Sweepstakes Guide - How It Works

Welcome to your handy sweepstakes guide. Interested in learning more about Sweepstakes.com? Have a question about how to enter the sweepstakes on the site? Need help with something else? Well, you are at the right place. The "How It Works" page is here as a resource to help you understand everything you need to know about Sweepstakes.com so that you never feel confused or overwhelmed. This is the page you should visit when you have a question about it all how it works!

Sweepstakes.com is a completely FREE web site. You do not have to buy anything to be entered into our sweepstakes and contests.

We are able to make Sweepstakes.com a free service and give away great prizes by selling advertising on our site in the form of display advertising, videos and other great offers.

Absolutely not. Since sweepstakes are free to play and no payment or purchase is required, there is no risk that a player can lose anything of value. Therefore, sweepstakes are not considered a form of gambling.

Yes. You must accept the Sweepstakes.com Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy in order to complete your registration with Sweepstakes.com and be qualified to enter our sweepstakes.

Yes. In order to enjoy our site and enter our sweepstakes you need to be a fully registered member of Sweepstakes.com. In order to register you have to complete the registration form with accurate and valid information.

You must be 18 years old to register with Sweepstakes.com. You must be 18 on the day that a new sweepstakes is introduced in order to be eligible to enter that sweepstakes.

At this time, our sweepstakes are only open to citizens of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia. In time we aim to offer great games to players across the world, so please come back often.

You can only register one time. If you register multiple times, you will be ineligible to enter the sweepstakes and win any of the prizes offered.

In order to enter a Sweepstakes.com sweepstakes for the first time, you simply click Enter to Win under any of the sweepstakes that you want to enter. This will prompt you to complete the registration process. Once you have completed the registration process you will enter the sweepstakes “path”. In the path there will be a lot of activity. You will be asked to answer a “First Time Bonus Question”, which, if you complete, will earn you an additional sweepstakes entry. You will also be asked to answer a set of required questions in the Sweepstakes.com Survey Center. Additionally, you will be presented with a lot of great advertiser offers to choose from. You can opt-in for the offers or elect to skip and move on. Once you have completed the path, you will have earned your first sweepstakes entry!

Absolutely! You can enter all of our sweepstakes every day.

You can re-enter any of the sweepstakes for which you have completed your first entry by coming back to the site and beginning the re-entry process. If you are not logged in, you can begin this process by clicking Login on the upper right of the home page and getting to your "MySweepstakes" page. If you are already logged in, you can begin the entry process from the home page or your MySweepstakes page, which is your new home page!

Currently you can earn up to two entries per day in each of our sweepstakes. So if we had 10 sweepstakes, you could really earn up to 20 entries (2 for each live sweepstakes) every day. In the future, we plan to offer more ways for you to earn even more additional entries daily in order to improve your chances of winning and making the process more exciting.

We do not accept entries into our sweepstakes by postal mail. Entries are only accepted by completing the online submission process.

Absolutely. Sweepstakes.com is committed to honesty and integrity in the management of our online games and the fulfillment of prizes.

When winners have been determined, and we have permission, we will announce their names in the Winners' Circle. A complete list of winners can also be requested to be sent to you by mail after a particular sweepstakes deadline has passed and all of the winners have been selected. Please refer to the sweepstakes rules for these instructions.

Sweepstakes.com uses an independent third party to randomly select winners so that the chance of one of your entries being selected is equal to all other entries that have been submitted.

There is no guaranteed way to win. However, the more often you enter, the better the chances will be for one of your entries being selected. So come back every day and enter all of our sweepstakes!

If you are selected as a winner we will contact you directly using the information that you provided during registration.

If you are a winner, then follow all of the instructions in the winner notification email that you received in order to make sure you receive your prize as quickly as possible.

Sweepstakes.com is absolutely not a scam. Sweepstakes.com is a legitimate company offering fun, unique and legally-compliant sweepstakes with all different kinds of prizes. If you are still uncomfortable with us, we suggest you play games elsewhere.

Sweepstakes are a very traditional well-proven form of promotions and entertainment that, when executed according to existing laws and regulations, are completely legal. Companies of all sizes use sweepstakes to attract attention to their goods and services.

No. You are never required to click on or submit information to any of our advertisers to enter or win. The only thing you are required to do is to get to the end of the sweepstakes submission process.

No. You are never required to buy anything to enter or win. The only thing you are required to do is to get to the end of the sweepstakes submission process so that we can process your entry.

The Official Rules for each of the live sweepstakes are accessible from the home page or your personal Sweepstakes.com home page.

We have as many sweepstakes as we can find online that we think have great prizes and that you will enjoy. We have sweepstakes that we administer and sweepstakes that are run by our advertisers. If we think we have found a good one, we will be sure to put it on our site for you.

We will continue to introduce new sweepstakes, so hopefully, in no time, we will be to offer one with a prize that you think is exciting.

If you block your cookies, we cannot guarantee that the quality of your Sweepstakes.com experience will be optimal. We recommend that you unblock your cookies for Sweepstakes.com.

In order to complete your first entry into a sweepstakes, you must answer the required questions in the Sweepstakes Survey Center.

No, you do not have to answer the First Time Bonus Question. However, you will not be able to earn a second entry in your first time through the sweepstakes.

We let the Sweepstakes.com Community tell us how much they like your answer. Check out the Sweepstakes.com Community and see how your answers rate. We may also let all daily entrants tell us which they like better, your answer or someone else’s.

No, you do not have to answer the trivia questions. However, you will not be able to earn a second entry that day.

Yes, you have to answer the trivia question correctly in order to earn a second sweepstakes entry that day.

Be sure that you are logged in and from the top of your MySweepstakes page and click the View & Edit Your Profile link at the top of the page. Then click Edit My Profile, make your changes and click Submit.

Be sure that you are logged in and from the top of your MySweepstakes page and click the View & Edit Your Profile link at the top of the page. Then click Edit My Profile, make the desired changes to your Communiations Preferences and click Submit.

Please click here to see the Sweepstakes.com Privacy Policy which outlines how all information is managed.

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