Rings of Fortune

This minigame was part of the Dragon Festival.

Rules
Sixteen rings are organized in a 4 x 4 layout in which contestants may stand and costs two tickets per round. Every eight seconds, any player standing in a ring pays the two ticket cost. One ring is randomly chosen as the winner. Standing in that ring wins anyone in the circle twelve tickets. Standing in a ring in the same row or column awards three tickets.

Pan organizes games into groups of twenty rounds. Each full cycle takes a little over three minutes to run with a momentary pause to attract new players between cycles.

Odds
The odds of this game return 15 tickets for every 16 spent.

Using this game to obtain 5000 losses will require you to play 8889 games. Each game, on average, you are expected to lose 0.125 tickets. This means obtaining 5000 losses will cost you 16.7 platium.

Of course you would also obtain ticket won counts. After you obtain 5000 losses, you should have 16667 tickets won.

You gain on average 1.875 tickets per round no matter which circle you are on, and you always lose 2.

If the player wants to get both titles, it is advised that this game be used to obtain losses and Nine Rings be used for ticket won counts.