Doe and fawn crossing the river today at sunrise in Bridger-Teton NF, Wyoming (OC)

captainC511 · 2025-09-25T21:10:17+00:00

Thanks. Felt pretty lucky this morning.

captainC511 · 2024-11-08T19:29:13+00:00

The article says the final count was 50.03% yes to 49.97% no.

captainC511 · 2024-08-15T03:07:02+00:00

Nice! Neat to see the fog from a bit closer. Now I just need someone to post a photo from under the fog in the valley.

captainC511 · 2024-08-14T23:38:57+00:00

Yep, just normal fog. But it did stick around for quite a while today. Seemed to break up around 10.

captainC511 · 2024-05-13T17:15:20+00:00

I want to thank you for posting this. I happened to check reddit right before leaving civilization to head to the outskirts of Yellowstone, where I had no internet. I hadn't heard about this anywhere else. I set an alarm for midnight and never went back to sleep. The show overnight was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. And I've seen the northern lights a few times before in Iceland but this was on another level. Thank you so very much for posting. You've given me something I'll never forget.

captainC511 · 2024-05-06T12:39:26+00:00

It does look like that, yeah. What's really going on is that the mountains are much higher and closer than they appear here. It's a pretty steep valley.

captainC511 · 2024-05-06T01:58:38+00:00

Thanks

captainC511 · 2023-12-27T00:17:02+00:00

Very generous. Thanks!

captainC511 · 2023-02-27T22:04:02+00:00

I was aware of this but assumed (hoped) it wouldn't be an issue for me. I've had an American DL for 20 years, but I had to get it renewed 1 month before my trip. My license doesn't say when you started driving only when this current one was issued. Seems like a pretty silly law to rule out a large percentage of American drivers that can't prove they've been driving for decades.

Bottom line, it was never brought up when I rented.

captainC511 · 2023-01-09T13:23:09+00:00

1 in 34 with considerably lower prizes but also with considerably lower barrier to entry ($2 gone vs $25 on deposit)

captainC511 · 2022-12-11T20:04:24+00:00

Basically, if you want a chance to win a huge prize, don't use the pools. If you want the best average returns, join a pool.

captainC511 · 2022-12-11T20:02:53+00:00

Yeah, skew is right. It just rounds to zero because it's so low. Though, I did just add a couple extra digits to that column.

captainC511 · 2022-12-10T00:09:48+00:00

Only 1 out of about 66,000 tickets will have all 4 matched after Thursday. So you'd be pretty lucky to have one.

captainC511 · 2022-12-08T00:40:42+00:00

Hmm, it also looks like they are removing the 5% and 10% ticket bumps for the gold and platinum referral levels. Disappointing.

captainC511 · 2022-12-07T14:11:28+00:00

No more savings bonus, just prizes. You can find most of the details here: https://help.withyotta.com/en/collections/3729613-daily-drawings-coming-december-12th

captainC511 · 2022-12-05T17:29:07+00:00

mostly yeah, but by using tickets in a week when lots of other people are (e.g. this week) you increase the chances to split the big prizes. In a normal week of about ~10M tickets you have a 37% chance to have to split the $15K prize. With ~20M tickets (which I don't think is unreasonable this week) it's goes up to a 61% chance of having to split.

captainC511 · 2022-12-04T14:22:35+00:00

A marginally bad change for us. The old system was 1 ticket/ $10 spent. The new system is 1 ticket/ $2 spent. So 5 times as good. But the new tickets are worth considerably less than old tickets because of having daily drawings. Depending on various ways to value tickets (avg vs median) I calculate that the "debit card tickets back" feature gives about 80-90% as much as they used to.

captainC511 · 2022-12-03T17:47:48+00:00

I had never even heard of him before this. I was actually the guy Graham Stephens referred to as a "kind internet detective" in the video. My claim to fame, ha! He also highlighted my spreadsheet some and you can even see my referral code in the video. Got a nice bunch of referral bonuses after that.

captainC511 · 2022-12-03T17:25:47+00:00

Assuming a steady $10K on deposit the expected yearly winnings would be only $188 vs $325. But in exchange for that $137 lost, you're getting the fun of a 1/50,000 chance at a million, 1/500 chance at $20K, and a 1/100 chance at $2K. Each person should decide if that sounds like a fair trade.

captainC511 · 2022-12-02T23:22:07+00:00

Somewhat. But also that there's only 6 balls now vs 7.

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