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How are winners chosen?
Just wondering: Does anyone know how winners are picked? There are a few options of how to enter, no one has ever told us how winners are eventually picked.
Just wondering: Does anyone know how winners are picked? There are a few options of how to enter, no one has ever told us how winners are eventually picked.
Thanks for your query - I hope the following will answer it adequately.
We feed in the entry figures from all available sources: coupons, faxes, calls, texts and web entries, and our database works out the percentage of winners from each one. It then determines from which source each winner will be drawn. Once we have these figures, the handling houses (one for post and one for all other methods of entry) do the draws according to prize value.
Winners are drawn at random from all entries received by the closing date. Coupons are picked by hand and everything else, including faxes which are received and stored electronically, is picked by computer.
Best wishes
Laura Morris
Puzzle Magazines
Just wondering if someone is chosen as a winner for a certain prize, would she or he be blacklisted for a certain time or for life?
No, not at all.
The draw is done entirely at random with everyone having the same likelihood of winning as someone else, regardless of if they have won before. It's possible, although obviously very unlikely, that someone could win every month.
Thanks Laura, that seems fair.
Ron
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