Official rules

Last updated October 8, 2026.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. The weekly drawing can also be entered, for free and without an account or picks, by the free entry form (section 7).

These rules include an agreement to resolve disputes by individual arbitration, and a waiver of class actions and jury trials (section 15). You can opt out within 30 days.

1. Who runs it

The contest is run by Split the Win LLC, 2501 Chatham Rd, Suite N, Springfield, IL 62704 ("we"). Prizes may be provided by sponsors named on the prizes page. Questions: support@splitthewin.com.

2. Who can play

Legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where they live, if higher: 19 in Alabama, 19 in Nebraska, 21 in Mississippi). Our employees, the employees of prize sponsors, and their immediate families and households are not eligible for prizes. One account per person, and one account per email address. Accounts must use accurate information, and a player must confirm their email address to be eligible for prizes.

3. How to play

• Accounts are free. At the start of each contest week, every player's balance is reset to exactly 1,000 points, whatever it was at the end of the previous week. Points don't carry over from one week to the next. A player who signs up during a week starts with 1,000 points.
• Points are free. They can't be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged for cash or anything else, and they have no cash value.
• Players use points to make picks on sporting events. All points picked on an outcome go into one pot; when the result is final, the players who picked the winning side split the pot, together with any starter points on that side (below), in proportion to the points they put in. Each pick is limited to 500 pts. Each player may make one pick per event, on one side. Until picks on the event close, a player may add points to their pick, as long as its total stays within 500 pts; a pick can't be lowered, canceled or moved to another side.
• Picks on an event open at 2:00 AM Eastern Time on the day it's played (events starting before then count as the previous day) and close when the event starts. If an event is postponed or canceled, or ends in a way that doesn't decide a pot (such as a tie), every pick in that pot is refunded.
• When picks on an event open, we add 2,000 starter points to its pot, divided between the outcomes according to published pregame odds for the event (equally when there are none), with each outcome receiving at least 5% of them. Starter points count toward the pot and the price each winning point pays in the same way as picks, but any points they win are removed from play and awarded to no one. Starter points belong to no player and never count toward any standings, drawing entries or prizes. The event's page shows how many starter points are on each outcome. A pot that already contains picks when it would receive starter points does not receive them.

4. Contest period

Each contest week runs from 2:00 AM Eastern Time on Monday until 2:00 AM Eastern Time the following Monday, when every balance is reset. A pick belongs to the contest week in which it is made, even if its event ends after that week does. Points a pick returns after the reset count toward its own week's results, not toward the new week's balance.

5. How winners are chosen

Players are ranked by points won on the picks they made during the week: the points returned by those picks minus the points they picked. Refunded picks don't count. To be eligible for a week's prizes, a player must make at least 5 picks that week (refunded picks excepted) and have a confirmed email address. Results come from official game results as reported by our sports data provider. If a result is reported wrongly and then corrected, we may correct the pot's settlement, which can change points already won, or void the pot and refund every pick in it. Once a contest week's winners are confirmed, its results stand.

Ties. Points won is the only thing that ranks players. Players with the same points finish in the same place and equally split the prizes for the places they occupy together. For example, if two players tie for 2nd, each receives half of the 2nd-place and 3rd-place prizes combined, and the next player finishes 4th. If players tie for the last prize place, they equally split what's left: two players tied for 5th of five prize places each receive half of the 5th-place prize. A share that doesn't divide evenly is rounded up to the next cent. There are no other tie-breakers, and no random tie-breakers of any kind. (Tied players are listed alphabetically on the leaderboard; that order doesn't affect prizes.)

A week's winners are decided once every pick made that week has been settled; if an event's result still isn't available 3 days after the week ends, the week is decided without the picks on that event.

6. Prizes

All prizes are cash, in U.S. dollars. Each week's prize amounts are posted on the prizes page before the week starts.

Prizes are paid by PayPal or check (the winner's choice) within 14 days after a winner's eligibility is confirmed. Prizes can't be transferred. Winners are responsible for any taxes. Winners paid $600 or more in a year must provide tax information (IRS Form W-9) before being paid, and will receive an IRS Form 1099 when the law requires one.

7. Weekly drawing

Each contest week also has a free random drawing (the "Weekly Drawing"). No purchase or payment of any kind is needed to enter or win, and nothing that can be bought affects entries or the chance of winning. At least one winner is drawn every week. When the week has cash drawing prizes, one winner is drawn for each prize; when it has none (as now, until cash prizes start), one winner is drawn and announced on the site, with no prize.

There are two ways to enter, and every entry has the same value and the same chance of winning, however it was made.

