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Entries close at 10:41 UTC: the cut-off explained
Every draw stops taking tickets thirty minutes before it runs. What the cut-off is, what happens to a ticket bought after it, and how to see the time in your own zone.
Thirty minutes before the draw
Each day’s draw runs at 11:11 UTC and stops taking tickets at 10:41 UTC. Anything bought up to that second is in the draw; nothing after it is. The cut-off never moves, and it is the same every day of the year.
Why there is a cut-off
The half hour between close and draw is when a draw’s tickets are fixed and nothing more can be added or changed. It means every ticket in a draw was bought under exactly the same conditions, and nobody can buy into a draw at the last moment.
After the cut-off
Once today’s draw has closed, it no longer appears in the list of draws you can choose, and the next open draw is selected instead. Draws for the coming days are open in advance, so you can buy for tomorrow, or for several days ahead, at any time.
Seeing it on your own clock
The dashboard shows a countdown to the next cut-off, and every time in the app is shown in your own time zone as well as in UTC. If you like to buy close to the wire, the countdown is the thing to watch: it is always right, wherever you are and whatever the season.