$50,000 Sweepstakes and Daily Mobile Prizes From Solow

July 17th, 2008

Solow claims to be “The Ultimate Prize Game for Your Mobile Phone.”  If that doesn’t get your attention, Solow is sponsoring a $50,000 cash sweepstakes this summer, with drawings in July, August and September.   To compete for the $50,000 Grand Prize, you have to sign up at www.solow.com and start playing.   For every game you play between now and September 18, 2008, you will automatically receive one entry into the Sweepstakes.  What’s the deal?   Read on.

Once you register your mobile phone number at www.solow.com, you can play to win a variety of prizes by entering up to 20 numbers per game.  If your entry turns out to be the lowest unique number for that game, you win!  Recent prizes offered by Solow include $100 in cash, a $100 gift card for travel on Southwest Airlines, a $100 gas card, Virgin Music Festival concert tickets, and a $100 gift card for products at Sephora.  These contests are all free to enter (except for the cost of text messaging if you are guessing from your mobile phone)—but beware of the games that say $.99 per guess; the prizes are bigger, but that extra charge will add up to a shockingly large phone bill if you max out your 20 guesses for each game.  

Recent prizes offered by Solow include $100 in cash, a $100 gift card for travel on Southwest Airlines, a $100 gas card, Virgin Music Festival concert tickets, and a $100 gift card for products at Sephora.

The Solow text messaging option lets you check on how you are doing in a particular game or make a new guess based on in-game updates and hints.  You can text your next guess to 23687 at any time during the game (games can last from a few days to a few weeks).   Unless you opt for No Hints when you register, you will get text message updates from Solow on your standing in each game—for example, if your unique number is bumped by another player, you will find out via text message and have another chance to guess.  

If you have ever tried to guess the lowest unique number for a www.Limbo.com contest, the Solow game play will seem very, very familiar.   How does Solow make money from giving away cash prizes?   One method is to offer hard core gaming fans a Solow Elite subscription.   This will cost you $9.99 a month – in return, Elite status will let you enter all the premium games without paying the $.99 per guess fee.  

Recently, Limbo has expanded its focus from just games to offer a mobile social community with new communication and location features for its millions of registered gamer members.  It will be interesting to see if the members who joined Limbo for the simpler pleasures of guessing to win via text will migrate to Solow.  

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