• Entering by playing. A player earns one entry for each picking day (2:00 AM to 2:00 AM Eastern Time) on which they make at least 3 picks, each on a different event. On a day with fewer than 3 events, a pick on every event that day earns the entry; postponed and canceled events don't count toward a day's events. Picks count when they're made, whatever their result.
• Entering by the free entry form (Alternate Method of Entry). Anyone eligible may enter without an account, without making picks and without any purchase, by completing the free entry form at https://splitthewin.com/drawing/free-entry. The form asks for first and last name, date of birth, street address, city, state, ZIP code and email address, and agreement to these rules. We then email a confirmation link; an entry is complete only when that link is opened, within 48 hours, and it counts for the picking day on which it's opened. A form entry counts the same as an entry earned by playing.
• Limits. One entry per person per picking day, by either method or both together, and so at most seven entries per person per contest week. Entries beyond these limits, entries made through more than one account or email address per person, and entries made by automated means (scripts, bots, macros), in bulk, or by any person or service on someone else's behalf are void. Entries can't be transferred.
• Who entered. An entry is treated as made by the authorized holder of the email address it was made with: the person assigned that address by its email provider. We may require any potential winner to show that they are that person.
• Which drawing. Entries count for the contest week of the picking day they're for. The drawing for a week takes place after 2:00 AM Eastern Time on the Monday that ends it, once every pick made that week has been settled (see section 5).
• Drawing. Winners are selected at random by computer, using a cryptographically secure random number generator, from all eligible entries received for the week. Each entry has an equal chance of being selected, so a person with more entries has a better chance. A person can win at most one drawing prize a week. A record of every eligible entrant's entries is kept with each drawing.
• Eligibility. The same as for the weekly contest (section 2). Players must have confirmed their account's email address; form entrants confirm theirs with each entry. Form entries made with the email address of a player's account count as that player's. Demo players are never eligible, and their entries aren't counted.
• Prizes. Posted on the prizes page before the week starts. Drawing prizes are paid, and taxed, as described in section 6. If fewer eligible players have entries than there are prizes, the remaining prizes aren't awarded that week.
• Odds of winning the drawing depend on the number of eligible entries received that week.

8. Odds

The odds of winning a weekly contest prize depend on the number of players and on how well each player picks. The odds of winning the drawing are described in section 7.

9. Winner notification and verification

Potential winners of the weekly contest are shown on the leaderboard. Potential winners of the weekly drawing are emailed when the drawing takes place, and in any case within 7 days of the drawing; contest winners are contacted by email within 7 days after the contest week ends. Every winner is a potential winner until their eligibility is verified.

To claim a prize, a potential winner must reply within 7 days of our message and may be required to confirm their identity, age and residence, to sign and return a declaration of eligibility and, where lawful, a liability and publicity release, and to provide an IRS Form W-9 when section 6 requires it, all within the time we state. If a potential winner can't be reached, doesn't reply or return the documents in time, is found ineligible, or has broken these rules, the prize is forfeited: a contest prize goes to the next eligible player, and a drawing prize to an alternate winner drawn the same way from the remaining eligible entries. Returned or undeliverable prize notices may lead to forfeiture. No more than two alternates will be drawn for a prize; a prize still unclaimed after that isn't awarded.

10. Fair play

We may disqualify anyone who uses more than one account or email address, enters more often than these rules allow, uses automated tools, gives false information, or uses any other method we believe is unfair or tampers with the contest or drawing, and void their entries. We may cancel, suspend or change a contest week or drawing if it can't run as planned because of technical problems, data errors, fraud, a virus, or anything else beyond our reasonable control; if a drawing is canceled, we may draw its prizes from the eligible entries received before the problem. We aren't responsible for lost, late, incomplete, garbled or misdirected picks, entries or emails (including ones blocked by spam filters), or for any technical failure. Proof of sending an entry is not proof that we received it; our records decide.

11. Privacy

We use the information you give us, by playing or by the free entry form, to run the contest and drawing, check eligibility and contact winners. We don't sell it. Passwords are stored only as one-way hashes, and email addresses, dates of birth, names and addresses are stored encrypted. See the Privacy Policy for details.

12. Publicity

Except where prohibited by law, winners agree that we may show their username (or, for a winner who entered by the free entry form, their first name and last initial) and the prize they won on the site and in lists of winners, without further payment or permission.

13. Release and limitation of liability

By entering, participants release Split the Win LLC, prize sponsors, and their respective officers, employees and agents from any liability for any loss, injury or damage arising from taking part in the contest or drawing or from receiving or using a prize, to the fullest extent the law allows. Prizes are awarded as described, with no substitution, transfer or cash equivalent, except that we may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the stated prize becomes unavailable. Except where the law doesn't allow it, any claim a participant has is limited to their actual out-of-pocket costs of taking part (taking part is free), and participants give up any right to punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. This doesn't limit any remedy the law doesn't allow to be waived, such as lawyers' fees a statute provides.

