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- Oct 7, 2004
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This is to answer the question about Canadians and the skill test requirement concerning contests:
"In Canada, if you win a contest, you haven’t actually ‘won’ yet. First, you have to complete a skill-testing question. Usually this is a straight-forward math question that anybody who remembers their orders of operation from grade 8 could answer. For example:
2 * (18-4) + 4 = ?
It’s a peculiarity of Canadian law:
Under the Criminal Code, it is illegal to hold a lottery without a licence. Giving away a prize based on chance alone — a random draw, for instance — is considered a form of lottery. The contest industry invented the skill-testing question to get around that restriction. If a contest includes an element of skill, it is no longer considered purely a game of chance.
The law doesn't force companies to have a skill testing question, it's just that the company can avoid having to get a lottery license if they have a test of skill as part of the contest. So if anyone should be accused of discrimination, it's the company holding the contest, but then again that is a little silly since it's really up to them what the requirements for winning a prize should be."
"In Canada, if you win a contest, you haven’t actually ‘won’ yet. First, you have to complete a skill-testing question. Usually this is a straight-forward math question that anybody who remembers their orders of operation from grade 8 could answer. For example:
2 * (18-4) + 4 = ?
It’s a peculiarity of Canadian law:
Under the Criminal Code, it is illegal to hold a lottery without a licence. Giving away a prize based on chance alone — a random draw, for instance — is considered a form of lottery. The contest industry invented the skill-testing question to get around that restriction. If a contest includes an element of skill, it is no longer considered purely a game of chance.
The law doesn't force companies to have a skill testing question, it's just that the company can avoid having to get a lottery license if they have a test of skill as part of the contest. So if anyone should be accused of discrimination, it's the company holding the contest, but then again that is a little silly since it's really up to them what the requirements for winning a prize should be."
