It's a ruse for you to just watch ads or spend money on other games; it's free itself though. Played daily for 2 months, in the first few days I'd won 25 cents here, 50 cents there and got to $8 (minimum to cash out is $10) , then the winnings completely stopped. Even if you have enough chips to buy a gift card, they're always "sold out" of Amazon and PayPal. I imagine they get discounts on the crappy ones like Home Depot, so $10 to Home Depot doesn't cost them as much as $10 to PayPal.