I've been seeing ads all over recently for a new New York Lottery game called Minute To Win It. But I really don't like these ads... They just seem so wrong...
First off... It's just like the game show? I looked up the game show, Minute To Win It, since I'd never heard of it (not a surprise as I don't have a TV). A scratch-off lottery ticket doesn't sound even remotely like the game show.
"But a whole lot easier?" Isn't that pretty much contradicting that it's "just like the the game show?" If it's really a whole lot easier, it can't be a challenge like the game show... Every card is predetermined to be a winner or a loser, with no skill involved what-so-ever, it's all plain luck...
"No Time Limit..." Hmmm... That bugs me, too, for two reasons... First of all the name says "minute" in it, and that it's just like the game show, in which contestants have a time limit of one minute. Plus, the graphic by it shows what appears to be a countdown, sort of making it seem like there's a time limit, you have to what, scratch off the whole card in a minute?
The name having "Win It" makes it sound like it's already a winner... Never mind the odds of actually winning, especially the $1 million they fuss over, is so low, it's more realistically like "A Minute to Lose 5 Bucks". And raising hopes of winning up can't be good, considering the majority of people buying losing lottery tickets are the lower income people who can least afford it. There's a reason it's jokingly called "a tax on people who can't do math."
First off... It's just like the game show? I looked up the game show, Minute To Win It, since I'd never heard of it (not a surprise as I don't have a TV). A scratch-off lottery ticket doesn't sound even remotely like the game show.
"But a whole lot easier?" Isn't that pretty much contradicting that it's "just like the the game show?" If it's really a whole lot easier, it can't be a challenge like the game show... Every card is predetermined to be a winner or a loser, with no skill involved what-so-ever, it's all plain luck...
"No Time Limit..." Hmmm... That bugs me, too, for two reasons... First of all the name says "minute" in it, and that it's just like the game show, in which contestants have a time limit of one minute. Plus, the graphic by it shows what appears to be a countdown, sort of making it seem like there's a time limit, you have to what, scratch off the whole card in a minute?
The name having "Win It" makes it sound like it's already a winner... Never mind the odds of actually winning, especially the $1 million they fuss over, is so low, it's more realistically like "A Minute to Lose 5 Bucks". And raising hopes of winning up can't be good, considering the majority of people buying losing lottery tickets are the lower income people who can least afford it. There's a reason it's jokingly called "a tax on people who can't do math."
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