get a 17 bedroom houe for £60

Sam Vimes

anyone want a £650,000 home in yorkshire for £60? just guess where the shadow ends. they're only taking 25,000 entries so you'll have to hurry

http://www.winthishome.org.uk/

Tar.Aldarion

Hmm, not actually that hard, have done this before, but 60 hmm, it might take a few guesses.

Peteee

So they give you the house, which cost £650,000, and they themselves make off with a cool 1.5 million, giving 250,000
to charity?
Seems like there more then one winner here!

sdanseo

I don't get why they give away a house worth £650k to raise £250k. Why not just sell the house?!

Alun

sdonn_1 wrote:

I don't get why they give away a house worth £650k to raise £250k. Why not just sell the house?!

If they sell the house for ₤650k and give away ₤250k of that they're left with ₤400k and get to downsize.

If they get their 25,000 entries at ₤60 a pop, they get a cool ₤1.5 million, give away ₤250k and they get to keep ₤1.25 million to buy an even bigger house.

zuutroy

surely some rendering experts can go to work on that and get a pixel perfect answer

ixoy

Interesting idea - wonder if they'll make their target figure. Fair dues to them if they do.

zuutroy

ixoy wrote:

Umm surely the fall of the shadow will depend on the time of day/year? Otherwise it's a complete guess.

Or you could gauge if from the other shadows cast in the picture, which I think is the point.

Edit: Penny dropped?!

Sam Vimes

ixoy wrote:

Interesting idea - wonder if they'll make their target figure. Fair dues to them if they do.

the website has had 20,00 hits a day since they launched it last wednesday

Mitch Connor

my dad entered a comp like this for a ferrari 360 a couple of months back. It was a spot the ball comp. I don't know what the exact figures were; but it was something like this:

Winner: 756*134.
My Dads guess: 756*133.

Gutted.

jester77

Wouldn't you need a license to do this as it's a lottery?
*scratches chin*

davyjose

My guess: Somewhere on the wall under the branch in the foreground. Around 495 x 227. too cheap/sceptical to enter though.

davyjose

jester77 wrote:

Wouldn't you need a license to do this as it's a lottery?
*scratches chin*

It's only a lottery if there is absolutely no skill or knowledge required on behalf of the participant, and vice versa - hence there are no questions for the farmers and finglas-heads on winning streak.

zuutroy

jester77 wrote:

Wouldn't you need a license to do this as it's a lottery?
*scratches chin*

It's not a lottery, its a game of skill! If those stupid ads on TV can get away with "In which country is New York, a)Ireland b)Yemen c)USA. Text now to win and iPOD" then this is fair enough.

jester77

I see!! So there's nothing to stop someone from setting up one of their own?

Tar.Aldarion

No, not that I know of.

Sam Vimes

davyjose wrote:

It's only a lottery if there is absolutely no skill or knowledge required on behalf of the participant, and vice versa - hence there are no questions for the farmers and finglas-heads on winning streak.

that's exactly right. they said on the radio that they made it a game of skill to avoid having to obey lottery rules

Sam Vimes

jester77 wrote:

I see!! So there's nothing to stop someone from setting up one of their own?

well to do something like this all you need is a £650,000 house to give as a prize

but you can set up one of those text to win things and hope enough people text in to pay for whatever the prize is plus advertising.

iguana

Commander Vimes wrote:

well to do something like this all you need is a £650,000 house to give as a prize

How much would people be willing to pay to win a £350k house in London?

It's in a skanky part.