14. General conditions

These rules are governed by the laws of Illinois (except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs section 15), and are subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws; the contest and drawing are void where prohibited or restricted by law. By playing or entering, participants agree to these rules and to our decisions in running the contest and drawing, which are final, except that any dispute is resolved as section 15 says. If any part of these rules is found invalid, the rest still applies. We may transfer these rules, with all our rights and duties under them, to anyone who takes over running Split the Win. Apple Inc. and Google LLC are not sponsors of the contest or the drawing and aren't involved with them in any way, including in the Split the Win app. For a list of winners, or a copy of these rules, email support@splitthewin.com within 60 days after the contest week ends.

15. Disputes: individual arbitration, no class actions

Please read this section carefully. It means that a dispute between you and us is decided by a neutral arbitrator, one person at a time, and not by a judge or jury or in a class action, unless you opt out (below). It's the same in the Terms of Service and the Official Rules. In this section, "we" and "us" means Split the Win LLC and anyone who runs Split the Win now or later, with their owners, officers, employees and agents, and also the prize sponsors for a dispute about a prize.

Talk to us first. If you have a dispute with us, email support@splitthewin.com (or write to 2501 Chatham Rd, Suite N, Springfield, IL 62704) with your name, your username or the email address you entered with, what happened, and what you'd like us to do. We'll do the same at the email address you gave us if we have a dispute with you. We'll both try in good faith to resolve it, and neither of us will start an arbitration or a lawsuit until 60 days after that notice. Any deadline for bringing the claim is paused during those 60 days.

Individual arbitration. If it isn't resolved, any dispute between you and us that arises out of or relates to Split the Win, the Terms of Service, the Official Rules, the weekly contest, the weekly drawing or any prize will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis, not in court. The one exception: either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, as long as it qualifies there and stays there. The arbitration will be run by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and fee schedules (available at adr.org), before a single neutral arbitrator. Under those rules, we pay most of the arbitration's costs. Hearings are by video or phone, or in person in the county where you live if you prefer, and a small claim can be decided on written submissions alone. If the AAA can't or won't run the arbitration, we'll agree on another arbitration provider, and if we can't agree, a court will appoint one. The arbitrator may award you the same damages and other individual relief that a court could award you in the same case, applying the Terms of Service and the Official Rules just as a court would, including any remedy the law doesn't allow to be waived, such as lawyers' fees a statute provides. The arbitrator decides every question about the dispute, including whether it falls under this section and whether this section can be enforced, except that a court decides whether you agreed to this section or opted out of it, and whether the class action waiver or the public injunctive relief paragraph below can be enforced. The arbitrator's decision is final, and any court with jurisdiction may enter it as a judgment. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

No class actions. You and we may bring claims against each other only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. An arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding, and may award relief only to the person who asked for it, and only as much as that person's own claim requires.

Public injunctive relief. If a claim asks for public injunctive relief (an order whose main purpose is to benefit the general public) and a court decides that the law entitles you to ask for it, that request will be decided by a court, after the arbitration of everything else in the dispute is finished, and it's paused until then.

Many claims at once. If 25 or more similar demands for arbitration are filed against us, or by us, by the same or coordinated lawyers or organizations, the AAA's rules and fee schedules for mass or multiple case filings apply. Each claim is still decided individually, on its own facts.

Opting out. You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days after you first agree to these rules (or, if you agreed to these rules before this section was added on October 4, 2026, within 30 days after you agree to this section) by emailing support@splitthewin.com, or writing to 2501 Chatham Rd, Suite N, Springfield, IL 62704, with your name, your username or the email address you entered with, and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. One opt-out covers both the Terms of Service and the Official Rules, and it doesn't change anything else in them.

In court. If you opt out, or a dispute isn't decided in arbitration for any reason, it will be decided only in the state or federal courts located in Illinois (or in small claims court where you live), and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. To the extent the law allows, the class action waiver still applies there, and you and we each give up the right to a trial by jury.

Which disputes, and future changes. This section applies to every dispute it covers, including one that arose before you agreed to it, except a lawsuit or arbitration already started by then. It keeps applying after an account is closed or deleted. If we change this section later, the change won't apply to a dispute either of us has already given notice of, and you can reject the change by emailing support@splitthewin.com within 30 days after it takes effect, in which case this version keeps applying to you.

If part of this section can't be enforced. If a court decides that the class action waiver can't be enforced for a claim, that claim (and only that claim) will be decided in court instead of in arbitration, and it may never be arbitrated on a class basis. If any other part of this section can't be enforced, that part is removed and the rest still applies.