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Ten Lines in the Official Rules, and What They Actually Mean

Nobody reads them. They are also the only document that tells you what you are actually playing for, and roughly half of it is there because somebody once got sued.

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

The load-bearing sentence, in capitals, at the top.

This is not boilerplate and it is not modesty. It is the sentence that keeps the promotion from being an illegal lottery.

A prize promotion becomes a lottery when it has all three of prize, chance and consideration — consideration being something of value you give up to take part. Remove it and you have a sweepstakes, which anybody may run. Leave it in and you have something only a state government may operate.

So when you see those three words, they are telling you the structure of the entire thing. If the promotion also sells something with a game piece attached, the capitals are doing double duty: they are promising that somewhere below, there is a free route to the same prizes.