How To Play

BOTB is the longest-running competition website in the UK. Established in 1999, we have guaranteed winners every week in the Dream Car Competition and our other competitions. 

The About section shows who works here, as well as information about who is on the Board of Directors and details of our lawyers, auditors, and financial advisers.

BOTB is based in south-west London. Our head Office address is 2 Plato Place, 72-74 St Dionis Road, London SW6 4TU. We used to be in 26 different airports and shopping centres, but we have now moved fully online. From time to time, you can also find us at big motoring events such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed!

Over one million people have won a prize in BOTB competitions and counting!

Meet some of our latest winners.

Tickets currently range from around 50p to £6, depending on the competition and prize you’re playing for. We regularly offer even cheaper tickets – including free prizes – so keep an eye out for discounts and special offers!

You can buy the following number of tickets in each of our main competitions:

- Dream Car: 75 

- 48hr Lifestyle: 300 

- Instant Wins: 600

We’ll automatically email you confirmation of your order and competition entries immediately after entering.

If it’s your first time playing, you'll also receive an email confirming your account login details and welcoming you to our community.

The My Competitions page details the competitions you've entered, their status, and results.

Game Credit is a virtual currency you can earn or win in various ways. For instance, you can win Game Credit by entering one of our regular social media competitions, referring a friend, or placing tickets in zones 1-5 on the Spot the Ball image in the Dream Car Competition.

You can enter our competitions for free with enough Game Credit or use it for part payment. It is automatically deducted from your account at checkout with any qualifying purchase.

Please note: Game Credit cannot be withdrawn as cash. It doesn’t last for long – so be sure to use it before you lose it – check your Account for expiry details.

Here’s our competition schedule in UK time:

- Dream Car: runs from Monday to Sunday, with results announced Tuesday.

- 48hr Lifestyle: runs from Monday to Tuesday, with results announced Friday.

- Instant Wins: The first weekly Instant Wins Competition runs from Wednesday to Thursday, and the second from Friday to Sunday. End prize results announced Monday and Wednesday.

You can also check the live countdown on each competition and prize page to see when they end. Alternatively, visit the My Competitions page in your account to find out when the draw for any competitions you've entered will take place.

We do – with your help! We’re always on the lookout for new prizes to add to the line-up. 

If you have a suggestion, please do get in touch by emailing info@botb.com.

In the Dream Car and 48hr Lifestyle competitions, you have hundreds of different prizes to choose from, but if you win, you'll only receive the prize linked to your winning ticket.

Meanwhile, thousands of prizes are up for grabs in every Instant Wins Competition, so each ticket you buy might snag you an extra prize!

Yes, when you win, you can choose to take a hefty tax-free cash alternative. In fact, lots of winners take the cash to spend on buying a home, renovations, or their dream holiday.

You can find the specified cash alternative listed on every prize page. 

Some prizes also come with additional cash, which you’ll receive in full, no matter your final decision.

Absolutely! Most cars can be supplied with right or left-hand drive. Please see the full terms and conditions for further information.

Yes! For Dream Car and 48hr Lifestyle Competition winners, BOTB will pay up to £1,500 towards insurance costs and up to £400 for servicing depending on the value of the vehicle.

While cars won in the Instant Wins Competition come with a valid MOT, insurance and servicing are not included.

For more information, please refer to the T&Cs.

Yes, you can win any of our competitions even if you don’t live in the UK.

As a UK-based company, approximately 90% of our players are from the UK, so as you would expect, about 90% of our winners are also from the UK.

Nevertheless, we’ve had winners from every continent in the world, so don’t be put off playing if you live outside the UK!

Dream Car and 48hr Lifestyle Competition winners will be pleased to learn that we deliver prizes anywhere in the world, absolutely free of charge, with UK VAT covered. 

Sometimes, it might be more cost-effective to opt for a cash alternative and purchase the car locally – which we can help with! There may be other import, registration, or luxury goods duties in certain countries, which generally we do not pay for.

We do not deliver instant win prizes overseas, but you can still look forward to receiving a cash reward worth 30% more than the car’s cash alternative.

See our terms and conditions for more details on deliveries, taxes, and cash alternative options.

We check all prices and specs every quarter. Currently, specifications, reviews, RRP, and prize availability in our competitions are correct as of July 2024. 

We try our best to ensure all prize information is accurate but we cannot be held responsible for slight inaccuracies due to manufacturers adjusting details without notice.

Spot the Ball is a football-themed game in which you must find the centre of a missing ball in a photograph.

Your chosen points will be recorded as coordinates (x,y), stored in our database, and saved in your account. If you pick the closest coordinates to our independent panel of judges, we’ll be turning up at your front door with your dream car.

We use Spot the Ball to determine the winner of the Dream Car Competition because it's widely recognised, easy to enter, and, most importantly, good fun! Using a skill-based game rather than a lottery or raffle ensures that every competition is legitimate and fair.

At the end of the Dream Car Competition, the same Spot the Ball picture you used to choose your coordinates is shown to a judging panel composed of professional sporting experts.

In the presence of an independent lawyer, they mark where they think the centre of the ball should be. The winner is the person who is closest to the judged position.

PromoVeritas, the UK's leading independent promotional verification service, selects the winner at random for our other competitions.

We like to use a panel of judges to ensure nobody ever knows the ball's original position to keep our competitions fair, transparent, and legally compliant. This way, the game relies on the entrant's skill rather than the chance that the original spot on the photograph is selected.

In the Dream Car Competition there can only be one car winner. If a case arises where two or more players are equally close to the judges position, the winner will be determined by calculating the next closest entry of the players in question. The person with the closest second ticket is then the outright winner. If any player in this equidistant scenario has only one ticket, all players that qualify will participate in another Spot the Ball competition online to determine the outright winner.

All equidistant players who do not win outright, will receive £1,000 in cash. Please be sure to read the full terms and conditions.

To ensure absolute fairness, Spot the Ball judging is a subjective process — and it has to be by law. 

You may not agree with the Judges every week, but many others will, including the guaranteed winners. 

Our panel of professional judges do the best job they can, and we ask you to consider that they are fair and logical over a good period of time, even if you occasionally think the ball should be somewhere else in the image.