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Title: Wheel of Valpak Contest
Post by: SwohS Emag on April 03, 2009, 09:22:40 AM
I found myself reading the Wheel of Valpak sweepstakes promotion "official rules", and item #8 discusses a Canadian winner - who has to answer a math question correctly in order to claim the prize.

Is this an April Fools joke?  Is this typical for Canadian sweepstakes?

Item #8 in this link, http://www.wheelofvalpak.com/rules.php (http://\"http://www.wheelofvalpak.com/rules.php\"), has me a baffled!
Title: Wheel of Valpak Contest
Post by: Kniwt on April 03, 2009, 09:51:26 AM
Behold the Canadian "Skill Testing Question," explained here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question\")

... which links to this much more entertaining read on the same subject:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72511 (http://\"http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72511\")