Draw rules

Entry cap and odds

Every draw has a hard maximum number of entries shown on the draw page. Sales stop automatically at the cap, so your odds can never be worse than your entries divided by the maximum.

Ticket numbers

Each entry, paid or postal, receives a unique sequential ticket number within the draw.

Closing

• A draw closes at its advertised closing time, or immediately when it sells out.
• If a draw has not sold out at its closing time, the closing rule on the draw page applies — for example, it may be extended once and then drawn regardless.

Selecting the winner

• After closing, we export one row per entrant (an anonymous entrant ID and their number of entries) to Randomdraws. No names, emails, addresses or phone numbers are shared.
• Randomdraws selects the winner and reserves live, and issues a certificate we publish on the results page.
• If the winner cannot be verified or contacted within [period TBC], the prize passes to the first reserve.