Walkers Crisps have an interesting promotion on…

Win £10 every day it rains.

You go to www.walkers.co.uk, choose where in the UK you think it will rain (on whatever day it is two days from today), and enter a code off a pack of crisps.

Well, having just bought a Cheese & Onion pack of crisps, I thought I’d give it a go! Come on, it rains so much here, it’s easy money!

I liked the entry because there was no ridiculously long entry form. I just entered my email address, created a password, didn’t click the “you can send me spam” box, and boom! If it rains between 8am and midday on Saturday just east of Stirling in Scotland, I win £10!

I chose Stirling because according to BBC Weather, that’s the only place on Saturday where they’re expecting rain. Although you can see where everybody else has guessed, and it seems that people are guessing around major cities – perhaps they’re picking squares based on where they live, or where they have attachments… suckers!

Ok, so you had to choose a 4hr window as well as a place, and you’re only allowed one entry per day, so you’re not going to get rich off it. But it was a bit of fun for this afternoon.

That £10 is not going to seem like much after I win £112,000,000 on the Euromillions on Friday. But it all adds up. Especially considering the crisps only cost me 40p.

EDIT 5 November: It didn’t win on the particular day I chose here, but I entered the competition three more times after this post and won £10 on two of those days.