Crunching the Numbers on the 2008 Edition of Roll up the Rim to Win

If you look at the results below you'll notice that the Tim Cards, GPS and Boat are pretty much fairly distributed throughout each of the regions. However, you'll notice quite the difference for the Matrix.

The spreadsheet to quickly view this information has been included here.

First thing I noticed are there are almost 300 million contest cups this year - 282,492,000 to be exact.

Your overall odds of winning the Matrix are about 1 in 8 million.
However you have the best chance of winning the Matrix is in region 4 which is Quebec (excludes Bas St.-Laurent, aspsie & Iles-de-la-Madeleine) & Labrador. Your odds of winning the Matrix there are 1 in 5.5 million. The worst place to have a chance at the Matrix is in Ontario, where your odds are 1 in 10 million.

I thought the differences in odds were interesting, what do you guys think of this?

2008 Roll Up The Rim Prizes

Well, its here, Tim Hortons annual Roll Up The Rim To Win contest means spring is just around the corner. The prizes this year pretty good. The car this year appears to be a little less than what they have given in prior years but we now have a million dollars worth of Tim's cards that are going to be given out. I think that medium level prizes like this are more promising than a bigger grand prize. I would settle for a Garmin Nuvi prize too! That is one of those type things you always want but don't really want to spend the cash on it so if you won it in a prize its perfect!

I noticed on the cup today, your odds of winning are 1 in 9. I'm 0 for 1 so far!