Pigsback - Free Gifts for Clicks - Newbies Please Read the First Post!!

Merlin139

If I make a suggestion to flobber.

If you wish to work out the chances of winning you should start by keeping a daily record of all of the daily winners. I have done this since July last year on a database. (My reason for this was due to the frequency of names appearing). When you feel that you have a large enough collection of stats then you can work it out, but only if you know how many people are entering the competions eachday. I did contact PB and ask them and published the reply on this forum.

If you want to enter the competitions to be in with a chance to win then do so. If you think that your time spent entering the competitions is not worth the possible reward then why are you wasting your time asking all these questions when you will get no reward for it.

Thanks to all the regular posters I spend around 1 min eachday doing PB now by checking the 2nd post in the thread. If I win then so be it. If I don't then so be it. At the end of each year without entering anything you should make about £40 minimum from the site if you do all the CT's and the weekly points questions.

itsbeef

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........

BRING BACK "FUNNY GUY!!!!"

:beer: :j :rotfl: :T

frugalpam

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Reading "How to lie with statistics" might also be a more profitable use of your time.

My economics tutor at college defined statistics as " a set of figures looking for an argument"....

Pam

funnyguy

I find 4.22 and 32 seconds in the morning the best time to enter a quiz to win..try it tomorrow

funnyguy

good grief i see what you mean Edna ,I have just read over the lasts days posts..you could have more fun at a funeral than reading all that.....yawn..

Erinath

flobber wrote: »

If probability of winning every month is close to 1 then I would find a time, if not then not. Cannot be any simpler. All I needed was your help in assessing that probability, and not a rant about luck (nobody really knows what luck is - i.e. what it depends on).
Big thank you to those of you who helped me. :T

I think the problem the people on here have in answering your question Flobber, is (as I think DS has already said) we don't have the full statistics at our finger tips.

As I am sure you appreciate, to properly calculate the probability of winning you'd need the figures of how many people in total (as opposed to merely the number of people through here) enter each competition, though naturally I am sure there is so much fluctuation in this figure alone calculating would be tricky. To ask people on this forum will only give you an incredibly vague representation of the likelihood of winning, as there are other forums that offer the answers every day & therefore we don't even know what sort of a proportion of pigsback's members are even represented here.

To give you the info you seem to want from each of us though, I have regularly been taking part in the daily contests since December & have won once. Hope you manage to work out what you wanted.


P.S Thanks to all who share the answers & competitions they have found on Pigsback, I know the likelihood of me winning is incredibly slim but it is the taking part I enjoy.

snackatack2000

my attitude is you have to be in it to win it, ive been with pigsback since dec 2006 and have had £30 in vouchers and won 1 comp, if i didnt enter i wouldnt have won at all..its the excitement of seeing your name there and/or seeing the points in your piggybank that i enter for...and if i lose (as i do most days) then all its taken is 5 mins of my time to enter and nothing else...

jennalicious

I've checked the first page and there is a new question for this comp.

Check out our Charity Zone for a chance to win one of five pink iPod Shuffles!
http://www.pigsback.com/offers/341725647/default.asp
In the charity zone, what colour is Curly’s collection tin?
Answer: Green

My daughter just checked and she had answered this one but I hadn't, I guess I must have missed it at some point.

Erinath

I've just nominated Jules' second post in this thread for post of the month - really appreciate all the hard work she puts into looking after us little piggies. Thanks Jules.

snackatack2000

can someone tell me how to nominate a post please....thanks