How We Draw
How we pick our winners
Once the competition has ended – whether this is because we sold all tickets, or the competition’s end date has been reached – we will announce when the draw will take place via our social media and email channels.
Our watch and designer competitions are normally drawn on the next working day after they close, at approximately 10am UK time, and streamed live on social media. Pokémon card competitions are drawn automatically once they close – see below. Free postal entries are included in every draw on exactly the same basis as paid entries.
Draw the winner
To fairly draw a winner, we use one of two draw services, and each competition page tells you which one applies. Watch and designer competitions are drawn with random.org, a third-party supplier. Each draw is documented on the site and ready to be seen by the public here. Pokémon card competitions are drawn with Verified Random – see below.
Pokémon card competitions
Our Pokémon card competitions are drawn automatically once the competition closes, using Verified Random. Verified Random picks the winning ticket using randomness from the drand network, a public random number service run by a group of independent organisations around the world, so no single party controls the numbers it produces. Once the draw has run, the winning ticket number appears on the competition page with a “View Verified Draw Result” link, so anyone can check the result for themselves.
Contact the participants
Once a winner has been determined, we pick the winner from our system and an email will be sent out sharing the winning number to all competition entries. Our winners can also be seen on our winners page. For Pokémon card competitions, the winning ticket number is published on the competition page as soon as the draw has run.
Pick up your prize!
We will then get in touch with the winner and either arrange pickup or delivery of the competition prize.
How we pick our winners
If you want to find out previous draw results or want to find out how the latest competition ended, please head over to the independent drawing site random.org (over 180,000 public draws to date) which we use to ensure that all our draws are carried out independently and fairly. These draws are timestamped and the list of entrants is submitted beforehand and cannot be altered.
For our Pokémon card competitions, the verified result of each draw is linked from that competition’s page.
Win big prizes for small prices!
Browse through our host of different competitions and enter today to win prizes!