Vortex Group

Free Play Draw

Sandbox VR Toronto & Sandbox VR Vancouver · drawn the 1st of each month

Every month we draw entrants at random to win a free session for up to six guests. Two winners in Toronto, one in Vancouver. This page shows who won and lets anyone check that the draw was fair.

How to enter

Scan the QR code in-store after your visit and answer a few quick questions. One entry per person per visit — everyone in your group can enter.

Come back within two months and enter again, and your entries carry forward. Four entries without a win and your next session is on us.

No purchase necessary. You can also enter for free by email — see section 4(b) of the official rules. A free entry has exactly the same chance of winning.

July 2026 — pool committed, winners on 12 August

The July entry list for Sandbox VR Toronto is closed and locked. Its fingerprint is published below before the numbers that pick the winners have been drawn, so the list can no longer be changed and the outcome cannot be steered. Winners will be published on this page on 12 August 2026.

Pool: Sandbox VR Toronto · July 2026 · 42 entries
SHA-256: d8cd9bda3188d84b9200290d7e2ae6405f267f28a7792a2e4a375101e1462270

Seed source: the seven main numbers — bonus excluded — of the first Lotto Max draw held on or after Tuesday 11 August 2026, sorted lowest to highest, each written as two digits and joined with hyphens. If no Lotto Max draw takes place on or before 18 August 2026, the first Lotto 6/49 draw after that date is used instead and the substitution is recorded here.

Seed: SHA-256( pool_hash + "|" + numbers )

Selection: starting from the full list of 42 positions, for k = 0,1,2,3,4,5 take the entry at index int( SHA-256( seed + ":" + k ), 16 ) mod (positions remaining) and remove it. Places 1 and 2 win; places 3 to 6 are substitutes, used in order only if a winner is ineligible or does not claim within fourteen days.

Published 9 August 2026, three days before the winners are computed and two days before the Lotto Max draw that decides them.

Vancouver is not drawn for July — the Vancouver survey only opened partway through the month, so Vancouver's first Free Play Draw covers August and is drawn in September.

Winners

July's winners appear here on 12 August 2026, alongside the Lotto Max numbers used and the resulting seed, so anyone can repeat the calculation.

How the draw is verified

Anyone should be able to check that we did not pick the winners ourselves. So the draw works like this:

  1. The pool is frozen. When the month closes we take the list of entries and publish a cryptographic hash of it — a short fingerprint that changes completely if even one character of the list changes.
  2. The seed comes from Lotto Max. The random number that picks the winners is built from the seven main numbers in the first Lotto Max draw after the month closes. Those numbers did not exist when we published the fingerprint, and they are drawn on national television — so we could not have chosen them.
  3. The result can be recomputed. Anyone holding the list and the seed can run the same selection and get the same winners.

Publishing the fingerprint before the seed exists is what makes this work: we cannot change the list afterwards without the fingerprint no longer matching, and we cannot choose the seed to favour anyone.

Each month's fingerprint, seed and result appear above, alongside the winners.

Questions

The full rules, including eligibility, prize details, odds and the free entry method, are at freeplaydraw.sandboxvr.ca/rules.

Anything else: freeplaydraw@sandboxvr.ca.