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Tombola (/ t ɒ m ˈ b oʊ l ə / tom-BOH-lə, Italian:) is a lottery-style board game which originated in Southern Italy. A variation of the game is a popular form of raffle in the UK and elsewhere around the world.
Tombola or variants may refer to: Tombola (game), a lottery-type game originating in Italy; Tombola (bingo company), a UK-based online gaming company; Tómbola, 1961 Spanish musical film with child singer and actress Marisol; Tómbola, an American Spanish-language entertainment-news TV show
In the UK, the term "tombola" is used when the raffle tickets are placed in a barrel and tumbled before the winning tickets are drawn from the barrel. The tombola booth is commonly used as a fundraising event for local fetes. In New Zealand and Australia, meat raffles are commonplace in pubs and registered clubs. [8]
A bingo winner in Montreal, Quebec in 1941. A game of chance named lotto was being played in Italy by about 1530. In the 18th century, a home version (called Tombola) was created in Naples with the addition of cards, tokens, and the calling out of numbers.
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This is a list of Spanish words of Italian origin. It is further divided into words that come from contemporary Italian and from colloquial Italian in Spanish. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words borrowed from a different language.
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