The odds of winning the lottery on the Game Boy Color title were 1 in 65,536
Beyond establishing themselves as fun experiences among colorful monsters, games of Pokemon They also stood out for hiding secrets behind a system of probabilities. Example of this is the lottery of Pokémon Silver; a function also available in other titles in the series that grants items to players based on your trainer ID (value that is assigned randomly at the beginning of the game). And, while it is true that getting rewards in this activity is not strange, things get complicated if we aim for the biggest prize.
This is how Pokémon fans remember it following cgw3737’s publication in reddit. Showing that has won the lottery in Pokémon Silver (and has obtained a Master Ball as a gift), the community has been surprised to see that this functionality actually offers prizes to players. In fact, user Mikarda responded to the post saying “Wait, could you win them?”
A lottery that few have won
This interaction, in turn, has caused the community to consider the chances that a player has of winning the lottery in Pokémon Silver. The user stevensterkddd comments on the publication revealing that the Nintendo system rewards the user with its most important prize through a probability of 1/65,536 (the number of unique IDs available in that Pokémon generation.
However, this could be improved by exchanging Pokémon copies with other players, since the system also took into account the IDs of other trainers with whom we interacted. In short, the best probability of winning the lottery in Pokémon Silver was approximately 1/7,000. So we are talking about a nice feature that, to this day, continues to surprise the fan community.
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