While airing the ACN, KBC have been running a competition asking viewers to...and if I may paraphrase..

"Predict which team will score the first goal AND which minute the first goal will be scored AND which team will win AND the final score"

All that to win Kshs 60,000. Hmmm

Personally I think its a poor way to use premium rate SMS to make money. Think of all the variables
- at least 90 mins (to say when the first goal is scored - two matches have gone into extra time without goals) (i.e. 90 possible answers) X (times)
- Two teams (to say which will score first - two answers) X
- Two teams (to say which will win - two answers) X
- 80+ possible final scores (given the teams strengths - 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, etc 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 etc 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-0, 3-4, 3-1 etc)....80+ possible answers for either team)

Given all the above (never mind other "variable variables" like extra time, penalty shots, etc) what are the odds that anyone can get all four predictions right?

if you assume at most 5 goals - then there are possibly 30 different end results as SCORE(and 60 different results if you mention the team e.g. 1-3 Cameroun, 1-3 Zambia, 0-1 Cameroun, 0-1 Zambia).

The other thing, ANOTHER variable...if a match goes past extra time into penalties (as did Zambia vs Nigeria) - how do you decide the time of the "first goal"?

Pity about Zambia - they were MUCH MUCH more superior to Nigeria...

its unwinnable

Betting Licencing and Control Board...if you notice for competitions/raffles/lotteries there is usually a small BLCB licence number given...