What Are the Chances of Winning a Contest?

Your chance of winning a random draw is your entries divided by the total entries. If 1,000 entries are in the draw and you hold 1, your odds for a single prize are 1 in 1,000. Hold 5 and they're 5 in 1,000.

In a Gleam Competition, you can add to your entries in a few ways:

• Bonus Actions give extra entries with one click, and may unlock after other Actions
• Daily Entry lets you come back and enter again each day, if the campaign owner has switched it on
• Viral Share earns entries when a friend enters through your link

Two things shape the real odds. Every Action has an entry worth, so one entrant can hold several entries per Action. And campaigns with more than one winner give you more draws.

We use Random.org to pick winners at random. Winners are drawn from Actions, not unique entrants, so one person can win more than once. The owner can invalidate and repick in that case.

If you run the campaign, the Reporting tab shows users and entries side by side, so you can see how the entries are spread.