Many a weary minnow finds herself wishing she didn't have to work so hard to earn that STEEM.

Posting, commenting, voting- when you don't have much Steem Power, steeem can feel like a lot of work for little reward.

Don't you wish you could earn STEEM/SBD passively or while playing a fun game?

Now you can!

In this post we are going to look at 3 ways to earn STEEM or SBD for free: two are games and one is a faucet in the form of a bot.

Introducing the Steem Poker League

The @spl is a group of poker-loving steemians who get together on the poker site Lucksacks.com to play free poker and win SBD prizes!

It's free to sign up on Lucksacks.com

You should have a 35 rep on steemit and have made an introduction post before you apply.

Steemgar- agar.io clone with built-in upvotes for the winners

You may remember agar.io, the in-browser game where you are a dot that runs around looking for other dots to eat. The more dots your dot eats the bigger it gets and then it can eat other, smaller dot-players. The last dot standing wins the game!

An hourly agar.io clone for steemians happens on https://steemgar.herokuapp.com/

You give your posting key when you sign up and when the game is finished, the winner automatically comments on the game announcement post on @steemplayroom that they are the "Winner of the match". Then, @steemplayroom automatically votes up the comment (and all the other participants are encouraged to do so, as well, as a kind of "reward" for the winner of the game).

Steem Basic Income

The final free way to earn STEEM/SBD covered in this post is the STEEM Basic Income. How it works is you can nominate someone to receive a basic income share by sending 1 STEEM and their steemit account name to @steembasicincome. After which both yourself and the acccount nominated will each receive an automatic upvote on all your posts.

With the approximate 0.01 upvote per share I seem to be receiving, each purchased share should pay for itself in about 100 posts, after which I will essentially be receiving a passive income from upvotes.

Additional shares can be acquired by nominating additional accounts, delegating SP to @steembasicincome, and upvoting @steembasicincome posts. The account itself has spawned additional contests where STEEM Basic Income shares are given away as prizes, so be on the look out for those as well.

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That about wraps up this post sharing the different ways it's possible to receive free STEEM/SBD.

Of course, there is also my CSGO Parlay Contest which has a 3.549 SBD Guaranteed Jackpot- free SBD for the winner on that one

Dislaimer: This is not financial advice nor am I a financial expert.