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Customers buying restaurant raffle tickets at a 2008 event in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A strip of common two-part raffle tickets. A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.
A young boy draws a ticket from a tombola drum. In the United Kingdom, a tombola is a form of raffle in which prizes are pre-assigned to winning tickets. Typically numbered raffle tickets are used, with prizes allocated to all those ending in a particular digit (traditionally a five or a zero).
The plural of raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets; Raffles's malkoha (Rhinortha chlorophaea), a species of cuckoo; Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion; The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, at the National University of Singapore; Raffles, a 1991 video game released on Atari ST and Amiga
A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
Tickets being chosen in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1946. In the United States, a sweepstake is a type of contest where a prize or prizes may be awarded to a winner or winners. [1]
Raffles Hotels & Resorts was formed in 1989 to restore, redevelop and manage the historic Raffles Hotel in Singapore.The corporation also undertook the restructuring and management of the Raffles City development, thus laying the foundation for Raffles Hotels & Resorts to become a hotel management company.
Chinese auction is a type of the all-pay auction, where the probability of winning depends on the relative size of a participant's bid. [1] The choice of the winner is done by a lottery, whereby the bidders compete for a higher chance of winning.
A meat raffle is also sometimes called a meat draw. [2] In some cases the raffle is operated by a designated charity, though in Britain most of the proceeds are spent on prizes and the raffle is run as a social occasion and a method of enticing customers into a local pub. The meat ranges in animal and cut and often comes from local butchers.