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Here's a way to sell a house.
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OK, I'll buy 1999 tickets.
Numbers 1 to 1000 first, then 2 to 1000. My ticket number 1 is the last man standing, and I get the house for £59,970.
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You'd need 6000 entries at £30 each to achieve £180k. Don't think you'd get anywhere near that number.0
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What a stupid thread0
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Guy_Montag wrote: »So you can't buy all 1000 numbers?
No. One number per person. Don't be greedy.0 -
he doesn't say that the raffle ends when all numbers are sold though, he probably meant to but it's ill thought out so probably they forgot
The lottery ends when there is one person with the last number to only have one person choosing it. That's implicit in the first post.
I'm confident that what I wrote at the top is not ill thought out. If you think so, or if you think it's just a "stupid thread", I think you haven't got it yet.0 -
So every person has a unique number. So everyone wins!We all evolve - get on with it0
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Guy_Montag wrote: »If you're the first person to buy all thousand, you're also going to buy the "last" unbought one, in that 1000. Therefore I win. Can I have my house please Mr. Hemmings NOW!!
No, because all other 999 numbers would still have been claimed by only one person, so you wouldn't be the "last person who has a number all to themselves".
Though, I suspect that you've got the basic idea, but you haven't expressed it clearly yet.0 -
Sorry for the stream of posts, but I want to say this to hurry things along before all interest is lost.
There's a deliberate lie in my original post. It wouldn't be too difficult to say what the lie is, but can anyone explain exactly why it is a lie?0 -
ok
So me and my mates buy the tickets. My two pals each buy number 1 - 999 and I buy number 1000. So I get the house for £30. They have spent £59940, so for less than £60k we have now got a £180k house. Obvioulsy to get round your rule of only one ticket per person we would have to be very clever or in a big consortium, but the seller of the house would be down £120000We all evolve - get on with it0
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