raffle
Sign in to savethumb|right|Customers buying restaurant raffle tickets at a 2008 event in Harrisonburg, Virginia thumb|right|A strip of common two-part raffle tickets A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has an equal chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number. The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them, and the holder of the ticket wins the prize.
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- Process
- Chinese auction
- Tombola
- Private raffle
- Worldwide
- Cash raffle
- See also
- References
thumb|right|Customers buying restaurant raffle tickets at a 2008 event in Harrisonburg, Virginia thumb|right|A strip of common two-part raffle tickets A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has an equal chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number. The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them, and the holder of the ticket wins the prize.
The raffle is a popular game in many countries, and is often held to raise funds for a specific charity or event.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “raffle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.