Find Competitions vs the alternatives
There are four realistic ways to find a UK prize competition: visit operators' sites one at a time, follow social feeds, work through a link directory, or use a comparison site. Each answers a different question — and only one of them lets you put two draws for the same prize next to each other.
The four routes, and what each one leaves out
| Where you look | What it's good for | What it can't tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Straight to an operator’s site | The full picture of that operator’s draws — instant-win prize tables, bundle pricing, terms and free entry routes. | Whether the same car, cash prize or console is on offer cheaper, at longer notice or at shorter odds somewhere else that week. |
| Facebook groups and social feeds | Launch announcements, discount codes and other players’ experience of an operator’s payouts. | Anything systematic. Ordering follows whatever is being promoted hardest, and posts rarely carry ticket prices, caps or how many tickets have sold. |
| Link directories and “best sites” lists | A quick sense of which operators exist and which are worth a first look. | Individual draws. Most list sites rather than competitions, so there are no live prices, no odds and no way to know if a listing is still trading. |
| A comparison site | Every live draw we track in one sortable list — ticket price, prize, ticket cap, closing date, tickets sold so far and the operator’s trust record. | How a draw is actually run. We don’t operate competitions, so terms, payment, the draw itself and prize delivery all stay with the operator. |
What makes a comparison site worth using
Aggregating listings is the easy part — anyone can republish a feed of prizes. These are the five things that decide whether a comparison actually changes which ticket you buy, and what we do about each.
Live ticket sales, not just prizes
We record how many tickets each draw has sold from the operator's own public listing, and keep sampling it as often as once an hour while the draw is live — easing off on draws whose numbers have stopped moving. That history is what turns a static prize list into a comparison: it gives every listing a sell-through figure, and it powers the Best odds sort, which ranks live draws by how few tickets have actually sold rather than by how many the operator hopes to sell.
Odds measured today, not at a sell-out that may not happen
“1 in 5,000” is the odds if a draw sells every ticket. Most UK operators draw from tickets sold, so a 5,000-ticket draw sitting at 900 sold is really 1 in 900 to whoever buys next — and that number gets worse every hour. Because we hold the sales history rather than the headline cap, the odds we show move with the draw.
Trust signals with a stated meaning
Every operator carries one of three tiers. Listed means the information is gathered from public sources. Verified means the operator has confirmed their details with us. Established means consistently accurate information and strong customer engagement over time. Alongside that we show their Trustpilot score and review count where they have a profile, and a badge for operators named on the government's voluntary code signatory list.
One filter set across the whole market
Prize category, ticket price range, closing date and sort order apply across every operator at once, so “cash prizes under £1 closing this week” is one query rather than a dozen browser tabs. Free tools sit alongside it for the arithmetic — real odds, combined odds across several draws, expected value per £1 and what a weekly ticket habit costs over a year.
Straight about the money
The site is free to use and we never take your entry payment — every entry completes on the operator's own website. We may earn a commission when you follow a link to an operator, and that never changes rankings, trust tiers or which competitions we list. Where an operator has paid for promotion, the placement is labelled as sponsored.
Where we're weaker than the alternatives
- An operator’s own site is always the authority on its terms. We read public listing pages and normalise them, so a prize description, cash alternative or free entry route is a summary — check the operator’s page before you enter.
- Our numbers are only as good as what the operator publishes. Some show exact ticket counts, some publish only a percentage that we convert back to a count, and a few show nothing at all — where we have no sales data for a draw, we say so rather than guessing, and that draw sorts last on odds.
- Being listed is not an endorsement, and a trust tier is not a guarantee. It is a record of what we have been able to check, and operators can change — a strong Trustpilot score last quarter says nothing certain about the draw closing tonight.
- We don’t cover every UK competition site. New operators appear constantly and some run entirely inside apps or social platforms we can’t read.
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