Nine Rings

This minigame was part of the Dragon Festival.

Rules
Nine rings are organized in a 3 x 3 layout in which contestants may stand. Each round costs ten 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 fifteen 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
This odds of this game will return 17 for every 18 tickets spent regardless of which circle you stand on. Standing 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 increases the chance of having to go buy more tickets earlier resulting from a bad string of luck. In this game, it does not matter where you stand if you want to get the Lucky title.

You gain on average 9.4 tickets per round no matter which circle you are on, and you always lose 10.

See also Rings of Fortune for a 4 x 4 variation.

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 the other language state the right amount: 55!