The Mog Bonanza Homecoming Comes Rolling into Vana'diel! Follow

There's a way to guarantee getting a rank 5 reward. Since you can purchase 10 marbles, and rank 5 will be a number from 0 to 9, just make sure that each marble you have ends with a different number.

I don't know if anybody remembers this, but way back when, there was a mog bonanza that was set up so that if you bought all your marbles on PS2 and you let the moogle choose for you, you were guaranteed not to win a rank 5 prize.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, there is never any overlap between ranks. That is to say, the last digit of the rank 1-4 winning numbers will never be the same as the rank 5 digit. So it's only possible for a given marble to win one rank.

* The winning number for each prize rank will be drawn separately. In the event that winning numbers overlap for multiple prize ranks, the higher-ranked prize will be given precedence. For example, should the winning numbers for ranks 4 and 5 be “11” and “1” respectively, the holder of a bonanza marble etched with the number “11111” will be awarded with a rank 4 prize.

Not sure why this seems confusing to me, something tells me I'm overthinking it.

The problem with the PS2 thing was that the 'pick my number for me' on PS2 was different from other platforms and very un-random. It picked patterns like 12121 or 23423 and would never produce something with two consecutive digits the same, like 23466. While this didn't technically change the chances of winning at all, it meant that all PS2 players using that function were choosing from a very limited pool of numbers, and when the numbers drawn were someing like 54688 and 66 for rank 1 and rank 4 prizes, it meant that nobody on a PS2 using the 'choose my numbers' option could have possibly won those because it would never pick those due to the silly patterns it used.

Others took the pattern the PS2 client used for generating numbers and assumed that would be the pattern SE would use for generating winning numbers, so partly advocated using it and partly thought they had an advantage over people picking 'numbers that won't be used' in the inverse of the above issue. Needless to say, these people were idiots.

picking vere for rank one because It's best mnk weapon and I'm too lazy to farm timed nm and buy abyssea items

You could take the cash and pay people to get you a level 90 Empy and still have 80% of it left over.