Hooo boy. Here we go again.
KZMG/Magic 93.1 is running a contest it calls “Listen, win, move in.” 300 folks will get a chance to roll a set of dice. Contestants will have to roll all six of the dice at once - and to win, the dice must spell “H-U-B-B-L-E.”
If someone rolls that lucky combo, they get a $200k home, a Dodge truck and $25,000 in cash.
Odds? 1 in 46,656, according to the rules. I haven’t done the math myself… any math majors out there want to check the figures?
on Jun 4th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I think contests like this suck. Yes, the tantalizing prospect of a Big Prize excites people. When no one wins, though (which is almost certain), it kind of lets the air out of the balloon, so to speak.
You build up a lot of excitement and then there’s no payoff.
I think stations are better served by contests which have a lot of smaller prizes which get spread around among the listeners. If nothing else, at least you can get audio of winners that way.
on Jun 4th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Speaking of odds….if memory serves me right the odds of hitting a hole in one are something like one in 30-something thousand…. I will take those odds any day over the Powerball’s one in 160 MILLION.
on Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:11 am
From what I do remember from my college statistics class, your number for the odds is correct …..
on Jun 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Didn’t Mix do a similar contest to this where they gave away a chance to win a house, and the odds were about 9999 to 1. I also seem to remember the people yelling a complaining about this contest the most were Citadel posters….i guess the worm has turned
on Jun 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
The listeners would be better served if they were told that the house was stolen with the truck in the garage and the $25K in cash was in a brown paper bag on the front seat. If the house if spotted, people should call the Ada County Sheriff’s Dispatch.
on Jun 5th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
no kidding….if your going to copy a promotion, why not copy a good one….one that works.
by the way, where the hell are you going to find a $200,000 Hubble home. Is that counting the car in the garage and the $25k in the closet, because then maybe you might be able to stretch the value….or did they put the house on 10 acres of land?