1/20,000 odds with 1 ticket
Closes Sun 15 Nov, 20:00
Same draw, same odds, no purchase necessary.
Win £500 Tax-Free Cash
About this prize
£500 tax-free cash, paid by bank transfer within one working day of the winner being verified. Drawn automatically at 9pm on its closing date, sold out or not. Free postal entry available.
- £500 paid by bank transfer
- Tax-free, the full amount is yours
- Drawn on its closing date, sold out or not
- Free postal entry route with identical odds
Key facts
- The prize
- £500 in cash
- Ticket price
- 9p per ticket, in minimum orders of 25
- Skill question
- You must answer the skill question correctly for your entry to count.
- Free entry
- Every draw can be entered free by post, with the same odds as a paid ticket. Free entry route
- Who can enter
- 18+ You must be 18 or over and resident in Great Britain to enter.
- The draw
- The draw runs automatically at 9pm on the closing date, sold out or not, using a provably-fair method. How draws work
- Verification
- Anyone can check a draw result independently. Verify a draw
- Full terms
- The full terms and conditions apply to every entry. Read the terms
How the draw works
- Answer the skill question correctly to qualify your entry.
- Your tickets are entered into the draw.
- With the result we publish the entry total, the revealed secret and the winning ticket, so anyone can check the draw.
- The winner is drawn Sun 22 Nov, 21:00 automatically, using a verifiable random method, the result is published and anyone can check it.
- The winner is contacted and published in our winners archive.
Prefer not to pay? Enter free by post, same odds, no purchase. See free entry route.
Independently verifiable This draw picks its winner from 27,000 tickets using a public randomness beacon nobody can predict, including us. Try the maths yourself.The draw
Competition rules & terms
- Entry
- 9p per ticket (the full price, including any VAT), minimum order 25 tickets, or free by post (no purchase necessary, identical odds). 18+, residents of Great Britain only.
- Tickets in the draw
- 27,000 maximum, limit 1,250 per person.
- Closing date
- Sun 22 Nov, 20:00
- Draw
- Sun 22 Nov, 21:00The winner is drawn automatically using a verifiable public randomness beacon. Verify it yourself.
- Checking the draw
- The entry total, the revealed secret and the winning ticket are published with the result. Your own ticket numbers are in your account. How to check this draw.
- Qualifying
- Answer the skill question correctly. Winners are contacted and published in the winners archive.
- If it doesn't sell out
- It is still drawn at 9pm on its closing date and the full prize is awarded. We never cancel, postpone or reduce a draw because of low ticket sales, and we never extend a closing date to sell more. Winners are selected at random from all qualifying entries, in accordance with the laws of chance, using a verifiable random draw.
Our full terms and conditions apply to every entry.
FAQs
How do the odds on the £500 draw compare?
They are among the shortest here. The draw is capped at 1,080 tickets, so it is one of the smaller pools on the board, and your chance is simply your tickets divided by that cap once the figure is published on the page.
What is the skill question like?
A single multiple-choice question that you must answer correctly for your entry to count. This one asks which element has the chemical symbol Fe. A wrong answer disqualifies the entry whether it was paid for or posted.
How many tickets can I hold in this draw?
Up to 50 of the 1,080, across paid and postal entries combined. Bundles run to 42 tickets, so the most you can pick up in one go is 42 paid plus 8 free, which is the 50-entry limit exactly.
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