You may call it a contest where those who predict correctly wins the prizes. The difference between this and gambling is that here you are just participating in prediction without investing your own money while in gambling you would invest your own money in order to participate in prediction.
Anyways I do agree that most people will consider these two scenarios as same and will treat both of them as gambling.
The truth for this is that we can refered to them all as gambling since what most of us understand as gambling is the involvement of a staked amount and since e in both playing inhouse games or making a prediction involve financial involvmennt with the expectations to win make them all gambling.
So at this point, we cant separate the two from each other and we must align ourselves with that u understanding.
all activities that involve a certain amount of money at stake are a form of gambling activity even though the money or capital you get for gambling does not come from your personal pocket or savings, but from bonuses, events that are being held or gifts from other people to you. but need to pay close attention that usually the free gifts that gambling sites give to you are just a form of inducement so that when you lose, you will unknowingly deposit your money back to the gambling site for gambling capital, nothing is really free in this world.
Even not in the form of money as long you are staking something then it would really be called gambling but in most cases or situation on which gambling game would really be having that money involvement because
it wont really be called one if there's no something that be at stake. If there is a company which do really give out those kind of offers on which they are really giving out some free picks and having the chance to win up something then this might really be just that promotional or something that cant really be that permanent because it would really be impossible for a company on giving out those free money for nothing and giving out
chances for people to hit up the right spot and make profits and that would really be a huge expense for them.This is why there's no sense that they would be allowing for it to happen since they are running a business
then it would really be just that normal that they would be having promotions but giving out free money or chances? Its really that impossible to last that long.