Vortex Group

Free Play Draw

Sandbox VR Toronto & Sandbox VR Vancouver · entries close at month end · drawn at the start of the following 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.

Winners

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

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. Earned on paid visits, redeemable Sunday to Thursday — see the rules.

July 2026 — the entry lists

The July entry lists for both stores are closed and locked. Their fingerprints were published before the numbers that pick the winners were drawn, so the lists cannot be changed and the outcome cannot be steered. You can download them and check for yourself.

Entries cover 1 July to 31 July 2026. Every entry was checked against our booking records — an entry counts only if it belongs to a real visit, and no booking can produce more entries than it had guests.

The downloadable list carries a position, an entry number and the date of the visit, so that a winner can recognise their own entry. It carries no names and no contact details. The full list, which does include names and email addresses, is held by Vortex Group and is not published: it holds other guests' personal information and they did not agree to that. We will produce it to a privacy regulator or a court, to our professional advisors, and — for their own entry only — to an entrant who asks.

How the draw works

Anyone should be able to check that we did not pick the winners ourselves. So the draw runs in three steps, and each one is published.

1. The list is frozen and fingerprinted. When the month closes we lock the list of entries and publish a SHA-256 hash of it — a fingerprint that changes completely if even one character of the list changes. We cannot alter the list afterwards without the fingerprint no longer matching.
2. The numbers come from Lotto Max. The seed is built from the seven main numbers — bonus excluded — of the first Lotto Max draw held after the list is frozen: sorted lowest to highest, written as two digits, joined with hyphens. Those numbers did not exist when we published the fingerprint, and they are drawn on national television, so we could not have chosen them.
   For July, the list was frozen on 9 August, so that is the draw of Tuesday 11 August 2026.
3. The winners are computed, and can be recomputed. The seed is SHA-256( full_list_hash + "|" + numbers ), worked out separately for each store so the two draws are independent. Then, starting from that store's full list of 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. Toronto's places 1 and 2 win and Vancouver's place 1 wins; the rest are substitutes, used in order only if a winner is ineligible or does not claim within fourteen days.

Each month's fingerprints, numbers, seed and result all appear on this page, alongside the winners.

Questions

The full rules — eligibility, prizes, odds and the free entry method — are at freeplaydraw.sandboxvr.ca/rules.

Anything else: freeplaydraw@sandboxvr.ca.