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At 20:38 11/29/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >Have to be _very_ careful here. A variety of scams can be developed which >show lots of "small" winners, but which fail to show any large winners. The >lottery operators can make a lot of extra bucks by simply not paying off >the large winnings, in various ways. With complete anonimity, the scam I would think of first is giving other nyms of myself all the big payoffs. Bill
In article <199511300621.WAA26406@netcom14.netcom.com>, Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> wrote: >At 20:38 11/29/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote: >>Have to be _very_ careful here. A variety of scams can be developed which >>show lots of "small" winners, but which fail to show any large winners. The >>lottery operators can make a lot of extra bucks by simply not paying off >>the large winnings, in various ways. > >With complete anonimity, the scam I would think of first is giving other >nyms of myself all the big payoffs. > But with complete anonymity, no player knows who else is playing, let alone who won. So if you were going to pay off yourself, you may as well just pay off no one. The idea behind my proposal was that any participant can determine if he has won. The winning number (a hash of which was published beforehand, as in a "bit commitment" scheme) is announced. Anyone who picked a number that, say, matched in the last digit, wins $2. If you matched the last two digits, you win $10, etc. The house (without sacrificing reputation) can't arrange who the big payoffs will go to, nor can it (as I think Tim suggested) give out lots of small prizes and no big ones. - Ian
'small' questions about inet gambling + How do you complain that you didn't got your win without revealing your ID ? + Alternatively, How do you prevent false complains or nasty concurrent trying to trash gambling co reputation ? regards ps: it would be easier that the game is legal so ppl can play without being hidden... In my current casino, most people do complain when there is a problem, and I think that those who don't aren't because its monopoly money or just they aren't paying much attention... dl -- Laurent Demailly * http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/ * Linux|PGP|Gnu|Tcl|... Freedom Prime#1: cent cinq mille cent cinq milliards cent cinq mille cent soixante sept jihad Ortega Qaddafi Legion of Doom South Africa KGB Uzi