Game Bandit - Scouring the net to find the cheapest discount boardgames and best free boardgame prizesThe grand prize in Toys R Us’ Ultimate Minions Birthday Sweepstakes is travel for four to Toys R Us in Times Square and a $500 gift card.

Pinnacle Entertainment is running a haiku contest. The best haiku about the world of Lankhmar gets a $50 credit at Pinnacle’s web store.

Answer a market-survey questionnaire and be entered in to a drawing for $500 worth of Rubik’s Cube products.

Build a fort—full-sized from stone and wood, or miniature from toys—and send a pic to Osprey. The best three get copies of the publisher’s Fortress 108 book.

If you can figure out how a trait card from North Star Games’ Evolution would resolve a scene from a famous movie, the company will give you 50% off on an Evolution goodie pack. One person will even get the goodie pack for free.

One randomly selected person who orders the standard Spinward Traveller poster for $80 will instead receive the original painting valued at $4,500.

To enter Board Game Theater’s giveaway, like, follow, and comment on various social media sites. The three prize packages include Star Realms sets and other goodies.

EAI Education is having a sale on cubes and dice.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Arion Games has put all its PDF and POD products on-sale for 40% off.