Apparently the story goes that this 20-25 year old bottle was found in 2016(?), which went viral online, and Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES anyway. (Plus a bunch of other stuff)

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 months ago

    I know you could peek under the cap that way, but I also recall caps that said “Sorry, try again” or something like that. Maybe those “not a winner” messages were added as a response?

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      4 months ago

      Exactly right. It got harder, but not impossible to detect winners once they made that change.