Your game is rigged!

At our work cafeteria, there has been a contest going on for the last few weeks where everytime you buy something from the cafe, they give you a little card with a part you scratch of to see if you won a prize. After a few days of the game starting I had amassed a small collection of cards that won me 50 cents off a cup of coffee, or something as cool as that. I had won (and I use the term loosely) about half the cards I had scratched, and it was all fine. After a week, a co-worker pointed out that:

a) the cards had serial number looking things on the back and
b) if your card ended in 1, you did not win a prize.

Well, that's pretty cool. If I actually could chose my card rather than having it given to me by the checkout person, it might matter. Somehow, this information got to the cafe managers though and soon after all the cards had their serial numbers cut off. That was about 2 weeks ago, and ever since I haven't won a single thing. I imagine that somewhere out there is a Microsoft Cafe worker swiming in all the winning coupons, finding happiness in cheaper lattes and free yogurt cups with purchase of an entree.

Rigged I tell you!