Double winner again

Hello Mainsail! I made a link to the Arcade page HELP with loads of information on the Rewards Sweepstakes entries (starting in section 15) and the random winner selection!

I put tickets in for 4 years now and have never won anything

I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but neither am I a silly spoon. …. If it is Croaking and Hopping around … You must call it a Frog.

congrats to the double winner!!!

I’ve seen that before as well. It’s definitely very odd and statistically unlikely. Congratulations to the winners.

If you enter for more than one you have the same chances 😉

I too have seen this happen more than once.  Hard to believe this is random.  I would think that someone would figure out that this doesn’t sound legit, and only allow one winner for the same date.

These are all independent drawings.  Just like there are people who win the lottery more than once, there will be people who win the drawings here more than once.  

The fact that you win one drawing does not affect your chances to win another.  If there are 1 million tickets entered for a drawing and you enter 10, your chances of winning that drawing are 10 in 1 million.  (And 1 million entries is not inconceivable since HSN has said there are over 1 million players in the arcades.)   If you do that for 10 different drawings, your chances of winning each drawing are still 10 in 1 million.  Even if you win the first drawing, your chances of winning the second drawing are still 10 in 1 million.  Etc.  

I won twice within a space of a short time about 2 years ago.  I haven’t won anything in the drawings since.  It’s purely the luck of the draw.

The only way to prevent anyone winning multiple times would be to limit the wins to one per person per period of time.  The problem with that is 1.  No one would want to enter for the lesser items so HSN would either have to curtail the number of drawings or take a hit in the cost of the prizes;  and 2.  If people see the rewards as a reason to play in the arcade (and watch HSN at the same time with their streaming), they would have no reason to continue playing until they were eligible to win again.  That could put a serious dent in HSN’s bottom line.  Obviously all of us don’t play just because we want to win–especially since you can enter without playing; but it still could cause a significant problem for HSN.

If there were 2 intries and I was one the other person would win every time, I am just not lucky in winning prizes .

I don’t see where it says how winners are chosen in your help link.. They have to have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of entries per drawing.  It is impossible for the same people to keep winning all of the time.  It is suspicious.

Can you give us an idea how many people on average enter the drawings?

Congrats to the double winner! I think that’s awesome you won twice!

I agree with all the post regarding the winners, but my question too as an add on is do all the winners have a membership for HSN? It doesn’t state this anywhere as to who is eligible for prizes, and it does appear to be unfair that there are multible winners with the same name.. If this is supposed to be computer generated according to the rules over 1 yr ago, I myself find it very odd that these people would be winners again & again… I do want to Congratulate the winners :smileyhappy:

Don’t feel bad all the prizes are not fantastic I have won 2 before though not at one time suppose it depends on how many people enter.  Think it is luck the puzzles well I probably will never win that those people must be really fast.  congrats

Can’t win a dare thing many many points down the drain.  Still trying why not is just going to happen I quess later than sonner.  Don’t give up players good luck to all.:smileyhappy:

Lucky I quess just happy for all the winners and players enjoy the games :smileyhappy: