Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
If they are set to the point where the average entrant has almost no chance of winning, then I would call that "rigged".
Let's say I told you to make a trip across the country for an amazing opportunity to be one of 4 people to win $1 million from me in a random drawing.
Then let's say you travel 3000 miles for this, and I give you one entry. Then I give my father 1 million entries, my brother 1 billion entries, and my son 1 trillion entries.
This would still technically be a random drawing, and you would still have a 1 in 1,001,001,000,000 chance of winning my million dollars.
However, my son would win 99.9% of the time, and the rest of the time would be won by my father or brother. Your chance would be so small that it might as well be considered zero.
This is, of course, an extreme example, but it's an illustration of my frustration when taking part in these big drawings.