Bonus Entry
A bonus entry is an extra entry you can earn by completing an optional action that the rules say is worth an entry: sharing a post, answering a question, signing up to a newsletter, or referring a friend where referrals are allowed. The base entry gets you into the draw; bonus entries increase how many of your entries sit in it. Because they are optional and reward-specific, they are also where most entrants accidentally break the rules.
The tasks organizers usually offer
Common ones include following or subscribing, liking or sharing a specific post, tagging another account, uploading user-generated content, watching a short video, voting in a related round, or unlocking an extra entry each day within the entry period. Each should have its own instruction line in the rules, sometimes phrased as "additional entries" rather than "bonus," which is why searching the text for both words pays off.
Caps are the part people miss
Rules normally cap how many entries one person may have, per day and across the whole promotion. A daily limit and a total limit often apply at the same time, and completing every task does not help once you hit the ceiling. Read the cap before you start working through tasks, and count as you go. Earning entries past the limit is not a clever loophole; entries beyond the cap are commonly voided, and a repeated pattern can cost you the whole entry record.
What counts as completed
Assume the organizer checks. Referral entries usually need the referred person to do something real, not just receive a link. Subscription entries usually need a confirmed address. Social actions usually need to remain visible and come from an account that meets the platform's own age and account rules. Deleting a post the next day, or completing tasks from throwaway accounts, is the sort of behavior that looks different in a log than it looked on screen.
A worked example
Suppose the rules allow one entry per day plus one bonus entry per day for watching a daily video, capped at thirty entries total. Entering daily for the full period and watching every video gets you to thirty. Referring six friends adds nothing, because the rules never listed referrals as a bonus task. Spending effort on an unlisted task is wasted work, and if the extra submissions came from second accounts, they are entries you did not need and could not keep.
Keep a simple record
Bonus entries spread across days and platforms are easy to lose track of. Note the promotion name, the cap, what you completed, and the dates. Screenshots of a confirmation screen are useful when a form silently failed to credit an entry, and they give you something concrete to reference if you contact the organizer named in the rules.
Common misconception
The belief that bonus entries are essentially free odds, so maximizing them by any means available is rational. Rules usually attach conditions that erase that logic: caps, verification, account limits, and a general ban on unfair methods. The reliable version of the strategy is dull: complete the listed tasks on the accounts you legitimately control, stay under the cap, and stop there.
Key takeaways
- A bonus entry is an extra entry earned by doing an optional task the rules name.
- Find the entry cap first; work past it is wasted and can void entries.
- Tasks usually require a real, verifiable completion, not a quick click.
- Track dates and caps as you go so you can prove what you completed.
- Tasks not listed in the rules do not earn anything, however reasonable they seem.