What are the NAP Competition rules?

A quick guide to the rules that keep the free NAP Competition fair: how often you need to play to win, and how every entry is kept open for everyone to see.

The NAP Competition is free to enter and open to everyone, and anyone can win the prizes. You do not need an X account and you do not need to share your picks anywhere. To keep it fair there are a few simple rules.

Minimum entries to win

To be eligible for a cash prize you need to take part regularly across the period:

• Weekly prize: you must play at least 4 times during the week (Sunday to Saturday).
• Monthly prize: you must play at least 15 times during the calendar month.

You are welcome to enter as often or as little as you like for fun, but those are the minimums to qualify for the prizes. For everything that is up for grabs, see Weekly & monthly winners' prizes.

Every entry is public

The moment you submit, your entry is locked and timestamped, and it appears with your NAP, NB and 3B on Today's NAP Entries for every other player to see. That is the record the competition runs on, so there are no posts to keep up and no account to unlock. Your picks cannot be changed after they are in, and everyone can see exactly what you selected and when.

Sharing on X is optional

You can link an X (formerly Twitter) account if you use one, and it adds a few extras: we post your entries from your own account, you can pick up followers from the other players, you get non-runner alerts on X, and Free members unlock the 5-day Premium welcome trial. None of it affects whether you can win. If you do not use X, choose Enter without X on the entry slip and you are playing for exactly the same prizes. See Connecting your X account for the details.

Why these rules exist

It comes down to transparency and fairness. Because real prizes are on the line, every qualifying selection needs to be visible and fixed before the racing, so there can never be any doubt about who selected what. That used to mean posting your picks to X. Now the site keeps that open record itself, on Today's NAP Entries, which is why the X requirement has gone.

New to it all? Start with How do I play the NAP Competition? and What is the NAP Competition?.