Has Anyone Won Omaze With a Free Entry?

Why a free-entry winner is statistically expected

Every Omaze draw combines paid entries and free postal entries into one pool. The winner is selected at random from this combined pool. There is no separate tier for free entrants, no weighting in favour of paid entries, and no minimum spend required to be eligible.

As a purely illustrative example: if a draw received, say, 100,000 free postal entries against 2,000,000 paid individual entries, the total pool would be 2,100,000 entries. The probability of any one specific free entry winning would be exactly 1 in 2,100,000 — the same as any single paid entry. But with 100,000 free entries in that pool, the probability that at least one of them is the winner works out at roughly 4.5% for that single draw. Repeated across dozens of draws, a free-entry winner becomes close to certain. Omaze does not publish the actual number of free entries it receives per draw, so these figures are for illustration only, not a real draw’s data.

The question is not whether a free-entry winner could happen — the maths makes it likely across enough draws. The question is whether any specific case has been publicly confirmed.

Has Omaze confirmed a free-entry winner?

Omaze does not publish which entry route — free or paid — produced any given winner, and we have not found a specific, reliably sourced case naming a free-entry winner. What Omaze does confirm, in its own FAQs, is that every entry, regardless of method, is logged into the same draw database and “has exactly the same chance of being picked to win” (Omaze UK FAQs, omaze.co.uk). That is a direct statement of equal treatment, even without a named example. If you are looking for a specific case, the most reliable places to check are Omaze’s own winners page and regional press coverage of individual draws, since Omaze does not flag entry method in its announcements.

Does Omaze treat free and paid entries differently in the draw?

No. The terms and conditions of every Omaze draw state that free postal entries are entered into the draw on the same terms as paid entries. They are not filtered, weighted or capped at a disadvantageous rate.

This equal treatment is also a legal and regulatory expectation, not just a marketing claim. Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, Omaze’s free-entry route must be genuine — if free entries were systematically disadvantaged relative to paid entries, the draw’s legal status as a prize competition (rather than an unlicensed lottery) could be called into question. The government’s Voluntary Code of Good Practice for Prize Draw Operators, which Omaze has signed and which took effect on 20 May 2026, goes further and states explicitly that entries via the free route or the paid route “should have an equal chance of winning each available prize” (gov.uk).

Separately, the Advertising Standards Authority has previously upheld a complaint against an Omaze advert for not explaining the free-entry route clearly and prominently enough, in breach of CAP Code rules 8.17 and 8.17.2. That ruling was about how the free route was advertised, not about whether free entries actually share the same odds — but it is a reminder that the two issues (disclosure and equal treatment) are both regulated, and both have been tested in practice.

What are the realistic odds for a free-entry attempt?

One free postal entry gives the same odds as one individual paid entry. What changes your overall odds is not the entry method but the number of individual entries you hold: a single free letter gives you one entry, while a paid bundle gives you as many entries as that bundle includes. Check the live draw page on omaze.co.uk for the current entries-per-pound ratio, since it varies by draw.

The free entry’s odds are genuinely worse than a large paid bundle — not because of any different treatment, but because a large bundle contains more individual entries. One letter gives one shot; a large bundle might give dozens of shots. That is a mathematical difference, not discrimination against free entrants.

The cost of a free entry is roughly the price of a second-class stamp, plus a few minutes of your time. The cost of a paid bundle is whatever that bundle costs. Whether the difference in entries justifies the price of a bundle versus the price of a stamp is a calculation only you can make.

For the full process of submitting a free entry — what to write, where to send it and typical processing times — see our guide to the Omaze free entry postal route.

Why doesn’t Omaze advertise free-entry winners more prominently?

There is a commercial reason: Omaze’s revenue comes from paid entries. Prominently promoting the success of free entries could reduce the perceived need to buy. However, Omaze does not hide the existence of the free-entry route — it is disclosed in the terms and conditions of every draw and has occasionally featured in press coverage.

Separately, a free-entry winner may be less willing to participate in Omaze’s marketing activities. Paid entrants who win may feel a greater connection to the brand; someone who won on a single stamp may prefer privacy.

What does this mean in practice?

If you want to enter Omaze with no financial risk, the postal route is there. One stamp gives you one genuine entry. The odds are long — but the same is true of all entries in all draws. The difference is that the downside for a free entrant is trivial, and the upside is the same as for anyone else.

See our full Omaze review for how this fits into our overall assessment of the draw’s value and integrity.