Our gaming laws are strict and private lotteries are illegal but games of skill are not. The skill testing question purportedly changes a straight up contest into a feat of skill. Everyone knows the laws are outdated and no one really cares about the question. There are many private contests in Canada. The skill testing questions are always a joke and I'm sure you get a lot of help answering them. I've never heard of someone losing a prize because they couldn't do the question. In fact I would be surprised if that was legal since one could argue the question was discriminatory.

I thought it might be something like that. Thanks so much for the answer. I suppose the question could be 2+2=

I've seen weird rules like that for different states in the US.

Annie, I did some more digging and apparently we have specific rules about the difficulty of the question!!

"It may come as a surprise to some, but we actually have case law in Canada which has instructed us on the sufficient degree of difficulty that a skill-testing question must have in order to truly constitute skill to complete it. This is why all or most skill-testing questions that you see in contests are four-part mathematical questions with 2 to 3 digit numbers employing the BEDMAS equation which we all learned in elementary school math classes."

That's interesting. Especially since I never learned BEDMAS...though I know the order of operation....

A step up from the Canadian Sweepstakes math question?

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