Magic 93.1 probably not giving away a house
Don Day | June 3, 2008Hooo 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?
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.
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.
From what I do remember from my college statistics class, your number for the odds is correct …..
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
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.
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?