Official rules

You must be 18 or older and live where taking part is allowed. One account per person. We may ask you to confirm your age and identity before we ship a prize.

Accounts that use bots, share seats between accounts or abuse promotions may be closed, and their entries voided.

Coins are a closed-loop play currency used for seats and boosts. They have no cash value and can't be cashed out, sold, transferred or exchanged for anything outside Get Hot Drop.

Bonus coins (sign-up, invites, daily bonus, promo codes) are spent before bought coins. They can pay all of a boost. On seats, bonus coins can pay at most 25% of a lot's seat fees in total, and never so much that the bought coins in the lot fall below the prize's fair price. A referral reward is paid once the invited player takes a seat paid at least partly with bought coins and that lot fills. We may change how bonus coins are given, and may set an expiry with notice.

Each lot is one product with a fixed number of seats at one price, shown on the lot page before you join. You can hold one seat per lot. Seats are numbered in the order they are taken.

When the last seat is taken, the auction is set, by default 24 hours later. Every round plays that evening, back to back: each opens with 60 seconds to boost, then the wheel spins. The lot page shows the exact time.

Each lot keeps the rules in force when it was created (its seat price, its cuts, its boost prices and when boosts close), listed on the lot page under “All the rules”. Later changes to these rules apply to new lots only.

Each round spins a weighted wheel. Slices are laid out in seat order, each as wide as the player's weight: 1 for a seat, plus 0.5 for each boost unit bought for that round (at most 500 a round).

In a cut round the wheel spins once and stops under a window, an arc over the pointer. The window covers 25–45% of the wheel in round 1 and 30–45% in round 2. Its exact size within that range is drawn with the spin, and it is always longer than the biggest slice. Every player whose slice touches the window goes through, however little of the slice is inside; everyone else is out. At least two players always go through, and how many varies from round to round. A player's chance to go through is about the window's average share of the wheel plus their own slice's share.

A lot has at most two cut rounds, fixed when it is created: another cut is planned while more than 5 players are projected to remain (the players in the round times the window's average share, rounded down, plus one). Everyone left after the last cut plays the final, where the wheel spins once and picks one winner. Each player's chance to win the final is their slice's share of the wheel.

Relics can add perks: luck multiplies a seat's weight by up to ×1.10 in total, and cashback returns up to 10% of the seat as bonus coins when it is out.

Every spin is derived from a secret seed committed by its hash before the lot opens and revealed after the round, so anyone can replay it. The method is described in full under Checking a draw. Each round's boosts sell in its window, 60 seconds before the spin.

If a lot is not full by its deadline (by default 7 days after it opens), it is cancelled and every seat is refunded in full, as the same kind of coins that paid for it. The same applies if we cancel a lot for any other reason. Seats are not refunded for getting through a round or for losing one.

The winner gets the product shown on the lot page, new and sealed, or one of equal or greater value if it is no longer available. Prizes can't be exchanged for coins or cash.

The winner claims the prize by giving a delivery name, address and phone number from their account. We ship at our cost and share tracking once it is on its way. Claim window and shipping regions: to be confirmed.

On lots that have one, players who are out may be shown a discount from a partner shop. Those offers are run by the partner under their own terms. We may earn a commission when you use one.

We may update these rules and will say so here before changes take effect. If something goes wrong with a lot, we may cancel it and refund every seat in full.