Official rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR WATCHING AN ADVERTISEMENT WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING VERSUS A VALID FREE ENTRY OF THE SAME WEIGHT. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. 18+ only.

WatchPot runs two separate promotional sweepstakes: (1) the nightly WatchPot drawing and (2) the Instant Crate. They are not lotteries, not gambling, and not a casino. Winners are selected by chance. Entry is free. Optional advertising views may grant additional entries of equal weight. After the posted sponsor amounts are used, Sponsor pays prizes only from cash an advertising company has actually paid to WatchPot LLC. Estimated views, unpaid balances, and sample ads do not create a prize.

Eligibility

Open to individuals who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry, have a valid email, and are physically located in a permitted US state. One account per person. Employees of Sponsor and their household members are not eligible. Sponsor may disqualify automated, stolen, incomplete, or fraudulent entries.

Where you may play

WatchPot is open only in the United States, excluding jurisdictions where sweepstakes-style play is prohibited or treated as unlicensed gambling. As of 2026 that block list includes California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington, plus all non-US locations. We determine location from the IP address of your connection (a geo fence). GPS tracking is not used. VPNs, proxies, and location spoofing are prohibited. If your region is not eligible, you will see “This game is not available in your region” and you will not be able to sign in or play. The block list may change as state law changes.

Promotion 1 — Nightly drawing

How to enter free: sign in and press “Free nightly entry,” or use the mail-in method. Limit one free entry per person per drawing. Optional extra entries: complete a 30-second advertisement with this tab visible; each verified view is one additional entry of equal weight. Seeking, skipping, or backgrounding pauses the ad and does not create an entry.

Drawing: for the first twenty (20) nights that have at least one eligible entry, Sponsor awards $5.00 from its own funds, not from advertising. The first of those nights is 9:00 p.m. America/New_York on Sunday, September 27, 2026. One entry is selected uniformly at random at 9:00 p.m. America/New_York. A night with no entries is not one of the twenty, and the $5.00 stays in the sponsor purse. After those twenty awarded nights, the drawing returns to the advertising rules below.

After the sponsor purse: each night at 9:00 p.m. America/New_York, if the advertised jackpot is at least $5.00 and WatchPot LLC has already been paid enough cash by an advertising company to cover the award, one entry is selected uniformly at random from all eligible entries in that drawing. The prize is the jackpot at draw time, not a fixed amount. Maximum advertised jackpot is $500.00. If the jackpot reaches $500.00 before 9:00 p.m. Eastern and that cash is already in hand, Sponsor draws that pot immediately and opens a new pot for the 9:00 p.m. drawing. If 9:00 p.m. arrives and the jackpot is under $5.00, or the ad company has not yet paid the cash, there is no drawing that night; entries roll to the next 9:00 p.m. Eastern and no winner is owed the unpaid amount. The jackpot does not grow, and is not awarded, until Sponsor has recouped $10.00 of operator share from cash the ad company has paid. After recoup, Sponsor seeds $5.00 (taken from that recouped amount) and fifty percent (50%) of later cash received from advertising is added to the jackpot until it reaches $500. A finished view, a dashboard estimate, or a balance the ad company has not released does not count. Amounts over $500 start the next drawing. After the sponsor purse, aggregate prizes paid will not exceed cash WatchPot LLC has actually received from advertising companies. The twenty $5.00 sponsor nights are the only nightly prizes Sponsor agreed to front, and they are not refilled. Free entries do not add to the jackpot; they share it. If there are no entries, the balance rolls. Odds depend on the number of entries. Prize is account credit pending identity and eligibility review; cash-out is PayPal, Venmo, or check (minimum $1.00). Unclaimed prizes roll forward after 14 days.

Promotion 2 — Instant crate

How to play free: sign in and press “Free daily play,” or mail a crate AMOE card. Limit one free crate per person per Eastern calendar day. Optional extra plays: complete a crate advertisement; each verified view grants one additional crate ticket of equal weight.

Prizes: $0.01, $0.03, $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, and $1.00. Nothing higher than $1.00 is awarded on one opening. Selection is weighted so smaller amounts are more common (see posted odds). A prize is only eligible if the crate vault can cover it at the moment of the play. Sponsor funded the first $20.00 of that vault and will not add more of its own money. After that $20.00 is used, the vault grows only from fifty percent (50%) of cash an advertising company has actually paid WatchPot LLC for crate ads. A finished view, a sample ad, or an unpaid ad balance adds $0 and creates no prize. If that cash is not yet in hand, the prize is not awarded and is not owed. Free plays use the same vault and the same odds as ad-earned plays; they do not add funds. Credits land in your WatchPot wallet pending payout review.

Equal dignity

Free entries and ad-earned entries have the same chance per entry / per crate play. Ads are optional. Sponsor will not give ad-earned plays a better prize table, a private vault, or a faster draw than free plays.

Advertising

Inventory is 30-second rewarded video. A sample or house ad can still earn an entry or a crate ticket. It does not add money to either prize, and it does not put Sponsor on the hook to pay one. Sponsor does not owe a jackpot or a crate prize, beyond the posted sponsor amounts, until the advertising company has paid WatchPot LLC.

What this is not

WatchPot is not a lottery (no consideration is required). It is not a casino, sportsbook, or dual-currency sweepstakes casino. You cannot buy coins, chips, or crate tickets. You cannot wager the wallet balance on a future play.

Sponsor: WatchPot LLC, 200 S Eaton St, Lakewood, CO 80226, thewatchpot.com. These rules are a product draft for the promotion design. They are not legal advice. Before a public US launch, Sponsor should retain a promotions attorney, complete any required state registrations or bonds (including Florida, New York, and Rhode Island if advertised prize value exceeds applicable thresholds), and confirm tax reporting (IRS Form 1099-MISC/NEC as required). Mail-in entries: WatchPot LLC, Attn: Sweepstakes AMOE, 200 S Eaton St, Lakewood, CO 80226. Privacy: thewatchpot.com/privacy.