The average person has more idle time scattered through their day than they realize — waiting rooms, commutes, the ten minutes before a meeting starts, the lag between finishing dinner and starting anything else. For sweepstakes entrants, that time is genuinely useful...

Ask someone who wins sweepstakes regularly how they do it and the answer is almost never what you'd expect. It's not a lucky charm, a special time of day they enter, or a sixth sense for which giveaways are about to pay out. It's usually something closer to a shrug...

Most sweepstakes participants evaluate a contest by looking at the prize and asking one question: do I want this? That's a completely reasonable starting point. But there's a second question worth asking that most participants never think to consider, and it turns out...