the risk of being caught by the GA, If questions are too simple to deter most commonly as a lottery. This a significant proportion of potential means it’s important to structure participants, or to eliminate a prize competitions so that they don’t significant proportion of entrants fall within the definition of a ‘lottery’ from receiving a prize, they will fail the – these are illegal under the GA ‘skill’ requirement. The Commission unless the organiser has an operating has given the following advice: licence or falls into one of the (very ‘The more questions or clues that limited) exemptions. Lotteries can have to be solved, or the more include raffles, sweepstakes and obscure or specialist the subject, the some competitions. more likely it is that application of the ‘Skill’ requirement statutory test leads to the conclusion that the competition is not a lottery.’ A prize contest will not be deemed a lottery if it satisfies the ‘skill’ A question such as ‘In what country requirement (see below) or if would you find London?’ would there is no payment requirement almost certainly be deemed too to enter. Under the GA, the ‘skill’ simple. The Commission has not, requirement is satisfied if the prize however, issued guidance on what contest contains a requirement to would be deemed a ‘significant exercise skill or judgement or to proportion’, apart from that the display knowledge, and where it can expression should be given ‘its reasonably be expected that the ordinary, natural meaning’. requirement prevents a significant Free to enter proportion of: If a prize contest does not meet the potential participants from ‘skill’ requirement, it will be a lottery entering, or (and therefore unlawful) unless: entrants from receiving a prize. no payment is required to enter (whether this is to participate in 144