The AMAZING Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery (TAABL)

[nelisky]

In reaction to the current value of Bitcoins, we have changed the bet amounts on BTC BitPicks to one tenth of what they were before, so single bets are now:

BitPick 2 - BTC 0.05
BitPick 3 - BTC 0.01
BitPick 4 - BTC 0.01
BitPick 5 - will be BTC 0.01 too, but since there is are bets already placed in the running game the change will happen after a winner is found

The same 1/10 rule will be applied to LTC BitPicks, but only BitPick 2 was changed so far to LTC 5.0 per bet, others will be altered as the active games come to completion.

TRC BitPicks remain unaltered.

Good luck!

[Financisto]

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.

I'm also having some hard time in order to understand this game.

I'm unable to figure it out what the odds involved in this game are.

BTW would you mind creating one more column in order to add the odds for each PICK? (And one else adding the players already in).

Or, at least, that kind of info might be included in the "how to play" section...

[TTBit]

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.

I'm also having some hard time in order to understand this game.

I'm unable to figure it out what the odds involved in this game are.

BTW would you mind creating one more column in order to add the odds for each PICK? (And one else adding the players already in).

Or, at least, that kind of info might be included in the "how to play" section...

The odds are dependent on how many others are playing, it is the same as a raffle.  The selection numbers are the last digits of the block hash, for example "4d783" in this block: http://blockchain.info/block-height/237472

The odds of any winner in a pick 3 is 1 in 16^3, or 1 in 4096. If you hold 1 ticket and 19 others are holding 1 ticket, you have a 1 in 20 chance of winning (eventually). Of note, it doesn't matter when you join a game, as you have to hold the ticket number when it hits - meaning you can't have the prior block be 12345 and then you select ticket #12345.

[Financisto]

Thank you for the explanation.

But I guess it's not so +EV in order to get in... 

[BitCoiner2012]

Who won that Litecoin Pick 5...? What's the address? Where can I find a blockchain style proof of payment?

[nelisky]

Who won that Litecoin Pick 5...? What's the address? Where can I find a blockchain style proof of payment?

http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/480c68c3b4eba98813c90cd709213194c225c2dd783951e8017dd73b772efa27

If you click on paytx hash you'll get the above link. Click on the Pick 5 link to see which number and tx won; http://taabl.net/pick?_=511d0f2e4d8b2045fb0a8cb9

[BitCoiner2012]

Who won that Litecoin Pick 5...? What's the address? Where can I find a blockchain style proof of payment?

http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/480c68c3b4eba98813c90cd709213194c225c2dd783951e8017dd73b772efa27

If you click on paytx hash you'll get the above link. Click on the Pick 5 link to see which number and tx won; http://taabl.net/pick?_=511d0f2e4d8b2045fb0a8cb9

What does it mean by "not yet redeemed"?

Also, I could never find that link from TAABL. It takes you to Blockchain.

[nelisky]

Who won that Litecoin Pick 5...? What's the address? Where can I find a blockchain style proof of payment?

http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/480c68c3b4eba98813c90cd709213194c225c2dd783951e8017dd73b772efa27

If you click on paytx hash you'll get the above link. Click on the Pick 5 link to see which number and tx won; http://taabl.net/pick?_=511d0f2e4d8b2045fb0a8cb9

What does it mean by "not yet redeemed"?

Also, I could never find that link from TAABL. It takes you to Blockchain.

"not yet redeemed" means just that; the funds are on that address and haven't been moved.

What do you mean it takes you to Blockchain? If you look in "previous games" on the main page you'll get the link I posted. Have I placed the wrong link somewhere else?

[BitCoiner2012]

Who won that Litecoin Pick 5...? What's the address? Where can I find a blockchain style proof of payment?

http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/480c68c3b4eba98813c90cd709213194c225c2dd783951e8017dd73b772efa27

If you click on paytx hash you'll get the above link. Click on the Pick 5 link to see which number and tx won; http://taabl.net/pick?_=511d0f2e4d8b2045fb0a8cb9

What does it mean by "not yet redeemed"?

Also, I could never find that link from TAABL. It takes you to Blockchain.

"not yet redeemed" means just that; the funds are on that address and haven't been moved.

What do you mean it takes you to Blockchain? If you look in "previous games" on the main page you'll get the link I posted. Have I placed the wrong link somewhere else?

Okay, so that just means the money has yet to be moved? I'm just concerned, because I pumped a ton of LTC into it, and I am wondering if somehow I sent it from more than one address, which is not unusual...  Is there any way to discern where the address is from (waht kind of wallet) based on the first few characters?

Further, could there ever be complications about sending the winnings to an address of an exchange? I had something similar when coinotron sent me 430 TRC to Vircurex and it never applied.... ever.

[BitCoiner2012]

Are you also telling me that every other payout:
http://explorer.litecoin.net/tx/480c68c3b4eba98813c90cd709213194c225c2dd783951e8017dd73b772efa27#o14

Was also not redeemed? So no one is moving any coins.......

[nelisky]

And 3 weeks shy of 2 years running, we have a winner for the BTC Pick 5 game! Congratulations to the owner of 1NLGxRunq5MYR5YWQycRJKConHcpaBrUvk  who made 2.277 BTC out of the 0.1 bet made 16 months ago... I really hope the wallet still exists!

There was a little trouble getting this one paid out as I haven't made any updates to TAABL or DiceOnCrack in quite a while and TAABL particularly was trying to send "signal" transactions to all betting addresses, in values of 1 to 5 satoshis each, which is now called dust and can't be propagated. This means that no signals are going out anymore, of course. It also means that I'll be doing some much needed updating to these sites if there is any interest in using them which, by the looks of it, there isn't

If you enjoyed playing these games before or want to try them now, let us know!

For those that haven't been around for that long, TAABL was one of the first bitcoin games to come to live and certainly the first automated bitcoin lottery. Of course many things have changed along the way and are bound to change more still, but it is a bit of bitcoin history nonetheless...