pokemon items that had near zero chances of being yours. back in 2000 when pokemon gold and silver launched, professor elm gave every player one master ball as a special gift. most players believed that was the only one they would ever get in the entire johto region. but there was actually a second chance in goldenrod city. inside the radio tower, a weekly lottery called the lucky number show aired every friday. the game randomly picked a five digit number, and if it perfectly matched the trainer id of any pokemon in your party or box, you won prizes. matching the last two digits gave you a pp up. three matching digits handed over an exp. share. but if all five numbers lined up exactly, you walked away with another master ball. every trainer id in the game was randomly generated from 65,536 different possibilities. that meant your odds with a single pokemon were a crushing 1 in 65,536, roughly 0.0015 percent. even if you traded to collect more ids, the chances stayed ridiculously low. this master ball gift is the rarest item a player can get in the whole pokemon gaming series.