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About Publishers Clearing House

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Publishers Clearing House is a direct marketing company that markets magazine subscriptions and some merchandise, including kitchen gadgets, with sweepstakes and prize-based games. Its casino-style games include slots, keno, quizzes, scratch-offs, solitaire and others.

Pros
  • Daily sweepstakes
  • Friendly service
  • Free to enter
Cons
  • Marketing overload
  • Slim odds

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What is Publishers Clearing House?

Publishers Clearing House is a sweepstakes and marketing company. Since it was founded, Publishers Clearing House has awarded more than $483 million in prizes.

The company awards between $3 million to more than $13 million in prizes annually, and at least $10,000 in major prizes are awarded each month. The SuperPrizes that range from $1 million to $10 million are awarded at least three times per year. In addition to cash prizes, the company awards winning entrants with cars, computers, gift cards and more.

How does Publishers Clearing House work?

You can enter to win Publishers Clearing House contests online, by phone and by mail. You can play games and enter the sweepstakes online through mobile devices, tablets or desktop computers. The company’s suite of digital properties receives more than 5 million daily visits and around 2 billion monthly page views. According to the company, someone wins a prize every 10 minutes, and you can enter to win daily.

Entrants must be 18 years or older, and no purchase is necessary to enter or win a prize in any amount. Players who choose to purchase magazine subscriptions or merchandise do not receive an advantage over those who do not make a purchase. Shopper benefits include installment pricing, special offers, frequent discounts and a 100% satisfaction guaranteed policy.

Is Publishers Clearing House free?

Publishers Clearing House does not charge its players to enter sweepstakes or play games, and there is no fee to collect a prize. You can purchase a variety of products and merchandise that range in price, however.

If a company contacts you claiming to be Publishers Clearing House and requesting money to claim a prize, it is most likely a scam.

Publishers Clearing House FAQ

How does Publishers Clearing House notify winners?
Publishers Clearing House awards prizes throughout the year. Major prize award winners and SuperPrize winners are notified in person by the company’s Prize Patrol, while runner-up winners are notified by overnight express carrier or email.
What happens if you win Publishers Clearing House and you’re not home?
The Prize Patrol will locate its winners at home, at the office or even on vacation. The team once waited for an entire weekend for a winner to return home.
Where does Publishers Clearing House money come from?
Prizes awarded by Publishers Clearing House are funded by company revenue earned from merchandise and magazine offers. No purchase is necessary to enter to win.
Does anybody really win Publishers Clearing House?
Yes. The sweepstakes is legitimate, but the big prizes are sought by so many people that the odds of winning are slim. According to its website, there is a prize awarded about every 10 minutes.

Is Publishers Clearing House real?

It’s rare to be able to enter to win cash prizes with no purchase necessary, but Publishers Clearing House offers that opportunity. The company does have some merchandise and magazine subscription offers with customer perks, but buying products does not increase your chances of winning. While Publishers Clearing House is legitimate, it does send its subscribers lots of marketing communication, and the overall odds of winning large prizes are small.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2025

    If you love commercials and don't expect to ever win anything, PBS is where you want to be. For one entry of a particular contest, there were 5 commercials. Even when you cash in your tokens, you have to sit through a commercial or 2. You should at least get some sort of a token prize just for having to endure all the commercials.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2025

    Don't trust PCH Games. AVOID Publishers Clearing House, everyone. They are infected with viruses and malware. 🙁 Their games are EXTREMELY crooked and rigged, and their, so-called phony sweepstakes odds are at best 1 in 2.4 billion! They should be forced out of business, and their executives locked up in jail! 🙁

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      Reviewed Jan. 31, 2025

      I've been a customer of PCH since I was a child... I've had and have accounts with pch. I had to prove I could win. I've been called by clients that told me they played token games and spent over 2 billion tokens trying to win in every type of offer available, and nothing. And that's per year. I wrote a program that generates tokens at a ridiculous rate. And another one to enter high end prize, and cash contests. Nothing. This is just fact. And it's totally sad the ftc, and the usag, and each state ag haven't shut these guys down ages ago. Plus their product are crap, all from foreign countries that aren't usa. If you see a usa label, that was made by china to put on their products. Now there are so many companies stealing money, and selling our info to other countries. It's insane, and should be illegal.

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      Reviewed Jan. 27, 2025

      This is about the third time I was listed as top token earner over the years that I didn't get paid for.. They are not posting daily winners. Anyone else have this issue? I am starting to question why I go through this every day. Doing the same thing every day and getting the same results is the definition of insanity.

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      Reviewed Jan. 2, 2025

      Been playing since age 13 and now 39 years old... Have only won 5 dollars since...2008... Odds are really bad hints why it's free, don't spend no money here because they say it's a none factor to win even though many people who have won before have won many more times than that one time.... Doesn't seem randomly drawn. I have also notice they don't timestamp or show a timestamp with date for spending tokens on entries. So I have entered 75K and 15K prize. 15K I checked to see how many entries I've done in Token Activity when logged in. It shows my tokens were spent but not on what in some inconstant way of showing it.

      I've done 600 entries at 5k tokens per entry for the 15K dollars to be rewarded after Jan 2 2025.... says on friday and the 75K dollars prize ended with no winners. I guess having spent 800 entries at 10K token per entry. It's not transparent nor a live drawing so who's to say it really legit. Getting the tokens come to a trickle when you have a lot of the from my account and if you enter in only one thing it doesn't seem to annotate a time of entry, date, and show the amount spent at that time within the Token Activity area. It's not showing my recent entries for the 15K dollars prize... It's just showing a dip in my tokens of 1 Million tokens gone on one page where 25K are left and not showing they were spent on entries for the 15K dollars prize. They making seem as if my tokens just vanished and not for what. The 15K dollar prize got like 6 hours before it closes so not sure why its not showing me getting 600 entries for it.

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      Sales & Marketing

      Reviewed Nov. 24, 2024

      PCH Rigs who if any win. I enter daily but in the last 12 months they started blocking your entries 7 days before it closes. They manipulate if anyone wins. Their history shows they don't. What a scam.

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      Reviewed Sept. 15, 2024

      I have been entering PCH contests for 23 years and have won three small cash prizes, so I know they are not a scam despite the claims on this website. However, PCH’s website is a piece of crap! I get links in the email that don’t work, and their customer service is less than supportive with “self-help” options. When you exhaust those options, they don’t have any other answers for you. They ask you to go through the steps even though you tell them you did those already! It’s like they are reading from a rehearsed script. The games page often freezes up, and the quizzes page is bombarded with advertisements that make the page bounce around.

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      Reviewed Aug. 30, 2024

      I'm just saying don't waste your money. They're going to keep milking you and you'll never win you'd be better off going to the casino. These people are liars. All they want is your money. Take my advice. I've been doing this since 2012. I've never won nothing but I want you to know you're not going to win nothing either. They just want your money then you're going to buy products that you really don't like so do yourself a big favor and put your money somewhere else. These people are liars and they're thieves

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      Reviewed Aug. 12, 2024

      Too many ads and ads that have three to five levels to watch before entering portals. Also, the Night Island gives tokens then takes them back. I should have at least 10 million more tokens but Night Island took all back from the beginning and all following days. NOTHING!!!

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      Online & App

      Reviewed July 5, 2024

      The PCH+ app is very quirky. It doesn't add weekly entries correctly. Sometimes it credits more but most times it's less. At least a couple of times a day, it will skip games within worlds or repeat the same game just played. When it gives a 'Submit Error', the app should credit the player the maximum number of tokens and weekly entries. Sometimes it repeats the game, but more times it just moves to the next game. I have hundreds of screenshots showing the mentioned errors. The issues need to be fixed ASAP. And should be completely tested before being rolled out to the public.

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      Publishers Clearing House Company Information

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