Referral lucky draw

One draw

There is one draw for every prize pool. Winners from all prize pools are announced on our Instagram, @theunideals, on 2 November 2026. They are also revealed live on theunideals.com on 2 November 2026 at 8 pm Pakistan time.

Prize pools

• 5
  5 to 14 verified referrals3 winners of Rs 1,000
• 15
  15 to 39 verified referrals1 winner of Rs 3,000
• 40
  40 or more verified referrals1 grand prize winner of a smartwatch worth Rs 10,000 to 15,000

• The Rs 1,000 and Rs 3,000 prizes are paid as money to the winner's account. Winners reply with their account details.

Entries

You get one entry per verified referral, up to 50, in the one prize pool your referrals reach. With 20 verified referrals, for example, you have 20 entries in the Rs 3,000 pool and none in the Rs 1,000 pool.

One prize per person

The grand prize is drawn first, then the Rs 3,000 prize, then the Rs 1,000 prizes. You are in one pool only, so nobody wins more than one prize.

When a referral counts

A referral counts when your friend signs up with your link by 30 October 2026 and is verified as a student by 31 October 2026, 11:59 pm Pakistan time. Friends who sign up later, or are verified later, do not count toward this draw.

You can see your own verified and pending referrals under Refer friends on your profile and in The Uni Deals app.

Fair play

• It is free to enter. No purchase is needed.
• One account per student.
• Fake, duplicate or self-referred accounts are removed, and their entries are voided.

Winners

We may contact winners by email. A winner has 7 days to reply; after that, a new winner is drawn for that prize.

Winners are announced by first initial, surname and campus.

How the draw works

1. Seal. After the draw closes, we seal it, once. Every eligible student gets an anonymous entry id, with one entry per verified referral, up to 50, in the one pool their verified referrals reach highest: 40 or more in the 40 pool only, 15 to 39 in the 15 pool only, 5 to 14 in the 5 pool only.
2. Commit. The full entry list is turned into a fingerprint with SHA-256, and the fingerprint is published. At the same moment we fix a drand round: the public random number due at or after the reveal time. Nobody, us included, knows that number until it is out.
3. Draw. At the reveal we read that random number from drand. Prizes are drawn in order: the grand prize from the 40 pool, the Rs 3,000 prize from the 15 pool, then 3 Rs 1,000 prizes from the 5 pool. For each pick, everyone still in the running holds as many tickets as their entries in that pool, and the random number picks one ticket. A winner is left out of every later pick, so nobody wins twice. A pool with no one left has no winner.
4. Redraw. A winner who does not reply in 7 days is replaced with a fresh pick from the next drand round, leaving out every current and past winner.

Who runs the draw

The draw is run by The Uni Deals, which is operated by Avenith, a company registered in Pakistan. Questions about the draw go to hello@theunideals.com.

Apple is not a sponsor of, or involved in, this draw.