ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY?
The million dollar question has already come to mind hasn't it? What is Lucky up to now? Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to lay it on you and break it down bit by bit. As a good many of you know, I am very heavily involved in seeing positive trends and growth within the Steemit community, from my work with the Steemit Greeters Guild to my various sideline activities that are aimed at seeing others grow and succeed. Lately, I've been at a dead end, contemplating ways I can fund some of my charitable operations without going out and virtually panhandling on the Steemit platform. I thought to myself, what is something that I know can raise funding, all the while offering the opportunity for others to prosper on numerous levels? It dawned on me......a Steemit based lottery in which all proceeds are donated to charitable operations within the community that promote positive growth and help build many great authors from darkness to the spotlight. So the idea was born....
WHAT IS THE LUCKY LOTTO QUICK TRIPLE PICK?
The Lucky Lotto Quick Triple Pick is a daily lottery game hosted by yours truly, Lucky, or @terminallyill as I am known on Steemit. It is modeled from the United States Lottery game the Pick Three, in which an individual picks three numbers of their choice and that is counted as their entry into the lottery. The host of the lottery then randomly selects three numbers from 0-9 and any participant who picked the matching numbers wins a great prize, typically a substantial chunk of money compared to their investment into the game itself. In essence, this is the exact same thing I will be doing, of course in my own way and with a much deeper meaning, all explained below. So why did I choose to do this?
It's actually rather intriguing if you take the opportunity to really assess what I am doing here. I founded this game with the sole purpose of providing financial donations to several charitable organizations on the Steemit platform that promote positive growth within the community. The idea behind this is that every single person who plays this game is themselves not only entering this lottery for a chance to win a nice chunk of SBD, but they are also inadvertently donating to a charitable cause in the process. Not a single fraction of an SBD or Steem will be kept and used for anything other than seeing the community thrive on this platform, that is my word and on my honor. I myself am even coming out of pocket to foot the initial prize pools every single day until this game picks up in popularity and can become self sufficient. Enough of the tech specs though, let's get down to business.
For the staggering and back breaking cost of 0.05 SBD, you can purchase one single entry into a daily drawing. This is literally a nickle, so it is not an incredible investment, especially for the prize that you can win if you strike the lucky series of numbers. You can buy as many entries as you would like, so do not feel like you are limited to purchasing just one single entry. Basically, if you chose to play, you will need to send me a transfer from your Steemit wallet of 0.05 SBD and in the memo write your three digit entry (i/e 936). This will be your "ticket", forever recorded in the Steemit blockchain and easily able to be kept up with. If you choose to play more than one set of numbers, simply make another transfer with the numbers in the memo. This will avoid any confusion as well as leave no room for error on either party. Keep it clean and simple my friends. So what can you win?
The minimum prize pool for every daily drawing will be a minimal of 5 SBD, sponsored by yours truly. The idea here is to get the game into a full swing as to where it far surpasses this number, making the prize pool even larger for anyone who may find themselves lucky enough to claim the prize. Every entry adds up in the prize pool and a substantial portion carries over to the next round if no winning ticket claims the prize. In example, say today we have 100 entries, totaling 5 SBD but nobody picked the winning numbers. 50% of the paid entries, 2.5 SBD, will carry on to the following day making the prize pool for the next day 7.5 SBD (remember, I'm guaranteeing a min 5 SBD jackpot). The remaining 50% will be promptly donated to one of a handful of community initiatives and actions within the Steemit community. As of now I have not set a cap, or limit to how high the jackpot can climb, so let's see how this works out. The important and key thing here is that every single portion not allotted to the jackpot is going directly towards seeing a brighter future for this platform!
This lottery will be a daily event, seven days a week, 365 days a year. No holidays, no breaks, no gimmicks. Every single day at 9PM EST I will randomly select the winning numbers and post them as quickly as possible, as to not have folks anxiously waiting. This means that every single day you can enter to win, just as long as your entry gets to me by 8:59 PM Eastern Standard Time. If your entry comes in past the 9:00 PM mark, your entry will still be valid, just for the following day. As of now there will be just this one drawing per day, however, as this game grows in popularity I may amend the original rule set to include additional drawings. That is far down the road however. For now, just remember the numbers are drawn at 9:00 PM every single day and will be announced immediately after.
Not a single penny of this money is going to go towards anything other than supporting and building this community for the better, helping develop a brighter future for the lower ranks of the Steemit platform. Proceeds will be donated to initiatives and organizations across the platform that are actively helping build not only the community, but the lives of those they reach out to. Some organizations I will be supporting include but are not limited to the Steemit Greeters Guild, Newbie Resteem Day and Earth Nation. There are several other charitable groups that I have in mind as well as several events this game will help host and fund. With your support in growing this, we will see amazing things happen within the community.
SO HOW DO YOU WIN?
It is incredibly easy to follow along with this game. You pick three numbers from 0-9 in order. In example 456. The host then draws three numbers randomly as the winning numbers. If the host draws 456 as the winning numbers, you won the jackpot prize! If the FIRST TWO numbers of your ticket match the winning numbers, you win 0.5 SBD! That's right, you can win even when you don't hit the big jackpot! In the event that more than one person wins the jackpot, it will be divided proportionately among all winners.
RULE 1 - SEND 0.05 SBD TO @TERMINALLYILL PER ENTRY. INCLUDE YOUR THREE DIGIT PICK IN THE MEMO.
RULE 2 - SEND EVERY ENTRY AS A SEPARATE TRANSFER FOR BOTH OF OUR RECORDS.
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It's great to have you on board brother! Good luck and thank you for supporting this initiative!
sending my nickel and numbers over shortly ;-)
I cannot thank you enough for all of your support @amariespeaks! Good luck :)
How have things been going lately?
check this out @terminallyill... if you are nice to @amarispeaks, she might be able to animate your logo like this ;)
you're welcome! love what you're doing :) things are going good - busy but that's never a bad thing! how about you?
As always @amariespeaks, thank you for your support with my works within the community! You are a great friend and mentor, not to mention an asset to the community! Busy is always good, beats the alternative of doing absolutely nothing in life ;)
I am actually doing much better now. I had hit a rough patch, but I am back on my horse, full speed ahead as usual for me LOL. Thank you for asking!
Your animation and graphic work is amazing to say the absolute least! @davemccoy she has certainly done you guys a tremendous service. SGG could only be so lucky as to have her talents used for our logos and such. Great work @amariespeaks, everything I have seen thus far has been great!
thank you @terminallyill I'd be more than willing to remix a SGG logo as a tester to see if you all like it? I'm going giphy/logo crazy at the moment and I can use all the practice I can get ;-) just an offer! lol
Absolutely @amariespeaks, if you have the time to put forth to work on any SGG material, I as well as the guild would be grateful. I'm thinking of the possibility of adopting a second logo as well, if you may have any ideas for it?
I cannot thank you enough for working with me and SGG :) You rock!
you're welcome! I'll make some time for it today - I'll probably hit you up on discord to talk about design and stuff
That is awesome @amariespeaks! I cannot thank you enough!
sent my entry
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Cool initiative, @terminallyill.
I'll be back as @newbiegames later and resteem
Thank you @simplymike, it means a lot to have your support! Good luck!
You’re welcome. i’m sorry, in the end, I forgot to resteem using @newbiegames. It has been such a hectic day yesterday, with the pool party @pretty.dorky threw me, and the real-life birthday, and the appreciation contest that went through the roof. I promise I’ll make it right again.
I might get more tickets for the next drawing, make sure to win the pot and then donate the prize back to you, either to grow the pot, or to make sure you don’t have to put all your money into this ;0)
@simplymike I hope that you had a great birthday! I wanted to personally thank you for what you do on here, you are an amazing member of the community and a great person period. It's an honor to be in the same family as you and everyone else who is fighting day in and day out to make this platform the absolute best it can be.
I have decided to run the post daily, to keep people notified of winning numbers and keep it out in the public eye. If you can, please resteem today's post. Any kind of help you can offer, is beyond appreciated. Also, if I can aid you in anything, please do not hesitate to ask.
You makevme blush :0)
I’ve resteemed both from the @newbiegames account and through my personal account, hoping to get more possible contestant to see your game.
If everything goes like planned, I’ll be adding a new ‘Featured Post’ post to the @newbiegames account. I’ll be sure to use it to spread the message even more...
Thank you for everything :) I am running a post for this every day, so if you have a chance to repost it a few times, I would be incredibly grateful!
Seems like a great idea to me. Wish you well with this. Will enter as directed.
I really appreciate you supporting this initiative and joining in! Fingers crossed that it does well so it can help support some of the amazing projects in the community that help make this platform an amazing place :)
Good luck my friend!
Many blessings and I am sure I'll be seeing you around.
3 5 7 Love it Lucky! :)
Oooh, @davemccoy, you were so close...