Jumbo Cactpot working ad intended?

[Garlyle]

As for why numbers can't be matched in any order is pretty obvious, the odds of 1 in 10000 are already very good by lottery standards and matching numbers in any order would just increase the odds substantially that people would be winning left, right and center and multiple times a year. this is what the mini cactpot is for.

More specifically it's that every individual digit in the Jumbo Cactpot is its own separate entity. If this were, say, "Pick four different numbers between 1 and 10", then matching the numbers in any order would be sensible. But as "1 1 1 1" is a valid ticket this obviously is ridiculous.

Also it's amazing how fired up some people are over this.

[Niwashi]

You get to pick a single 4 digit number to match, a single 3 digit number to match, a single 2 digit number to match and a single 1 digit number to match. If the match could come from anywhere, there would be a lot more different combinations that would match in various different ways, making it far more confusing. It's simpler if they pick a specific section of the card that applies for determining each of the different prizes.

The fact that they happened to pick the rightmost digits rather than the leftmost digits is rather arbitrary, but it was going to be equally arbitrary either way, so I don't really see why anyone would care which sections they went with.

[Alexiell]

i was off by only one number last week. i dont remember exactly what it was, something like 5931 and i had 5961. sooo close and yet i got only 1k mgp. but thats the rules. if they want the chances to be that low, then thats how it is.
actually its fair, the prices are proportional to the inverse of the winning chances

[Welsper59]

More specifically it's that every individual digit in the Jumbo Cactpot is its own separate entity. If this were, say, "Pick four different numbers between 1 and 10", then matching the numbers in any order would be sensible. But as "1 1 1 1" is a valid ticket this obviously is ridiculous.

Also it's amazing how fired up some people are over this.

You know, in reality though, that's almost as easy to win as the mini cactpot if that were the case, since it's bound to that rule as well. And as we all know, while it's possible you may not have had a chance to win the 10k, many people have lol. I've been doing it every day and already won 3/3 of the cards that had 10k on it. Some folks have won way more than that. And with how many people there are participating in it across all servers, you'll see A LOT of winners over time, even if you or I may never be one.

[SarcasmMisser]

It's ordered so it remains a 1/10000 chance, it is meant to be a 1/10000 chance to win and if you seriously think this is unfair I don't think you understand how a real world lottery works.

[RobinRethiel]

A real lottery work that way: It takes your money.