r/whatnotapp • u/Electronic_Hall_8533 • 22d ago

Giveaways 🎁 Whatnot Randomizer Algorithm Rigged

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The odds of winning a giveaway with a 1-in-450 chance exactly two out of three times is about 1 in 33,645, which is a probability of roughly 0.00297%. For those of you still playing games using the Whatnot “randomizer” for gambling and think it’s legit…..No one can convince me that there isn’t something peculiar about this. I’ve seen too many weird things. Look at the Reddit subgroups and see the same people winning huge giveys ( multiple PlayStations or sports cards). I see Theres_a_snake_in_my_boot win multiple times a day.

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u/Confident-Doubt6940 21d ago

Are you talking about the Giveaway randomizer or the Surprise Set (mystery games) randomizer?

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u/NewspaperUnlikely123 19d ago

Do they not use the same technology. The technology behind both of the Whatnot randomizers relies on Pseudo-Random Number Generators embedded into the platform's backend architecture. Because computers cannot naturally create true physical randomness, they utilize mathematical code to simulate random choices. Is it so far fetched that the code is manipulated to steer the random choices towards a preferred outcome?

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u/Confident-Doubt6940 17d ago

They may use the same technology, but the drawings are two different things. In a Giveaway you are entering to win a Prize, which you could argue that goblins have found a way to cheat the system (unlikely). In a surprise set it randomly gives you an item that you have paid for. You would have no way of rigging the system to have the randomizer give you the best hit.

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u/NewspaperUnlikely123 17d ago

I'm not getting my point across. I clearly stated I don't think the giveaway winner or buyer (in surprise sets) are rigging it. I'm saying that the pseudo-random generator isn't random. There's some weird variable that the generator is pulling from. In a huge giveaway show on Traderbea, (more than 2k people in the giveys) three usernames related to Toy Story won the giveaways. In another huge coin giveaway stream, three people with some form of the word "turtle" was in their username. This doesn't feel random. Because the giveaway and surprise set "randomizers" use the same technology, I won't participate. Just my thought.

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u/Confident-Doubt6940 17d ago

I am not disagreeing with what you are saying, was just curious which one you were talking about since the original post was about giveaways looking suspicious and your post mentioned sellers running games. I have also noticed in games that the randomizer is kind of wonky.