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Win Beats 360 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Live Draw · Draw #2

This draw checks out

Re-running the published method on the evidence below gives the same winning ticket we announced. You can repeat the check yourself.

How the winner was chosen

  1. Entries locked in Entries closed Thu 29 Oct 2026, 7:30pm. The 134 entries in the competition at that moment were locked into the draw and sealed with a fingerprint (Thu 29 Oct 2026, 7:30:04pm).
  2. A secret sealed at the same moment We also sealed a random secret, keeping only its fingerprint, so the secret couldn't be chosen later to suit a result. It is revealed now so you can check it matches.
  3. Public randomness The draw used round 33,499,632 of drand (opens in a new tab), a public randomness beacon run by independent organisations, published Thu 29 Oct 2026, 7:31:00pm — after the entries were locked. Nobody can know it in advance.
  4. One calculation, one answer The locked entries, the secret and the public randomness combine into a seed, and a published method turns that seed into the winning ticket. The same evidence always gives the same winner.

Check it yourself

Your browser downloads the evidence, fetches the public randomness straight from drand, and repeats every step of the calculation. Nothing is taken from us on trust except the evidence itself.

    Technical evidence
    Locked entries
    134
    Entry list
    Every entry in the competition at its close, 2026-10-29 19:30:00 UTC — re-derived by us from the entries' recorded history: matches
    Entry list rule
    close_v2 — each entry counted by the exact moment (UTC) it was acquired
    Entry list fingerprint (SHA-256)
    6bbffd36d598d9c1bf2737e84cb39e593d4e5b2fd4266e80d439baaf970ca113
    Sealed secret fingerprint (SHA-256)
    54acb659ac6c4caef95807949508d0b44d9396a803cd8642cdbe2dcc46ec3baa
    Secret (revealed)
    4895137c26d8f6c2e99bf3b406187df6ae1ee941b735ca73b3f209491d6bca88
    Locked in
    2026-10-29T19:30:04+00:00 UTC
    Randomness
    drand quicknet, chain 52db9ba70e0cc0f6eaf7803dd07447a1f5477735fd3f661792ba94600c84e971, round 33499632 (2026-10-29T19:31:00+00:00) — view on drand (opens in a new tab)
    Randomness value
    a8eb37686eb464dec9aea3da8016036ee7721394218452110b16087e7b8e8fc0
    Signature
    96510e05da52b1a4d02b37b9f3489d94f7100341f3274d930493195b456ef2defee9b2fbe0957ac8651004894a1a9961
    Derived seed
    0096f7581524998e9a8953dfb6bd3770fba1f28617b3a800bcd94de076b68beb
    Eligibility cut-off
    2026-10-29 19:31:00 UTC

    The method (ec-draw-v2 (per-prize, from 4 Sep 2026))

    1. entry_pool_hash = SHA-256 of the locked entry list exactly as published (UTF-8 text).
    2. committed_secret_hash = SHA-256 of the secret's 32 raw bytes.
    3. randomness = drand quicknet round R (public); randomness = SHA-256 of the round's signature bytes.
    4. seed = SHA-256( secret bytes ‖ draw id as decimal text ‖ entry_pool_hash bytes ‖ randomness bytes ).
    5. pool = the locked entry references sorted ascending; N = its size.
    6. For each prize (placement id P), attempt n = 1, 2, …: s = SHA-256( seed bytes ‖ uint32be(P) ) when n = 1, otherwise SHA-256( seed bytes ‖ uint32be(P) ‖ uint32be(n) ).
    7. Stream = SHA-256( s ‖ uint32be(0) ) ‖ SHA-256( s ‖ uint32be(1) ) ‖ …; read 4 bytes at a time as an unsigned big-endian integer v; reject v ≥ 2^32 − (2^32 mod N) and read again; the candidate is pool[ v mod N ] (N ≤ 1: pool[0]).
    8. The first candidate not listed as ineligible before the cut-off wins. After 1,000 ineligible candidates, attempt 1,001 is drawn the same way from the eligible entries only.

    Download the full evidence (JSON) — including the locked entry list, so the fingerprint and the calculation can be reproduced with any tool.

    What this proves — and what it doesn't

    Anyone can confirm that the published entry list matches its fingerprint, that the revealed secret matches its sealed fingerprint, that the randomness is drand's genuine public value for the round, and that the method then gives exactly the announced winning ticket. The moment the entries and secret were sealed is taken from our own records: an independent timestamp of that seal is not yet in place. The list holds anonymous entry references only — no names or account details. To check your own tickets, use Check Your Ticket on the competition page.