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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
Lotería (Spanish word meaning "lottery") is a traditional Mexican board game of chance, similar to bingo, but played with a deck of cards instead of numbered balls. Each card has an image of an everyday object, its name, and a number, although the number is usually ignored.
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Tombola is a raffle mostly played at Christmas time. Prizes are often only of symbolic value. With the Italian mass emigration of the 19th and 20th centuries, the game which originated in Southern Italy was exported abroad and it took different forms and names such as Bingo.