First of all: I used the search function and recognized some efforts to establish a lottery before this.
What I intend to do is the following:
everyone has the chance to participate
bets doesn't matter, as long as they are above 1 million
everybody has the chance to win
the more players, the higher the jackpot
These are some basic facts. Now I will explain the details.
I will provide a simple method to participate. Maybe a small form on the Discoverer without required login, where you can post images of your bets with your name. (Secured with a little captcha to avoid spam bots.)
After a certain amount of time (longer duration) or the achievement of a certain sum (harder to implement), the drawing will start. Now there are three possibilities:
one of the participants wins all the money (giving back a small part to the jackpot would be nice)
the jackpot increases
the Discoverer wins (the jackpot becomes smaller)
What do you think? Good as it is? Improvements?
Before we start, I would provide you with the source code of the algorithm, which handles the lottery in order to prevent mistrust.
It's just simple... submit your bet to The-Discoverer and post the way I did (subject = character name ; screenshot of bet + timestamp). And you're in. Drawing on Friday, April 17th.