@Barloom I have not once seen parents in regular grocery stores trying to win a soft toy for their ***** by making a large number of attempts.
I have, however, often seen both men and teenage boys trying to win a soft toy for their girlfriend, wife or ***** in a fairground by buying lotto (raffle) tickets. Such stall are one of the most common attractions at German fairs. It is almost impossible to win one of these toys for less than about ten or twenty times what they would cost in a normal store (but you are unlikely to find one in a normal store because they are of too low a quality for almost any normal store to stock).
And TheEmu thinks that if a person refuses to play, then he does not know about the existence of such games?
I think no such thing. I think that in most cases that the player does know about such things but decides to play anyway. In many (possibly most) cases the decision to do so is illogical but people are known to do so anyway - this is often because most people do not understand probabilty which is a major reason why it is profitable for the providers of such games (such as Totem) to offer them.
Logic? TheEmu writes about simple and banal things that all users know about.
This is quite true, at least the first part of the sentence, I write about them because people here are often saying that are in contradictiction to these simple banal things, It seems that a lot of these posters either do not know or are deliberately ignoring this knowledge. Indeed to a large extent that is why I keep on making the points that i do - these things should be "***** obvious", to use a typical English phrase, but people keep on claiming exactly the opposite is true.