Nine Rings

Nine Rings is a minigame that was originally opened during the Dragon Festival. The Boardwalk games appeared again on:
 * October 20 to 22, 2006 – Prior to the release of Nightfall
 * February 23 to 25, 2007 – As part of Gamer Weekend

Rules
Nine rings are organized in a 3 x 3 layout in which contestants may stand. Each round costs 10 tickets. Every eight seconds, one ring is randomly chosen as the winner. Players standing in that ring are awarded 25 tickets if it is the center, 40 if it is on the side, or 55 if it is a corner. Standing in an adjacent ring to the winning ring awards 15 tickets.

After the ticket fee, the net winnings are this:
 * Center: 25-10 = 15 tickets
 * Side: 40-10 = 30 tickets
 * Corner: 55-10 = 45 tickets
 * Adjacent ring to winning one: 15-10 = 5 tickets

Teilah organizes games into groups of nineteen rounds. Each full cycle takes approximately three minutes to run with a momentary pause to attract new players between cycles.

Odds
The odds of this game will return 17 for every 18 tickets spent regardless of which circle you stand on. If you are trying to achieve the Lucky title, it does not matter in which ring you stand. Standing on a corner circle will increase the rate of losses for those hoping to achieve both the Lucky and Unlucky titles simultaneously, but standing in corner circles also increases the chance of having to go buy more tickets earlier resulting from a bad string of luck.

You gain an average of 9.44 tickets per round no matter which circle you are on, and you always lose 10. This equates to 3572 tickets gained per hour (at a cost of 228 tickets forever lost per hour), which means that on average, it requires 14 hours (and 12.8 stacks of tickets lost) to earn 50,000 tickets towards each title:


 * 1) Charmed: 14 hours and 48 platinum (spent on tickets that are forever lost)
 * 2) Lucky: 28 hours and 96 platinum
 * 3) Favored: 70 hours and 240 platinum
 * 4) Prosperous: 140 hours and 480 platinum
 * 5) Golden: 280 hours and 960 platinum

Translation mistake
There is a mistake in the German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese translation. According to those you gain 50 tickets when winning in a corner. That's not true. All of the other languages state the correct amount: 55