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What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

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Twitch Boy said:
It can't be that someone didn't do the research when they chose that name. It's that they did the research - AND CHOSE IT ANYWAY.
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In that case, I want to meet those people. :cool:

Somewhere there has to be this for real.
 
joecct said:
The malfunction was that the machine paid out in the first place. And to a minority!!! Horrors!!

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Isn't this a contract? You feed money to the machine with the slim chance of winning a sh*tload of money. I wonder how "offer + acceptance + consideration" works in this situation. The classic example I remember from B school is the guy who hits a hole-in-one at the local course, and the hole had a sign that if you hit an ace, you win a car - no expiration date. So the guy thinks he's won, but the dealership who made the offer says the offer expired last week, they just hadn't pulled the sign yet.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Isn't this a contract? You feed money to the machine with the slim chance of winning a sh*tload of money. I wonder how "offer + acceptance + consideration" works in this situation. The classic example I remember from B school is the guy who hits a hole-in-one at the local course, and the hole had a sign that if you hit an ace, you win a car - no expiration date. So the guy thinks he's won, but the dealership who made the offer says the offer expired last week, they just hadn't pulled the sign yet.
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That sounds like the restaurant that had a verbally announced contest with its servers/staff. It was something along the lines of whoever sold X dishes/t-shirts/whatever won a brand new "Toy"...[mumbles]...."ota!" So everyone thought it was a Toyota, but when the one woman hit the sales mark, they handed her a toy Yoda. She sued the restaurant, won her case, followed by some legal ramblings, including an appeal, and the restaurant finally bought her the cheapest Yaris they could find.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Isn't this a contract? You feed money to the machine with the slim chance of winning a sh*tload of money. I wonder how "offer + acceptance + consideration" works in this situation. The classic example I remember from B school is the guy who hits a hole-in-one at the local course, and the hole had a sign that if you hit an ace, you win a car - no expiration date. So the guy thinks he's won, but the dealership who made the offer says the offer expired last week, they just hadn't pulled the sign yet.
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Reading the article, she won $42 million when the max payout for the machine was $6500. So, the casino is right that it malfunctioned. They should give her the $6500 though.
 
Re: What the Fark 3: The Strange and Unusual

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Isn't this a contract? You feed money to the machine with the slim chance of winning a sh*tload of money. I wonder how "offer + acceptance + consideration" works in this situation. The classic example I remember from B school is the guy who hits a hole-in-one at the local course, and the hole had a sign that if you hit an ace, you win a car - no expiration date. So the guy thinks he's won, but the dealership who made the offer says the offer expired last week, they just hadn't pulled the sign yet.
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All slot machines say a machine malfunction voids the payout, and there are very few machines which pay anything close to $42 million for a jackpot; most have a jackpot of about 1,000 to 10,000 times the bet (which may be increased by multiple lines being played at once). Even progressive jackpots rarely get higher than the low six figures except for those that start at $1,000,000 - and those almost always pay off before they rise to $2,000,000.

Unless she was playing something like a $10 machine in the high roller area, she should've known it was a malfunction.
 
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