Incentivized task completion using chance-based awards

A system for incentivizing game-related actions related to a game by users of the game through virtual chance items that provide awards based on probabilities, wherein the users include a first user, the system comprising:

• one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
• execute an instance of a game space, and to facilitate presentation of views of the game space to the users;
• automatically manage a first inventory of virtual items, wherein the first inventory is associated with the first user;
• automatically monitor, by the one or more processors, whether one or more specific actions have been completed by individual ones of the users, wherein the one or more specific actions include at least one of:
• (i) signing into the game during an event,
• (ii) purchasing virtual goods,
• (iii) purchasing virtual currency,
• (iv) playing mini-games within the game,
• (v) building structures within the game,
• (vi) training troops within the game,
• (vii) collecting resources within the game,
• (viii) attacking an enemy within the game,
• (ix) defending from attacks within the game, and/or
• (x) competing in a tournament within the game;
• responsive to the first user completing a specific action from the one or more specific actions, automatically provide, by the one or more processors, a first virtual chance item to the first inventory of the first user until activation of the first virtual chance item, wherein the first virtual chance item has a first probability to provide a primary award upon the activation and a second probability to provide a secondary award upon the activation;
• and
• responsive to the activation of the first virtual chance item, automatically provide, by the one or more processors, in accordance with the first and second probabilities assigned to the first virtual chance item, one or both of the primary award and the secondary award to the first inventory of the first user.