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editorial · 2026-08-31 · 8 min read
What a free-entry sweepstakes app still has to prove
Playable tickets, a published draw, and a prize funded by ads can be a sweepstakes. They are not automatically a trustworthy one.
By Kyle Lewis, Editor
Editorial, dated August 31, 2026. We are describing public pages we opened, not announcing a launch.
Disclosure: Chance Infinite is operated by Luck Incorporated LLC, the company that publishes this site. It is the case study here precisely because the publisher can show its receipts; the grade and every deduction are on the ranking page, on the same rubric as every other listing.
Update, August 31, 2026: the tests in this explainer are now applied in practice. SweepstakeReport ranks sweepstakes apps exclusively; the scored field is on the rankings page and the apps that failed these tests are documented on the reviewed-not-ranked page.
Most of the programs in our launch-edition ranking, now archived on the legacy programs page, were websites with a form. A smaller set is an application you install. Chance Infinite, by Luckinc LLC, is the one we are using as a case study because it is the rare mobile app that both looks like a game shelf and publishes a no-purchase, tickets-never-sold claim in the App Store and on luckincorporated.com.
Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, sells no tickets. Its Terms say games are not a separate way to earn them, but both store listings still list games as one, costing a rules-transparency point. The operator's winner record lists three draws, $100, $100 and $200, each with a commit-reveal proof.
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What the public pages actually say, retrieved August 31, 2026: the app is free. Tickets are earned by playing named games (Plinko, Mines, Keno, Crash, Scratchers, Lucky Dice, Coin Toss, Horse Race, Case Opening, Towers, Ticket Trader, Find the Hen), watching ads, answering surveys, daily missions, streaks, and passive tickets while you play. Half of the reserved ad-slot revenue funds the prize pool, a term of the operator's Terms since September 6, 2026. One random player wins the pool at the end of each monthly contest. Draws use a cryptographic commit-reveal; the operator publishes a verification page and a winner record. Winners listed there as of this date: Contest 1, @sketchyechey, $100, drawn July 21, 2026, 334 entries; Contest 2, @DelDad, $100, drawn August 21, 2026, 4,616 entries. Contest 3 was listed as live, started August 22, 2026.
Update, September 25, 2026: Contest 3 paid @candychris $200 over 8,659 entries, drawn September 21, 2026. The prize carries a $100 floor under those Terms, and each contest's pool is fixed when it opens. Official rules summary: Luck Inc LLC, U.S. 18+, tickets cannot be bought. App Store listing additionally names Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany.
Update, October 1, 2026: the operator’s Terms do not list playing games as a way to earn tickets. Section 5 of the current Terms (luckincorporated.com/terms-of-service, “Last Updated: September 26, 2026”, retrieved October 1, 2026) says “Games are not a separate way to earn tickets: a game is played by staking tickets you already hold”, and makes the number of tickets that may be earned “subject to per-period and per-hour limits described within the App”; the operator first wrote the games sentence into its Terms on September 9, 2026, as our corrections log records. Both store descriptions still list “Play the games” under “HOW YOU EARN TICKETS”, the mismatch behind a one-point rules-transparency deduction since September 25, 2026. This passage should have carried this note from September 19, 2026, when the review, the grade rationale and the roundup were corrected. Chance Infinite is operated by this site’s publisher.
That is a lot of specific, checkable structure. It is also a short public history. Two published $100 prizes do not make a Prize Patrol. Five App Store ratings, even at 5.0, are not a reputation. We do not know download counts, and we will not invent them. The operator itself says the provably-fair math does not prove the unpublished entry ledger.
Territory, the multiplayer board game named on the store listing, and the B2See / Impressions advertising products on luckincorporated.com, are part of how the company says it makes money: businesses pay for ads and creator campaigns; players do not. If that remains true, the commercial design matches sweepstakes law better than a coin shop. If a future version sells entries, it would fall off this list the same day.
Our ranking puts Chance Infinite near the top because free-entry purity and draw transparency are the point of this magazine. At launch it was not number one, because prize credibility still has to be earned in public, over time, with more than two $100 receipts. (Update, September 1, 2026: that sentence was written against the launch edition, where Chance Infinite ranked fourth of fifteen. After the apps-only re-scope it ranks first of five; prize credibility remains its weakest axis, and the standing deductions are in the review.)
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