Make a sacrifice and win $50,000 Lindens!

The City of Gold located in Stanford is proud to announce a $50,000 prize sacrifice to the gods!

To participate, simply visit the large Mayan pyramid temple in Stanford and take a FREE copy of the Sacrificial Bracelet located near the top of the outside of the pyramid. Attach the bracelet to your avatar to begin playing. Click the black box the bracelet rests on for a free copy of the Official Rules and Reguatlions. (A copy is included below).

Don't forget to tour the City of Gold while you stop by! Explore the pyramid and surrounding grounds and let us know what you think. The city is still largely under construction so drop by again soon to see the constant changes and updates!

Good Luck!

Thanks,

City of Gold Team

Rathe Underthorn
Yuki Sunshine
Arthur Money
Si Money

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HOW TO PLAY

Take a free copy of the sacrificial bracelet which can be found at the top of the large Mayan pyramid temple in the City of Gold located in Stanford. Attach the bracelet to your right hand (or adjust somewhere else more comfortable).

Once you are wearing the bracelet you may begin making sacrifices to the gods by touching the bracelet or saying '@sacrifice' (without the quotes). When you perform either one of these actions you will make a $100 sacrifice of gold to the gods. If it is your first time trying, you will be prompted to authorize payment debit for each sacrifice you perform. You must accept by clicking 'Yes' or you will not be able to perform any sacrifices.

If the gods should deem your sacrifice worthy by their powers that be you will be rewarded $50,000! If you do not appease them you will receive a message indicating the gods found your sacrifice unworthy and you may try again.

If you are so lucky to be blessed by the gods with $50,000 an IM will be sent to Rathe Underthorn along with an email to our database to verify your prize. Once we can authenticate the prize you will be paid $50,000, this process may take 24-48 hours (but most likely less.) You do not need to be online for the payment of this reward to take place and we will leave you an IM indicating that you have been paid the $50,000.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Rathe Underthorn, group members of Chaos Bringers, and group members of thirty4 interactive are not responsible for SL related bugs, crashes, or acts of God, gods, and/or Lindens. Rathe Underthorn, group members of Chaos Bringers, and group members of thirty4 interactive may NOT participate in this game.

This is a game of luck. We do not guarantee you will be a winner. Odds of winning are 1/1000. Play at your own risk. There will be NO refunds.

Prizes will be rewarded by Rathe Underthorn within 24-48 hours of winning after passing a prize authentication. Cheating will result in an automatic invalidation of prize claims. There MUST be a VALID payment per sacrifice by you to be eligible for prize claims.

Contest shall end upon a public notice on the Second Life forums by Rathe Underthorn. Sacrifices bought after this ending period shall be invalid for prize claims and eligible for refunds by request. In the unlikely event of bankruptcy due to legitimate prize claims all rezzed or claimed assets of Rathe Underthorn shall be unrezzed and/or released and the remaining cash balance minus a $3000.00 retainer shall be divided equally upon prize winning creditors in exchange for nullification of all withstanding debts.

just out of curosity (and to assure myself that it's random) did you script the bracelets so that it will choose a winner based on a 1/1000 chance that an e-mail will be sent? I'm just curious how you made it. If you can't tell me now, would you mind sharing once the contest is over?

Yes the basics of it is randomization of 1/1000th chance, so as long as the laws of mathematics don't suddenly turn to pudding you definatly have a chance of winning $50,000!

Of course theres a lot more to the script for security purposes and to prevent cheating. It also does a "credit check" before allowing someone to take a turn to verify that they indeed have the funds necessary to pay for that turn since there is no way to verify a payment succeeded through LSL from the paying objects perspective.

Then there's also the user interaction functions which I'll spare you the boring details of.

But all in all, it boils down to the laws of math and just pure luck. I will post on here the winner of every $50,000 prize (as we get them!)

Good luck!

Nicely done, and very thoroughly, Rathe! I'll have to go have a look at this when I'm inworld.

Thanks to a very talented and well known SL resident I have discovered a flaw in the permission settings I had on the original bracelet that would allow players to cheat. Since there were no official winners yet, all copies of this bracelet will no longer be valid and a new one will be rezzed in place tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Any future game plays made with the old one may be refunded. The new one will be made available tonight and contain a different internal version number to protect the integrity of the contest and only new entries will be valid for prize claims. If you are currently in possession of an old copy, I ask that you please delete it since it will no longer be of any use and to please pick up a new valid copy once available, thanks.

MWAHAHAHA

I almost got you didn't I?! You almost forked it over didn't you?!

No, you didn't. Well I coulda hacked it so you did, I see now. That credit check thing is easy to hack too ya know Rathe. You just take it out in a "no outside scripts" zone. Worked for me. But no worries, I'm not that evil...

BTW, I can still hack it cuz assuming your version is 1.1.... well I said too much, PM me and I'll tell you what I know

Taking it to "no outside scripts" won't do anything. You simply won't be able to play.

The new internal version will be a secret variable submitted with the email that you will not be able to guess or know so false entires would stick out like a sore thumb!

But thanks again for the pointers Darwin

Ah, damn.

Well actually what I was saying was that what I COULD have done but didn't because I'm not evil (yet) was take out that "Credit Checker" Object in a no outside scripts zone and edit it because without the script it can't die. That's what I was saying.

*Nod*. But that was the permissions problem, which won't work after I fix it! Thanks for finding the problem though and being a good citizen and not exploting it! Other than setting the permissions on the object itself incorrectly I'm confident it is secure and will resume the contest again tonight.

New bracelet is up! Luckily I think Darwin was the only one to get a copy of the bad one. So let the games begin! Tested and secure now.

Unfortunately SL won't let you buy it for $0 for some reason. So I have priced it at $1. If you wish to be redeemed the $1 purchase price, leave me an IM and I will send you $1 after you purchase a copy of the bracelet. Thanks!

HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO WIN $50,000L !

An interesting concept, but with the high possible payoff, relatively favorable odds, and immediate payoff schedule, the security of the payoff is somewhat a concern. With a lottery there is a time frame that must pass while tickets are sold and before a winner is declared. This ensures that there is money in the pot at time of payoff. But in this case, what is to keep the magical "1" to pop up on the "1D1000" on the second day?

Granted that this eventuality is provided for within the terms. But note that the qualifier for the out of money condition is "unlikely". It sounds to me like the sacrificer isn't the only one tossing the dice. You had better hope that there isn't an early win! In that case, you may find that the offering to the gods is no longer a cash offering! Best of luck to you. The next time around, consider awarding a fraction of the sacrificed money, delaying notification of payoff, or by finding someone with really deep pockets willing to cover yer tush.

(Incidentally, I dunno if you have 50,000 sitting around. If you do, then never mind - you're set!)

Might wanna check the Net Worth leaderboard, the payout money isn't a problem :}


Also, the payout isn't quite "instant", we still have to verify that you won (we get notified if a bracelet thinks it won).

Thanks for the great tips kohne. Would like you to know though that I wouldn't have started this contest without the insurance to cover prizes.

I have cash reserved specifically for the winner payouts of this contest. I also have a nice property investment portfolio that, as mentioned in the rules, would be sold to pay the winners if necessary.

There *will* be $50,000 prizes given out! Just a question of who and when, so good luck! We have already had several entires into the contest, no winners yet, but keep trying, we have $50,000 to give out!