Megasack Giveaway Day 8: Specialized Gambit helmet

Just checking - do we only get 1 email now even if we have ticked both options? I'm not fancying my chances, but just checking that my chances are higher with 2 entries instead of the 1...

Mark put a post about the changes in yesterday's thread:

With the new tick box system there will only be a single confirmation email. If you are a full member and you’ve ticked the box all is well and you will be counted twice.

I only had one entry box to tick so not sure if I got my second entry

I thought that Hannah's guess was pretty good.

Anybody else putting random answers in for the draws they don’t want just to get entries for the Megasack? Or is it just me? Feels wrong to be in with a chance of winning an individual item that is not wanted but somehow okay for the whole thing.

If you are drawn as a winner for the Megasack your entry still has to have the right answer to the question associated with it. Wrong answers don't count in the draw.

The way it works, as you will see on the live broadcast on New Year's Eve, is that first I pick a number between 1 and 16 using Random.org and that picks the day from which I then pick the Megasack winner, again using random.org. The winner is only the winner if they got the answer right for that day. The reason is that if we just picked from all entries then we'd be running a lottery and that needs a licence. However, you don't need a licence for a 'game of skill'. In this case the skill is in picking the right answer.

This explains why daytime TV programs run competitions with ridiculously easy questions to avoid having to declare themselves a lottery and get a licence for every competition they run.

If you don't want the day's prize then simply enter for that day late, after the draw.