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Originally Posted by GOLDNSQUID
What I am saying is that it's drawing senerios to present the players and not just randomly selecting a card from the deck. If it was drawing cards that would be gambling
. The winner has to be picked at random for a sweepstakes to be a sweepstakes.
Do you have a link to this law?
The idea that they'd have to remove all skill from the game makes no sense to me. If it's a game of chance, it should work under sweepstakes rules. If it isn't, they wouldn't need to worry about sweepstakes rules at all - a game of skill should be able to be offered up without any of these regulations, just like a sports competition.
Just checked out the link you provided in the OP, and I'm wondering how you could have come to the conclusions you did if you read it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweepstakes
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Under these laws sweepstakes became strictly "No Purchase Necessary to Enter or Win", especially since many sweepstakes companies skirted the law by stating only "No Purchase Necessary to Enter",[4] removing the consideration (one of the three legally required elements of gambling)[5] to stop abuse of sweepstakes.
This is what I've always understood to be the essence of these sweepstakes that offer entries for money without being gambling, and that's why Global has the ability to enter for free by mail.
And as for luck vs skill, my understanding has always been quite the opposite of yours - if it was all luck, it would essentially be gambling and need to be licensed as such. That's why places like McDonald's do this:
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Notably, sweepstakes in Canada, Australia and several European countries require entrants to solve an (elementary school level) mathematical puzzle or answer a (fairly simple) knowledge question or solve a (trivial) fill-in-the-blanks guessing competition, making it (in theory at least) a contest of skill, in order to overcome requirements that would classify sweepstakes as a form of gambling under their country's legal definition.
What you're suggesting Global is doing would have the complete opposite effect. By removing any skill, they'd be turning the game into pure gambling, which would be a legal problem.
But I'm certainly no legal expert, so if you know something different, please share.