Johnnydevil's blog: "Fu Education"

Hey kids. I know this is probably a hot button topic but when have we ever shyed away from those anyway? ...

There's been a lot of chatter lately about these Happy Hour raffles. And I, like many of you, noticed that the same people kept winning over and over again. But with the enhancements to the APP and PC versions of the raffle, allowing you to purchase 100 tickets with one click, it's kind of made it easier to put max Fubuck entries in at once instead of entering one ticket one hundred times. Because let's face it, not a lot of you did that. I didn't either because let's face it - I'm lazy sometimes. So the other day they wifey and I decided to try it out , entering 100 tickets for 100 million FUBUCKS option as shown below for a couple of days:

Neither of us won day one or two. Day three however she scored the Happy Hour shown below:

There were no credits used to purchase the winning Happy Hour raffle ticket. This is a first hand account. So it is indeed possible to win a Happy Hour using max FUBUCKS entires and no credits spent. I still haven't won (lol) but it's fun regardless and at that Fubuck price, why not right?

That brings us to the next tricky thing called math. In the beginning of the raffles, there were about 700-1,000 entries at any given time for any given slot. So if you actually took the time to hit that 100x, you had about a 1 in 7 to 1 in 10 chance of winning. Those kind of odds tend to lend themselves to people winning more often than not. And if they spent the 1 credit or however many for additional entries then their odds increased dramatically. But now, there are thousands of entries for happy hour slots on the regular. So if there are 3,000 entries per say, if you just use Fubucks you now have about a 1 in 30 chance of winning. The midnight and 8am slots will have considerably more entries because that's well, when people are awake.

Of course the credit entries change the dynamic if used but you run the risk of losing credits, so to each their own I guess.

Fubucks in large amounts are pretty easy to come by these days so the price itself shouldn't be THAT much of an issue if you want to win one the law of averages is on your side. It just might take awhile and well, none of us are very patient. So there's that.

I'm sure there will be some modifications and enhancements in the future for this just like everything else on Fu so stay tuned but I just figured I would share a first hand account for the record.

Thank you.

- JD