Automated Draws take place shortly after the draw time specified on the competition page. Here’s how they work:
To see this in action, you can follow these steps:
<?php mt_srand(1234560987123); echo mt_rand(1, 1000);
You’ll get “55” as the result. Changing the seed or the range will give you different numbers.
In our Automated Draws, we use:
At the time of the draw:
To summarise, the Automated Draw process involves
This randomness is introduced through: