Every regular entrant eventually runs into the same strange situation. You get the notification, your heart jumps, and then you realize the prize is something you have no real use for. Maybe it's a riding lawn mower and you live in an apartment, or...

Most entrants spend their energy figuring out which sweepstakes to enter, how often to enter them, and how to keep track of it all, and almost nobody stops to think about the invisible step in the middle, the moment your entry actually travels from...

Before you fill out a single field on an entry form, there's a piece of information sitting right there in the official rules that tells you more about what to expect than almost anything else on the page, and that's who's actually sponsoring the...