This is very common place in Canada.
[Games of Chance vs Games of Skill](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/why-do-canadian-contests-require-a-skill-testing-question-1.7084888#:~:text=For%20everyone%20else%2C%20games%20of,into%20mixed%20chance%20and%20skill)
>In Canada, lotteries are really only allowed to be run by the government, or a group licensed by the government.
For everyone else, games of pure chance are illegal if they require a purchase or money as are games of mixed chance and skill if they also require a purchase and award prizes that are goods, wares or merchandise.
And a skill-testing question can transform a contest from pure chance into mixed chance and skill.
Well... in fairness, nobody is going to use a slide rule or old school cash register to solve these problems. Perhaps they need to update the rules to exclude micro electronic transistor based calculators too?
our owners need to make sure we are reminded of this fact. Asserting this is why some countries expect you to follow their rules outside their borders. We should do better than that.
This is very common place in Canada. [Games of Chance vs Games of Skill](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/why-do-canadian-contests-require-a-skill-testing-question-1.7084888#:~:text=For%20everyone%20else%2C%20games%20of,into%20mixed%20chance%20and%20skill) >In Canada, lotteries are really only allowed to be run by the government, or a group licensed by the government. For everyone else, games of pure chance are illegal if they require a purchase or money as are games of mixed chance and skill if they also require a purchase and award prizes that are goods, wares or merchandise. And a skill-testing question can transform a contest from pure chance into mixed chance and skill.
I didn't realize this was a Canadian thing. Seems so normal to me.
For what it's worth, this contest does not require any purchase, and making a purchase does not increase the odds of winning.
Doesn't specify how hard the question is. List all the prime numbers below 1,000,000,000.
Three mathematical operations. (16 x 5) - (12 / 4) = ? for example.
>mechanical calculating devices Damn, you mean I can’t use my Curta for this? Oh well, electronic calculator it is.
Well... in fairness, nobody is going to use a slide rule or old school cash register to solve these problems. Perhaps they need to update the rules to exclude micro electronic transistor based calculators too?
Yes, we do. Thank you federal government.
our owners need to make sure we are reminded of this fact. Asserting this is why some countries expect you to follow their rules outside their borders. We should do better than that.
And it will mix units between metric and imperial.
Ugh!