The AMAZING Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery (TAABL)

[andrew12]

What is the reasoning behind showing every single possible bet on the page for each pick rather than just ones that have been submitted? This makes them incredibly hard to read, and just seems completely unnecessary. If it was toggleable then I'd be satisfied.

[TTBit]

What is the reasoning behind showing every single possible bet on the page for each pick rather than just ones that have been submitted? This makes them incredibly hard to read, and just seems completely unnecessary. If it was toggleable then I'd be satisfied.

Notice that we don't display every possible value (there are no blank rows). We have worked with different ways to make it more visually appealing than just dumping all data. With your request, however, we will work on a toggle feature. Thanks for the input!

[nelisky]

What is the reasoning behind showing every single possible bet on the page for each pick rather than just ones that have been submitted? This makes them incredibly hard to read, and just seems completely unnecessary. If it was toggleable then I'd be satisfied.

We have added detailed/resumed views to the Pick pages, you can find the toggle below the numbers table. Whatever you choose will be used thereafter, assuming you have cookies enabled. Do let us know if it improves your experience.

Thanks for the feedback!

[BitCoiner2012]

What is the reasoning behind showing every single possible bet on the page for each pick rather than just ones that have been submitted? This makes them incredibly hard to read, and just seems completely unnecessary. If it was toggleable then I'd be satisfied.

We have added detailed/resumed views to the Pick pages, you can find the toggle below the numbers table. Whatever you choose will be used thereafter, assuming you have cookies enabled. Do let us know if it improves your experience.

Thanks for the feedback!

Love it already. I like both options being available.

[andrew12]

Notice that we don't display every possible value (there are no blank rows).

I actually didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out.

We have worked with different ways to make it more visually appealing than just dumping all data. With your request, however, we will work on a toggle feature. Thanks for the input!

And it looks like it's been implemented. Awesome! Now to see if I can come up with some BTC to play with this with.
I remember the original TAABL, it was pretty entertaining to use... wonder if I had any balance left on my old account.

[TTBit]

We will be moving DiceOnCrack and TAABL across servers today, so there might me a few short downtimes as DNS records get updated. You can safely continue using them as there is no expected downtime on the blockchain

[nelisky]

It has happened a few times, and just now once more, that the Pick 2 hits a match with a single bet on it, which is fine when that bet is from TAABL's own seeding but otherwise means a bet will pay 99% of itself.

My immediate plan to avoid this is to set a minimum number of bets before the Pick becomes active. How does 5 bets minimum sound? And is there any reason for me not to do this on all Picks?

[nelisky]

TTBit proposed a slightly different approach to the problem raised on my last post; from now on Picks will not find winners until there are at least two transactions and that is now denoted in the 'how to play' page.

Of course if the same person sends two transactions and wins, that person will still end up with 1% loss from the house fee.

[TTBit]

The first Pick 5 was just hit, winner received 23.76 BTC Congrats!

[nelisky]

We're having a great run with the Pick5 pot over 55 BTC now and a slightly more modest yet still great Pick4 pot of over 16BTC now! Don't miss your chance.

Also there's a Pipe Pick running for $10 iTunes gift cards that received no love up to this point -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135209.0

Good luck!

[nelisky]

Time for a few stats:

The Pick 2 is our fastest paced raffle, almost always hitting in less than a day, which leaves little time for people to place wagers. There were a couple of cases where a single bet would be matched, leaving the winner with a negative outcome due to the house fee, but that has since been resolved by preventing the pick to actively match a result until there have been at least 2 transactions received for wagering.

Pick 2 is also the one that moved more coins to date. It is 5 times more expensive per bet to make it interesting in terms of total value despite the fact it is very quickly matched.

There was a common misconception that the choice 00 was a more common winning bet than others, which while being correct is also a bit misleading. The 00 choice hit 15 times, 3 times as much as the next most common match, 2D. Why was it the most common? Simple, every time a new pick was spawned the first bet (that didn't carry any satoshi configured number preference) would always be 00, so that number was simply in every Pick.

Some numbers, for games started between the 15th of November of 2012 and today, that have been concluded:

Total number of completed Pick 2's: 87
Sum total of pots distributed: BTC 311.850

Longest run:  3 days, 6 hours and 17 minutes
Shortest run: 44 minutes
Average run: 16 hours, 10 minutes

Largest pot:   BTC 8.415
Smallest pot: BTC 0.990
Average pot:  BTC 3.585

All choices that had where matched more than one time:

00: 15
2D: 5
7C: 2
CD: 2
C8: 2
A2: 2
94: 2

Good luck!

[TTBit]

Pick 4 just hit for 37.32300000 BTC to lucky ticket #21d8

The pick 5, when hit, will be the largest TAABL lottery, currently 60.1920 BTC. Join anytime for 0.10 BTC

Congrats to the Lucky winner!

[nelisky]

Some more stats, this time around for the Pick 3.

Total number of completed Pick 3's: 40
Sum total of pots distributed: BTC 133.254

Longest run:  8 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes
Shortest run: 1 hour and 51 minutes
Average run: 1 day, 9 hours, 21 minutes

Largest pot:   BTC 8.613
Smallest pot: BTC 0.792
Average pot:  BTC 3.331

There were no choices being hit more than once so far.

[nelisky]

Time for Pick 4 stats;

Total number of completed Pick 4's: 6
Sum total of pots distributed: BTC 111.573

Longest run:  19 days, 13 hours and 20 minutes
Shortest run: 3 days, 16 hours and 5 minutes
Average run: 9 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes

Largest pot:   BTC 37.323
Smallest pot: BTC 5.049
Average pot:  BTC 18.596

There were no choices being hit more than once so far.

[TTBit]

Bumping for interest:

Pick 5 has creeped up to ~75 BTC, and will be our largest lottery when hit. Join anytime for 99% payback by sending 0.10 BTC or multiples of 0.10 BTC to 15TaABLmhxiRQ9DTX6ZcZ9S9RknVZmP5jX, details on taabl.net

[TTBit]

Bump for service announcement that TAABL has included LTC and TRC.

Good Luck!

[nelisky]

We have just doubled the seeding on all TAABL.net LTC BitPicks. You can win a bundle for as low as 10 LTC 

[nelisky]

We have had both a Pick 2 and a Pick 3 won on the LTC games in the past couple of days. Congratulations to the winners!

[qrs]

I don't understand how to play 

[nelisky]

I don't understand how to play 

I have to apologize for the lack of information. Assuming you already went through http://taabl.net/howtoplay let me tell you that playing is much MUCH simpler than understanding the how to

- Elect your game(s), from Pick 2 to Pick 5 (the number after the Pick is the number of characters that will be matched, the larger this number the less likely it is to match with the next block).
- Place your bet(s) - careful not to use web wallets where you don't control the addresses and private keys, as the wins will be paid back to the address you sent from.
- After two confirmations the bet is added to the Pick, you can see which is yours by looking for your payment transaction hash.
- When the pick matches, a winner is found. The winner gets the pot, all others get a few satoshis (same number as the Pick) to signal the pick has ended.

I'll be glad to go into detail on any part of the workflow, just let me know what your exact questions are.