Spot the Ball
Place your star where you think the ball was.
Spot the Ball prizes
Instant wins. Every prize below is allocated to a ticket number before the competition opens, and is not affected by how you play. The separate leaderboard prizes for your score are listed in “About this competition”.
- £10,000 Cash1 of 1 still to be won
- £1,000 Cash2 of 2 still to be won
- £100 Cash7 of 10 still to be won
- £5 Site Credit188 of 250 still to be won
About this competition
Spot the Ball One photograph, one ball removed, and your judgement against everyone else's. The game The Pools has been running since 1923.
How it works: Every entry lets you place one cross on the pitch. Study the players' eyelines, the keeper's stance and where the shadows fall, then put your cross where you think the ball was — the coordinate under each one is exactly what gets submitted. Buy more entries to place more crosses and cover more of the box.
Leaderboard prizes: on top of the main prize, the top five on the leaderboard win site credit based on their final ranking when the competition closes.
- 1st Place — £50 Site Credit
- 2nd Place — £25 Site Credit
- 3rd Place — £15 Site Credit
- 4th Place — £10 Site Credit
- 5th Place — £5 Site Credit
The judging panel decides the ball's position after entries close, so there is no answer to look up and no photograph to reverse-search. Where two or more entrants tie, all tied entrants receive the prize for that position.
Good luck — and trust your eye.
- How the winner is decided
- A panel of three independent judges decides the ball's position after entries close. The mark nearest that point wins. The panel's decision is final and the judges' full names are available on request.
- Odds
- Skill — the nearest mark wins
- Closing
- Judged Monday 8pm, winner published Tuesday