Are you lucky at winning contests?

Go you!

I used to enter a lot of competitions, but haven't for years. I won several short trips, including ones to New York, Paris, and Rome, and a couple that were in 5-star hotels in the UK. I also won dozens of CDs, books, DVDs and games.

I'm a big fat LOSER. But I'm always happy to celebrate someone else winning.

Not at all. I don't think I have ever won anything, save for a free ticket here and there on the lottery.


The only thing I am good at getting picked for is jury duty. It's the worst superpower ever.

I've won 3 contests on Facebook in the last year. A $100 gift card to a local boutique, a prize package that included a cookbook, water bottle and a few other small things, and a Lego/College Choice gift package. That was the best one, we got a Lego set, 4 tickets for Brickworld and $529 contributed to our College Choice account-a 529 college savings plan. I won each of them just by liking a Facebook post.

Actually yes I am and I should try more often... Items I have won over the years:

Starting around 5th grade I won a gallon sized container of Candy Corn by guessing how many Candy Corns were in the container.
Movie Tickets
John Mayer tickets at Red Rocks
Lots of Scrapbooking stuff, including a pink backpack, paper packs, etc.
A new windshield for my car
Trip to Vegas including Celine Dion tickets, flight and hotel and one dinner
Contest at work by guessing baby pictures to employee/ $50 at a department store
Tickets to the Denver Western Stock Show

Some others I can think of off hand

Not to shabby.. never a car though  My dad was always lucky so I guess I get it from him

I actually don't mind it that much. The process is interesting, and I always got lots of reading done.  If I got jury duty pay from work, I wouldn't mind at all, but being self-employed, it hurt the wallet a lot.  

I went a few times because I felt civic obligation, but now I just get out of it.  I've done my time, pick someone else.      


My family in general all get picked WAY more than anyone I know.   My grandfather had been called 19 times at one point.  

Yes. It used to be my hobby before I took up running. I had the same limerick that I've used many times to win things like $500 vouchers to stores or dinners out. I just change the words a bit to suit the competition. In the US I think it's called sweeping and people do it as a job. I really don't think luck has anything to do with it. Being different or what the judges are looking for is key. Like one competition for kids toys went like this. Tell us why your child deserves X toy. Everyone wrote about how special their kid was and their kids characteristics. I wrote. 'I'm Fred. I am six and three quarters. I like rocks. I like cars. I like new rocks and new cars...etc' It was written as Fred and the judges liked the originality. I don't even think you need to be a wordsmith. Just quirky.

I never win anything!

I enter scrappy related contests frequently. I usually go a long stretch of winning nothing and then all of a sudden, I win a bunch in succession. The first one I won was a Ranger scavenger hunt (they gave a prize to the first correct email and then a random winner after that, I was the random winner) many years ago and I'll never forget it. I also find that I tend to win giveaways when I desperately need the pick me up. I consider it the universe's way of keeping the good and the bad in balance.

Ever since I was a kid I have won things both intentionally and unintentionally. I don't enter contests, because I won't give out my info to strangers or potential solicitors, but that doesn't matter. I win anyway. I've won televisions, money, huge spa baskets and all sorts of stuff. It's great fun.

ETA:  I won the first football pool I ever entered and I knew nothing about football.  People HATE me.

No, but DH and my youngest are so I always make them pick numbers or take the raffle ticket 

The one time I won a contest was during a Super Bowl event. There were hundreds of people and I won the grand prize, which was a grill. 

I was so excited because we desperately needed to replace our grill. Then they presented it to me. It was a giant football helmet that had Budweiser written all over it and you had to lift the face mask up to get to the grill 

We ended up giving it away to a guy who clearly loved the thing so much that he was asking the promoters where he could buy his own. He was over the moon when I told him we already had a grill at home and he should give this one a good home. He called his wife on the phone to excitedly tell her about their new grill. I can only imagine the look on that poor woman's face when he got home and showed it to her 

I'm pretty lucky with drawings/door prizes. The biggest was $1,000 to a shoe store last year. That was fun to spend. I've also won a Blu Ray player with a surround sound system, a gift certificate for a condo for a week, a dozen decorated Elf on the Shelf cookies, a week of zoo camp for DD, a year membership to the local Children's Museum, $50 to Gigi's cupcakes, and $25 to Starbucks. In raffle drawings where you purchase tickets and drop them in the raffle item of your choice, I've won a painting, several gift cards, a kitchen aid mixer, and a few gift baskets. I also have won my fair share of smaller door prizes.

I don't win contests much, but in 4th grade, I entered an essay in a Father of the Year contest, and mine won. My dad got a great prize package full of gift certificates and stuff.  There was a looooong dry spell after that where I never won anything, but around 2003, I started winning a good bit.  I remember that time frame because I was going to Creative Memories crops, even though that wasn't my cropping style, and I won door prizes several times in a row.

I've been trying to win a big trip for years with no success though.

I've won concert tickets several times over the years, that's about it!