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Category: Instant Win Games

5 Things To Know About Running an Instant Win Game

  Marden-Kane is your source for custom or pre-built instant win games that can be used for your next promotion. Not sure what an instant win game is? Check out our demo, and read on for 5 things to know about them: What is an instant win game? An instant win game is a game of chance where a player finds out instantly if they have won a prize. The

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April 27, 2025 No Comments

5 Ideas for a Successful Cinco de Mayo Promotion

Cinco do Mayo has become a huge party day in the bar and restaurant business. You can take your party – whether it be in your restaurant or via a takeout box — to the next level with these five ideas for a Cinco de Mayo promotion. 1. Run a Cinco de Mayo Social Sweepstakes or Contest Run a social sweepstakes or contest on Twitter or Instagram for a chance

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March 19, 2021 No Comments

Use Unique Codes for Your Next Instant Win or Sweepstakes

  Use unique codes can enhance your next sweepstakes, giveaway, or instant win game. With unique codes incorporated into your promotion you can: Provide tracking of entrants back to a region or store. Give your sales team a specific range of codes that can be tracked back to their sales, which can give you the opportunity to reward the highest producers. Pinpoint game participation to a specific geographic area. Determine

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February 28, 2020 No Comments

McMillion$ and the Importance of Instant Win Game Security

  If you aren’t sure why instant win game security is that big of a deal, you might want to watch the new HBO docuseries called “McMillion$”. It details the strange, and almost unbelievable, true story of how an employee at a promotional marketing company called Simon Marketing, a former competitor of Marden-Kane’s, committed fraud in the McDonald’s Monopoly games between 1989 and 2001, bilking McDonald’s and their customers out

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February 13, 2020 No Comments

The Most Visited Promotional Marketing Posts You Should Consult in 2020

  These were the most visited promotional marketing posts by Marden-Kane from 2019. There were quite a few trending topics — like TikTok Contests, tying the Tokyo Olympics into your promotion, content moderation basics, and more! You might want to revisit them for your 2020 promotional marketing planning! 1. How to Run a Legal TikTok Contest or Sweepstakes TikTok does not currently have any posted contest guidelines, but that doesn’t

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December 5, 2019 No Comments

From the MK Promotion Archives: Tigerino – the First Scratch-Off Game Card

  Marden-Kane originated the first scratch-off game card with Tigerino. The Tigerino promotion was designed for Humble Oil’s ESSO and ENCO gas stations in 1966, to capitalize on the already popular “Put a Tiger in Your Tank” ad campaign. The idea was simple: if you purchased gas you could get a game card. Every game was a winner, but some game cards awarded big cash prizes depending on the letters

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August 8, 2019 3 Comments

You Don’t Have To Reinvent the Wheel to Run a Digital Scratch-Off Game

Did you know that creative development and animation for a digital scratch-off game or other instant win game can cost thousands of dollars? And that does not even include legal fees to write official rules, procure and fulfill prizes, or programming. Why not use a budget-friendly, pre-built game, customized with your brand colors and logo(s), to execute your next digital scratch-off game.   Why should you run an instant win

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May 30, 2019 No Comments

Top 5 Marketing Posts 2018

  Here they are! They yearly top 5 marketing posts on the Marden-Kane blog from 2018. If you haven’t read them all, what are you waiting for? 2018 #1: Contest Laws by State Before you run a promotion in the United States, you might want to check sweepstakes or contest laws by state. Some states have more vigorous laws regulating sweepstakes and contests and you can’t claim you didn’t know

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December 11, 2018 No Comments

What the Heck is an AMOE?: A Guide to Sweepstakes Acronyms

  Sweepstakes rules frequently contain acronyms that are not easily deciphered, like SASE or AMOE. Here is a guide to the most common sweepstakes acronyms that you might come across in a set of sweepstakes rules. AMOE AMOE stands for Alternate Method of Entry (or Alternate Means of Entry). An AMOE is a free, no purchase necessary method of entry that is sometimes included in a Sweepstakes if the usual

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June 8, 2016 No Comments

Current Marden-Kane Promotions

Due to popular demand, we are providing a list of some of our current Marden-Kane promotions. Select sweepstakes and contests that we administer will be listed here. Check back often as we will be adding to this list weekly! Each promotion is governed by Official Rules that are accessible by clicking the link provided.

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March 29, 2016 12 Comments

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5 Things To Know About Running an Instant Win Game

  Marden-Kane is your source for custom or pre-built instant win games that can be used for your next promotion.

Read More

5 Ideas for a Successful Cinco de Mayo Promotion

Cinco do Mayo has become a huge party day in the bar and restaurant business. You can take your party

Read More

Use Unique Codes for Your Next Instant Win or Sweepstakes

  Use unique codes can enhance your next sweepstakes, giveaway, or instant win game. With unique codes incorporated into your

Read More

McMillion$ and the Importance of Instant Win Game Security

  If you aren’t sure why instant win game security is that big of a deal, you might want to

Read More

The Most Visited Promotional Marketing Posts You Should Consult in 2020

  These were the most visited promotional marketing posts by Marden-Kane from 2019. There were quite a few trending topics

Read More

From the MK Promotion Archives: Tigerino – the First Scratch-Off Game Card

  Marden-Kane originated the first scratch-off game card with Tigerino. The Tigerino promotion was designed for Humble Oil’s ESSO and

Read More

You Don’t Have To Reinvent the Wheel to Run a Digital Scratch-Off Game

Did you know that creative development and animation for a digital scratch-off game or other instant win game can cost

Read More

Top 5 Marketing Posts 2018

  Here they are! They yearly top 5 marketing posts on the Marden-Kane blog from 2018. If you haven’t read

Read More

What the Heck is an AMOE?: A Guide to Sweepstakes Acronyms

  Sweepstakes rules frequently contain acronyms that are not easily deciphered, like SASE or AMOE. Here is a guide to

Read More

Current Marden-Kane Promotions

Due to popular demand, we are providing a list of some of our current Marden-Kane promotions. Select sweepstakes and contests

Read More
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