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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Within Vinony's link graph, raffle is referenced by 207 other articles, and connects out to International Standard Book Number, gambling and digital object identifier.
It is catalogued under the topic Lotteries.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- game of chance
- Image
- Raffle at Lawn Jam Our Community Place Harrisonburg VA June 2008.jpg
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- Commons category
- Raffles
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- 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.