Spot the ball is a traditional

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promotion, where the player has to guess the position of a

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which has been removed from a photograph of a ball sport, especially

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. A spot-the-ball competition may be classed as betting, a prize competition, or a lottery, depending on its form. If it is classed as a prize competition, the promoter does not need a betting operating licence to run it. In the United Kingdom, the last big payout was in 2004.

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