The house almost always wins or are my assumptions wrong... import random
amounts = [.01, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 750, 1000, 5000, 10000, 25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000, 750000, 1000000] results = [] count = 0 while count < 10: count = count + 1 pick = random.choice(amounts) if pick < 100000: results.append("NBC won... Your briefcase contains $%s" %pick) else: results.append("You won... Your briefcase contains $%s" %pick) results.sort() print "Here are 10 random picks: " for result in results: print result -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list