Top Saint Paul, MN Cash Prize Sweepstakes With No Purchase Necessary: Safe Entry Guide

Saint Paul adults can enter three current Scratchstakes cash-prize games without making a purchase: Grant My Wishes, Ramses Riches, and $20,000 Dollars Under the Sea. A sweepstakes is a chance-based promotion, so entry creates a chance to win rather than a promised payout. Scratchstakes also lists a daily $100 drawing in its September 2026 cash-game lineup.

Scratchstakes' availability page identifies the games available this month.

Verification note: Program terms and availability can change. This page was checked against linked sources on September 28, 2026.

The current no-purchase cash options

Grant My Wishes offers cash prizes of $5, $250, and $500. Saint Paul residents qualify if they are U.S. or D.C.

residents aged 18 or older, and no purchase is necessary. The larger prize is a long shot: the stated odds for $500 are 1 in 7.5 million. Sharestakes' Grant My Wishes rules set the eligibility, prize amounts, and odds.

Ramses Riches is a separate daily-entry game with $1, $8, $88, $888, and $8,888 cash prizes. It permits up to five entries per game day for eligible U.S. and D.C.

adults. Its official rules describe those daily-entry and prize limits. $20,000 Dollars Under the Sea is another separate no-purchase opportunity for eligible U.S.

and D.C. adults. Its game day runs from midnight through 11:59:59 p.m.

Eastern Time, so Saint Paul entrants should use Eastern Time when planning daily entries. The game rules define that schedule.

How to make an eligible entry

Registration and email confirmation are required for a Scratchstakes entry to be eligible. Complete those steps before treating an entry as submitted. Use a simple routine: A no-purchase entry does not mean a prize is free of conditions.

Age, residence, account confirmation, entry limits, and rule compliance still apply.

• Register with accurate contact information.
• Confirm the registration email.
• Enter each game separately; one game's entry does not cover another.
• Track daily limits, especially Ramses Riches' five-entry maximum.
• Use Eastern Time for the Dollars Under the Sea game-day cutoff.

The privacy tradeoff to consider first

Scratchstakes' Grant My Wishes rules state that entrants agree to telemarketing, email, and direct-mail marketing from the company and advertising affiliates. That makes entry a personal choice about both prize odds and marketing contact. Consider using an email address you check regularly but do not reserve for essential banking, health, or work messages.

Keep confirmation messages until the registration process is complete, and review the account's available communication controls before entering repeatedly.

How Saint Paul entrants can screen prize messages

Minnesota prize-notice law requires disclosures such as the real sponsor and address, retail value, odds, charges, restrictions, and eligibility limits. It also restricts conditioning a Minnesota prize on payment without required written disclosures. A payment request is a decisive warning sign.

The FTC says a real sweepstakes does not charge taxes, shipping, handling, or processing fees to release a prize; payment demands can be reported at ReportFraud.ftc.gov through the FTC's prize-warning guidance. Use the game's written rules and the sponsor's own account process rather than a surprise call, text, or social message to evaluate a claimed win.

Keep ordinary promotions separate from casino-style sites

Minnesota's Attorney General has warned social sweepstakes casinos that offer casino-style games and cash-redemption coins to stop serving Minnesota residents. Those sites are different from an ordinary free-entry promotion and do not fit a cautious Saint Paul cash-sweepstakes plan. Stick to promotions with clear written rules, a stated sponsor, a defined no-purchase method, and a prize-claim process that never starts with a payment demand.