(08-05-2013 12:13 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: Each Avatar gets one, and no more. If you didn't own the cat when it the Royal was produced, you have not gotten any and are still eligible to get one.
It's not "can never get". It's simple luck. We don't know the odds, but as a rough guess I'd say it's something like 1-in-4, per box. That would put the odds of a run of 10 at around 1 in a Million; unlikely, but not extremely unlikely. About twice a likely as being killed by lightning. And about 200 times more likely than winning Powerball.
The thing about randomness .. we have to expect the occasional long run. In fact, if we never saw one, then it's not random. It sucks to be the victim of a run of bad luck, but some has to be, sometimes, or the game would not be fair.
Well I was being somewhat facetious in my last comment, but I am up to a string of 13 now with no hits. Lets say I do 20 more with no Royals: a string of 33 - at some point the programmer might want to check the logic for special cases. And from what I've seen it seems like about 1 in 4 or 1 in 3 odds were programmed, plus the condition of only one per avatar.