Advent calendar competitions have become very popular online over the last 10 years or so. The premise is simple - each day during advent a prize or promotion is put on offer for just 24 hours. As online gaming has become popular bingo sites and gaming sites have taken up the advent calendar competition format. 2009 promises to carry on the bingo and gaming site advent tradition, but we have to say were a tad disappointed with the advent competition from Game Village. There are loads of nice prizes on offer like hampers, coffee makers, TVs and cash, but the bad news is that entry costs £1.50.
The reason for this is that rather than offer up prizes in a daily prize draw or for playing a game they've opted for an SMS entry instant win competition. You answer the question and you're then given a code if you're right to see if you win a prize. You must be a registered GameVillage player to claim any prize by the way.
There's no indication of the odds of winning a prize, but you are only limited to a maximum spend of £30 worth of entries each day.
We are expecting to see almost 100 different advent competitions this year and possibly 10-20 running on bingo sites. Many of these will be free to play and prize draws and that may mean interested parties will shun this instant win premium rate set up. Let us know if you do win with the Game Village Advent Competition.
