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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).
There are "raffle tickets", which can be purchased if the player lands on a "buy raffle ticket" square. The cost is a multiple of a die roll and cashed when the holder reaches a "charity bazaar" square. There is a "kitty" which receives proceeds from raffle ticket sales. There is also a "lucky boxcars" square where everyone adds $20 to the kitty.
For its 25th anniversary in 2007, the Lottery held its first raffle, 375,000 tickets were sold, with three prizes of $1 million, four of $100,000, and 350 of $1,000. In the first drawing, all tickets were sold. In spring 2008, a second raffle was held, however, over 100,000 tickets were unsold. The cost of a ticket in both raffles was $20.
A template for an abbreviated wheeling system is given as 20 combinations on the numbers from 1 to 10. Also given is a possible selection of player numbers and the resultant set of tickets (obtained by substituting the numbers 1-10 with the player’s numbers). Suppose four of the player's numbers—7, 12, 29, and 40—are drawn.
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.
Teams, as a whole, were awarded tickets based on their point totals, and in the following show, one ticket would be drawn, awarding $5 Amazon.com gift certificates to every member on the team, up to 50. The invite raffle was based on the number of invites a user sent during the week, through social networking websites such as MySpace and ...
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