An instant win game is a promotional game where you set up winning time slots. When a participant plays the game (validates the form), they can win a reward immediately if they participate within the correct time slot or win nothing if they don't participate at the right moment.

At Socialshaker, you can configure a time slot during which a reward can be won. The first person to play the instant win game (validate the form) within that time slot wins the reward. When setting up your rewards, you'll need to configure as many instant wins as the number of rewards you have to give away.

Example: Your game runs from July 1, 2020, to July 5, 2020. You want to give away 10 CDs and 5 concert tickets. Therefore, you need to set up a total of 15 instant wins. After configuration, one of your rewards is scheduled for July 2, 2020, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The first person to participate starting from 11:00 AM on July 2, 2020, wins the reward. They see the "Won" page displayed along with the corresponding reward. At 12:00 PM, if no one has participated yet, the reward is no longer available. Everyone then sees the same "Lost" page until the next winning time slot.

The game mechanics that allow you to set up instant wins are as follows:

Regardless of the chosen instant win mechanics, you will find the "Instant" module in the "Mechanics" section of your campaign's configuration.

Export the list of all winners here.

Useful for generating a large number of instants, distributed randomly over the time slots of your choice.

Delete all instant wins you have configured at once. This allows you to start your configuration from scratch if you made a mistake. Please note that if you already have instant wins on your campaign, they will also be removed from the list.

Useful for generating manually configurable instant wins one by one.

List of all instant wins configured by the campaign organizer. The list is located at the bottom of the page. If you have generated many instants, the list may extend over several pages.

The list of instants is constructed as follows:

This section is useful if you want to generate a large number of instant wins, randomly distributed over the time slots of your choice.

Here is the detail of each element to configure, step by step (numbers corresponding to the explanations below):

Set the start date and end date of the period during which you want there to be instant wins to be won in your game. Note: the start and end date of the game do not necessarily have to be the same as the start and end date of the period where you want your moments to be distributed. A game with instant wins can be open to players without having certain days configured with instant wins.

Example: your game lasts from October 1st to October 10th, 2020. If you want rewards to be won every day, set the start date to October 1st, 2020, and the end date to October 10th, 2020. If you do not want to award rewards on October 1st, for example, set the start date to October 2nd and the end date to October 10th.

Corresponds to the general time slot during which you want your moments to be distributed. Example: you do not want a reward to be won during the night. In this case, set the time slot from 6am to 11pm.

You need to differentiate between the time slot (mentioned just above) and the duration of the moment. The moment duration corresponds to the duration in minutes of an instant win. As a reminder: with Socialshaker, an instant win corresponds to a time slot where it is possible to win a reward. The first person to participate in the game (submit the form) within this time slot wins the reward.

Enter the number of instant wins you want to generate. Please note that the generator is limited to 100 moments. Do you have more than 100 instant wins to set up? No problem. Set up and generate 100 moments first, then repeat the process with the remaining moments, making sure to reconfigure the generator from the beginning each time.

⚠️ WARNING: The generator resets to default settings after each generation.

Example: I have 250 T-shirts to give away. I set up 100 moments with the desired date/time and duration for each moment. I generate them. Then, I repeat the entire process, ensuring to reconfigure the generator correctly as I did the first time. I generate 100 more moments. I repeat for the third time with 50 moments. My list will have a total of 250 moments.

You have the option to set an image and a name for your moments. The recommended format for the image is 328x300px. In the case of automatic generation, these settings will apply to all moments in the batch you are currently generating. This allows you to quickly set up multiple identical items (e.g., 100 T-shirts).

The image and reward name will appear on the winning page as follows:

Finally, click on Generate. Your moments list will be displayed at the bottom of the page.

Classic generation is useful if you have very few moments to create or if you need to set up different instant wins (e.g., one reward per day for 25 days for an Advent Calendar). You can manually configure your moments and choose different dates and times for each moment you want to create. You can also use classic generation if you want to add a moment during the game.

Select the number of moments you want to generate in the moment generator. They will be displayed in the list at the bottom of the page. Then click on "Action" and then "Configure" to customize each moment (start and end date/time, image, and name of the moment) to your liking.

You will find the list of all your winners under "Mechanics" > "Moments" > "Export Winners" :

For more information on data exports in general (form data, custom field responses export, etc.), we also invite you to read the article on data exports in general.