My son won an Ipad Mini at a small community festival by completing a scavenger hunt. He was 3 years old, lol.
I think the most strange thing I've won was not really an item.. We had a "casino night" at the university I attended, but there was no money. They had given each person attending a certain number of chips, and at the end of the night you were supposed to use your winnings (or losings) to buy raffle tickets.
Well it was pretty boring, and me and a couple of friends decided to get out of there but we still had a lot of chips left so on the way out we passed something like an upright roulette wheel. We figured we'd throw all our chips on the spot that gave the most payout, but was very rare to land on. It was the smallest wedge and there was no partial payout for landing on something else nearby. It also paid out 50 to 1. The lady staffing the game spun the wheel and of course it landed on it (would I be telling this story otherwise?). We were laughing because we were trying to get rid of our chips and ended up getting more. A lot more.
Well we still wanted to leave.. we were bored, we didn't want MORE chips to try to get rid of.. so we did it again. She spun the wheel, and we burst out laughing as it starting slowing, getting closer and closer to the smallest wedge on the wheel. Again it stopped on it, and we now had not 50 times what we started with, but 50 times more than that. We considered doing it again, but we saw a guy we knew and figured it would be better to give it to him.
As for why we didn't just put in for the prizes, they were all fairly lame prizes, or nothing we really wanted. We were hoping for some big prizes, but there was just a lot of smaller ones and we just wanted to get out of there rather than fill out a bunch of raffle tickets.
My son won an Ipad Mini at a small community festival by completing a scavenger hunt. He was 3 years old, lol.
I think the most strange thing I've won was not really an item.. We had a "casino night" at the university I attended, but there was no money. They had given each person attending a certain number of chips, and at the end of the night you were supposed to use your winnings (or losings) to buy raffle tickets.
Well it was pretty boring, and me and a couple of friends decided to get out of there but we still had a lot of chips left so on the way out we passed something like an upright roulette wheel. We figured we'd throw all our chips on the spot that gave the most payout, but was very rare to land on. It was the smallest wedge and there was no partial payout for landing on something else nearby. It also paid out 50 to 1. The lady staffing the game spun the wheel and of course it landed on it (would I be telling this story otherwise?). We were laughing because we were trying to get rid of our chips and ended up getting more. A lot more.
Well we still wanted to leave.. we were bored, we didn't want MORE chips to try to get rid of.. so we did it again. She spun the wheel, and we burst out laughing as it starting slowing, getting closer and closer to the smallest wedge on the wheel. Again it stopped on it, and we now had not 50 times what we started with, but 50 times more than that. We considered doing it again, but we saw a guy we knew and figured it would be better to give it to him.
As for why we didn't just put in for the prizes, they were all fairly lame prizes, or nothing we really wanted. We were hoping for some big prizes, but there was just a lot of smaller ones and we just wanted to get out of there rather than fill out a bunch of raffle tickets.