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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.
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] Sweepstakes began as a form of lottery that were tied to products sold. [2] In response, the FCC and FTC refined U.S. broadcasting laws (creating the anti-lottery laws). [3]
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).
What intrigued Jerry was the game’s unusual gimmick, known as a roll-down: If nobody won the jackpot for a while, and the jackpot climbed above $5 million, there was a roll-down, which meant that on the next drawing, as long as there was no six-number winner, the jackpot cash flowed to the lesser tiers of winners, like water spilling over ...
A bonus number is also drawn, and if a player's ticket matches five numbers and the bonus number, the player wins the "second prize" which is usually between $100,000 and $500,000. Should more than one player win the top or second prize, it is split amongst them. Lesser prizes are also awarded if one matches at least two numbers.
In certain countries, mainly the U.S., the winner gets to choose between an annuity payment and a one-time payment. The one-time payment ( cash or lump sum ) is a "smaller" amount than the advertised (annuity) jackpot, having regard to the time value of money , even before applying any income taxes to which the prize is subject.
Weekly contest is to encourage good work on Wikipedia! The competitions could be about expanding the articles, adding images, or categorizing articles, for example. Anyone can create a competition gene to add to his race in the list! Week competition:Wikipedia:Weekly contest/Growing 41 Stubs
An example of user-generated content, a personalised sign and objects in the virtual world of Second Life. User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), emerged from the rise of intelligent web services which allow everyday users to create content, such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, and software (e.g. video game mods) and interact with other ...