions that do it, and then still make a random number generator pick a number that they have to choose out of 1000, and it would still mean that “You have a chance” to win. Sure, a chance, like, but at what odds, and that’s only if they were actually checked if it was true.

We all know there was never a chance.

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