Iwateguy
Major-General
I found the neighbourhood pot at 560 ... and won in two tickets with the double chance.
It's probably not worth it at lower levels (when you're forced to spend your ticket(s) at 200).
7 hours ago by Mr.Quib:
" I think the double chance is a waste of florins. For each loss at the 5% game you gain 15 florins, but spend 20.
The best chance for the 5% is collecting at least 50 tickets before playing.
No guarantees, it has cost me around 130 tickets before I won and I started when it was at 460. "
I haven't noticed any mention of the time it would take to amass that big pile of tickets. While some quests are certainly fast to do, something with 8-hour productions will take at least that long unless you speed things up (with diamonds). Once you have more than 11 tickets, regeneration stops. I'm sure someone at higher levels can finish the tasks faster than I can but I can't help but think the 5% and 15% "games" are the ones Inno put in to fleece the customers.
I'll admit I throw a ticket their way on occasion when the prize is high enough for my greed genes to kick in but it's always my last ticket. If it were my first ticket, I might fall prey to that notion of "my luck is bound to turn with just one more ticket." "Rats! One more..." "Rats! One more ..."