Listener snaps 63-week streak to win $31K on KFAN’s Initials Game in Las Vegas

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One caller used his own initials to win $ 31,500 in a very unlikely twist on the KFAN Power Trip Morning Show Thursday morning.

Each week for the past 63 weeks, the Power Trip team has given a caller a chance to guess exactly which initials would be used for this week’s Initials Game, where personalities compete against each other while host Cory Cove reads clues, each Answer included is the same initials.

To win the cash, the lucky caller will have to guess – in the correct order – the initials the radio show used that day, with the weekly prize pool of $ 500 passed away for each wrong answer, a series that has been around for more lasts than a year.

On Thursday, the initials were CR, and that’s exactly what Carl Rotman suspected.

“Get out of here,” Cove responded. “You guessed your own initials.”

And as luck would have it, the Power Trip Morning Show was broadcast live from Las Vegas on Thursday. The odds of winning are technically around 1 in 676 attempts, although realistically the odds are slightly better – Cove suspects somewhere between 1 in 250-300 – since the Initials Game usually doesn’t use letters like Z, X and Q, among other things.

Cove started The Initials Game more than seven years ago and has since turned it into a board game that is sold at Target. They introduced the chance for a caller to win money 63 weeks ago, with the jackpot increasing by $ 500 every week if they don’t have a winner.

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Cove said a lot of people think the Vegas win was rigged, but he told Bring Me The News that it was 100% organic.

“In a really weird way, I almost wish it hadn’t started today,” said Cove, noting that the point of victory happened on the same day that a Kickstarter hit two new versions of the board game.

How popular is the game? The Kickstarter has already generated more than $ 47,000 – well above the Kickstarter target of $ 30,000.

Cove said he started the game’s jackpot expansion 63 weeks ago on suspicion that someone would get lucky and win once every four or five years. Next week the odds will stay the same with a jackpot of $ 500.