Lottery Website (kind of)

[admintwo]

I just thought of this and well when I think of things I usually lose them.

Going to make site ASAP or when I have time.

So I am going to post this. If the post is not allowed. Please Just delete it. ( Did not mean to do anything illegal or un-allowed).

Ok, do you think you have questions that people can't answer, or questions that people can answer but are difficult to get the correct answers?
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If I refer to MMW it means ( Money Making Website )
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Well this MMW of mine lets myself or others post questions for a very small fee.

The Questions are posted for a period of time and when someone
believes they have answer to it, they pay, or bid x amount of money that they will get it correct.

Many people will bid, and many will get the question incorrect.
Those that got the question correct, take some of the money that was put into the pot for example and then the person that posted the question gets x amount of it and the site owner (myself at the moment) gets the percentage left over.

It is kind of like a casino just that people are betting or paying to have a chance to answer a question.

Please post if your comments below. Hope you all like it by the way. Request more details if you want to, I will try to answer them when I get back.

 

[xmastermindx]

I'm not sure you can get a great payout on this idea.
First of all, Google has an excellent search feature which will allow people to cheat the system every single time and take the pot as soon as the question is presented.

 

[admintwo]

Lol, I don't believe google has the answers to questions I can present.

Want a sample question? I will give you one of my sample questions, the rules for posting a question is that the question has to have a legitimate answer.

Well here is my sample question. You might want to spend more then 15 minutes on it though.

Ok here it is.

George Washington (1st President of the USA) was headed to California in search of his cousin. On the way he met 1 man who had 1 wife with 3 children and 2 dogs. Then he also met a man named Jeffrey the 2nd, after his fathers name. Jeffrey had 1 wife with 2 boys and 2 girls with 16 slaves. As Washington was passing past the Louisiana Purchase he met a beautiful Indian Maiden name Willyweed, (no not after a plant or tree). Washington after 2 and 1/2 years of traveling finally got to California. So who went to California?

If you get this question write well then you would have made yourself probably 5 times of what you paid to answer it.

I will post the answer later on. (Going to wait and see how many people get this question wrong., before you figure out the real answer)

Good luck, trust me spend more then 15 minutes on it please, you'll need it.


xMasterMindx can you link something if that is ok, so I can see if what your talking about is a real threat?

 

[cointoss]

IMHO this would have very limited success. You could increase the success rate by allowing people to guess for free and pass the bill to advertisers. This would also decrease the amount of fee's you would be charged by your payment processor since most of the charges would likely be small amounts.

However, the potential to create enough questions to keep a large audiences attention will still be very limited. I mean, you can create questions by which the answer cannot be found with a 2 second search, but how many? And, would most users be interested enough to spend 15 minutes on a question? Despite my interest, I couldn't even muster the motivation to read the question twice...

 

[admintwo]

Ok reading what cointoss has pointed out. (Thankyou by the way)

I will change my 1st post for this thread.
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I just thought of this and well when I think of things I usually lose them.

Going to make site ASAP or when I have time.

So I am going to post this. If the post is not allowed. Please Just delete it. ( Did not mean to do anything illegal or un-allowed).

Ok, do you think you have questions that people can't answer, or questions that people can answer but are difficult to get the correct answers?
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If I refer to MMW it means ( Money Making Website )
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Well this MMW idea of mine lets myself post questions that can be answered but are difficult.

Before the a question is given to the public there will be a chance for people to enter this thing (not sure on the name yet). They have to pay an amount of money to enter, once everyone has entered, they will be sent off to a computerized chat, which will give them the question.

The first person to get the question correct or the first person to be the closest to get the question correct will receive 80 % of what everyone else paid to enter. The other 20 % of the entrey fee is given to the site.

Directly at the time the entry payers receive the question, the question will also be posted on the site. This way the ones who want money from questions get a chance to get money and those who want to just try out the questions without a fee or prize will get the question too.

If a number of people get the question correct, they will not receive a prize or cash for the correct question but are put into a group where anyone can post questions for them to answer.

Depending on the answers one of the contestants are answering correct or incorrectly or on the audiences dislike or likes of the people in this group. The audience can vote on who they want to go onto the next round.

The 2 people in that group with the highest votes will then later on be sent to another Automated chat room where ONE question will be thrown out at them that may have been exactly the same question that the viewers asked them to even come to this second round.

While they are in the automated chat room where both will only get a chance to answer once and only once, the audience or other site viewers will be able to see exactly what they have answered to the given question. Only after both answered it.

The winner will receive 80% of all the proceeds from the first round and have a change to enter again on the question contests free of charge. They can only win the Question Contest 3 times in a row and then will no longer be able to enter for free again.

Now that we are done with the paying question answerers. I will post again about the non-paying members. And have also be able to win an amount of money from the 20% left over from the the paying questioners.

This idea has gotten more and more complex every time I post it in some hosting site, due to the suggestions. How will I ever be able to script something so complex? I have come up to a solution to that also but will post it in the future.

It is kind of like a casino just that people are betting or paying to have a chance to answer a question for prizes or answer questions and win lower sums of prizes. Sorry if this part did not make sense.

Please post if your comments below. Hope you all like it by the way. Request more details if you want to, I will try to answer them when I get back.