Information About Contests & Sweepstakes

Many people cannot understand about the difference between Contests & Sweepstakes. Both are games, but the basic difference is that contests are games of skill, while sweepstakes are games of chance.Information about contest and sweepstakes
Examples:      Drawings and raffles are sweepstakes.
     Checkers, baseball and darts are contests.








Points of Difference


ON THE BASIS OF SKILL

Skill is only the pillon with the winner as a driver in the case of contest. And a practice make a man perfect so to improve your chances you can only do that by becoming more skillful, by practicing, and by working carefully.

ON THE BASIS OF LUCK

The winner is determined strictly by luck in the case sweepstakes. So, there is absolutely nothing you can do to improve your chances, other than following the rules.

ON THE BASIS OF BETTER ODDS

The odds of winning a sweepstakes are extremely small. In big sweepstakes the odds can be less than 1 in 100,000,000. It is rarely even worth a postage stamp to enter. In our contests we usually have less than 100 entries. Your chance of winning is typically around 1 in 4. That is more than a million times better than many sweepstakes.

ON THE BASIS OF ENTRY FEES

Since sweepstakes are games of chance, it is illegal to charge an entry fee. That would be gambling. Gambling by mail or by phone is illegal.Contests usually charge an entry fee. It is worth the fee because the odds are so much better.

ON THE BASIS OF TRICKERY

Sweepstakes often deliberately try to trick people. They make it look like your chance of winning is very high, when it is really very low. So sweepstakes have a very bad reputation.

ON THE BASIS OF CONFUSION

Some sweepstakes try to appear legitimate by calling themselves contests. This is very confusing to people. They cannot tell real contests, like the ones at The Contest Center from sweepstakes. That is exactly what sweepstakes promoters want. Don't be fooled.
Many people believe that it is illegal for contests to charge entry fees. This is because so many sweepstakes call themselves contests. Sweepstakes are not contests.

ADVICE TO YOU

The advice from our side is this: if you like sweepstakes, enter as many as you like to play on the Internet, because there they cost nill. You can cheak here for listings of some of the best. Never enter through the e-mails in sweepstakes. That is wastage of money as well as time go to genuine contests or puzzle, and skip the sweepstakes. Puzzle contests charge some bucks because due to your better chances of winning.