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17 March 2007

Only Canadians with skills can win Jelly Belly Jelly Beans from Old Navy. As for the rest of you, well....tough luck. No beans for you.→[More:]

I scanned this from the flip side of a scratch-off game card handed to me when I walked into Old Navy today with my daughter.

post by: iconomy at: 18:23 | 5 comments

Ha, that's funny. Could it be a sweepstakes law in Canada? You must do something other than filling out your name in order to win a prize?

posted by LoriFLA 17 March | 18:33

That's it LoriFLA. Otherwise it would be a game of chance and fall under gambling laws rather than sweepstakes law.

posted by arse_hat 17 March | 18:38

I was so jealous when I saw the back of the card. I want to show off my mad math skills to win stuff too. Just handing over the scratched off card is so boring.

Oh and I won 2 bags of jelly beans ;P

posted by iconomy 17 March | 18:53

So, reading skillz are insufficient.

posted by mischief 17 March | 19:24

In my entire life as a Canadian I've never seen a contest where you don't have to answer a "skill testing question."

Around 1980 when I was in public school I sent in the wrapper from a Mr. Big chocolate bar and won a Wayne Gretzky "99" jersey that would probably be worth a lot now but I wore maybe twice and didn't give a shit about. I remember I had to answer a skill-testing question.

And speaking of 'reading skillz', I just drunkenly posted this comment to the "rolled-up-jeans" thread. Embarrassing.

posted by chococat 17 March | 23:12

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