AOPA Sweepstakes Rules- Canadians have to pass a test to win?

[Brad Z]

I thought this was a joke when I first read this, from the AOPA win a twin
sweepstakes official rules:

"...In compliance with Canadian law, if winner is a Canadian resident, he or
she must first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question before
the prize will be awarded. If the potential winner is unable to correctly
answer the question, AOPA will select an alternate winner."


Can anyone shed some light as to the purpose of this Canadian law? Is this
to keep mathematically-challenged people from owning aircraft?

[MH]

I can't say "officially" where this law came from but any/all "free" or
giveaway prizes in Canada have this silly attachment to them.

Almost always the question is mah related and looks like.

What is 33 x 3 /9 =

In this case, 11. also i've noticed o nthese that the BEDMAS principles
generally do not apply. I've seen questions with () in them but the answer
is only "correct" if you do the math in sequence and ignore the BEDMAS
rules.

I'm sure someone else can give you more details eh? :)

"Brad Z" > wrote in message
news:wrwRb.125923$Rc4.979896@attbi_s54...
> I thought this was a joke when I first read this, from the AOPA win a twin
> sweepstakes official rules:
>
> "...In compliance with Canadian law, if winner is a Canadian resident, he
or
> she must first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question
before
> the prize will be awarded. If the potential winner is unable to correctly
> answer the question, AOPA will select an alternate winner."
>
>
> Can anyone shed some light as to the purpose of this Canadian law? Is
this
> to keep mathematically-challenged people from owning aircraft?
>
>

[G.R. Patterson III]

Brad Z wrote:
>
> Can anyone shed some light as to the purpose of this Canadian law? Is this
> to keep mathematically-challenged people from owning aircraft?

Sounds like a poorly worded law against games of chance. That type of law is the
reason behind some of the things you have to do to enter sweepstakes like the
Publisher's Clearing House.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

[Drew Hamilton]

In article <wrwRb.125923$Rc4.979896@attbi_s54>, Brad Z wrote:
>Can anyone shed some light as to the purpose of this Canadian law? Is this
>to keep mathematically-challenged people from owning aircraft?

It's a lot easier to register your sweepstakes as a game of skill
than a game of chance. So they make it into a game of skill by
asking a mathematical question. I think that there has to be at
least 3 operations in the question for it to be skill-testing.

Someone else wrote something about Canadians all carrying around
calculators all the time (presumably on the off chance that we'll
win a sweepstakes?). I certainly don't know anyone who does..

- awh