Matt wrote:
After completing the Lenny Conundrum, working it out by myself, and submitting the answer "125 metres" I didn't get the prize, however, I needed to input "125"!! Why should inputting a measurement make your answer incorrect! This is ridiculous...
That's impossible. The program that reads all of the answers simply matches the correct answer with the responses given. So if you typed "I think it's 250" or "The answer is 250" or "250 meters" and it was told to look for 250, it would count all of those as correct. I've won several times on other accounts and never had the same wording as TNT has in their answer.
Making it random isn't just "unfair" it's plain crazy. Think about it this way, once someone knows the answer, basically everyone knows it so the 3 hour old newbie who ran across the answer on the chat boards has an equal chance in winning it as you, who spent a long time working on it. It's also statistically much worse for you. You have a much higher chance percentage to be online and get the answer when it's released, then you do being randomly selected from a million people who submit it over the entire week the game is left up. You could limit it, however, by making it only a day, or only accepting the first 1,000 people to be part of the pot, but then you've only introduced more limitations which make your chances even worse. Basically, it's as much a game of chance as it is intelligence because you have to be online when it's released, be one of the first to figure it out, submit your score, and gotten the right answer. You've got less odds against you in Vegas
~Maria