# How to prove a giveaway was fair

https://aicommentexporter.com/prove-a-giveaway-is-fair/

Draw with a picker that saves the list of entries before it makes the random seed, and publish the result page. Ours lists your rules, every entry, the winners, the seed and a fingerprint of the list; anyone can re-run the math in their browser and get the same winners, and every draw on the same post is listed, so drawing again until a friend wins would show.

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## Step by step

1. **Publish the rules before the draw**: Entrants should know the deadline and what counts as an entry before anyone wins.
2. **Draw on the picker**: The entries are saved first, with your rules; then the server makes the seed and the winners come from it.
3. **Share the result page**: Put its link in the announcement, a pinned comment or your bio. It shows the rules, entries, winners, seed and fingerprint.
4. **Let anyone check**: The page has a check button that re-runs the draw in the browser from the saved entries and seed. The JSON download has the same data for anyone who wants to check it elsewhere.

## Why this convinces people

- The seed can't be chosen to suit the list, because the list is fixed before the seed exists.
- Every draw saved for the same post shows on the page, so a quiet re-draw can't be hidden.
- Entrants can search the entry list for their own name and see they were in it.

## Other habits that help

- Say the draw time in advance and draw then.
- Use backups in the order they were drawn, and say so if the first winner didn't reply.
- Contact the winner only from your own account, and say publicly that you never ask winners for payment or card details.

## Questions

**Is a screen recording enough?** A recording shows a wheel spinning, not that the list was complete or the result wasn't re-done. A page with the entry list, seed and draw history can be checked by anyone afterwards.

**Can entrants check they were in the draw?** Yes. The result page lists every entry by name, so anyone can search it for their own.

Updated 2026-11-14.

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