Talk:Raffle

Tombola
Half of this entry sounds made up, especially since the use of the word 'tombola' and the very definition it links to do not match. Sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.20.103 (talk • contribs) November 18, 2007


 * I'm not particularly volunteering to track down sources for this, but tombola is certainly correct, and is a common term for a small lottery at a party or fair in Italy (or among Italian-Americans). - Jmabel | Talk 23:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, I hadn't noticed this silliness (which I've cut):

"The Tombola is popularly heralded as the creation of Sussex born Thomas Bowler who worked closely with his brother-in-law, Al Seery, on the invention for his wife's, and Seery's sister's forthcoming birthday party. The success was such that Seery manufactured and sold the TomBowler at his local market stall - without applying for a patent however, his product was quickly copied and bettered and an invention that could have netted a huge sum in future profits was, essentially given to the community as open source."


 * WP:BJAODN, anyone? - Jmabel | Talk 23:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

This raffle game doesn't sound like italian tombola at all, I'm editing it. For lottery there's the italian word lotteria. Lostella (talk) 13:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Seriously, guys, this article is a real mess. Lostella (talk) 13:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Reverse Raffle
Anyone want to write about reverse raffles - of which there are several versions? --Bill.albing (talk) 15:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I belatedly second this. I don't know what they are! 195.194.238.103 (talk) 11:52, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

merge w/ Chinese Auction
I'm proposing to merge Chinese auction into this page. While the Chinese auction is given a name "auction", it is effectively multiple simultaneous raffles. (Any raffle certainly could be thought of as a kind of auction.) The Chinese auction article also describes them as being used in a similar context as raffles--generally gambling for fund-raising. It seems that adding it as one example here could flesh this article out a bit, and avoid the confusion of having its own page. Cretog8 (talk) 03:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Contradiction... prize number, attached or not?
A: The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them, and the holder of the ticket wins the prize.

B: In this manner, people are not buying tickets to win a specific prize, but for the possibility of winning any of the prizes, as the prizes do not have specific numbers attached.

I don't have any sources to back this up, but I assume this contradiction is happening because the order of events is not clear.. I assume that the numbers are not attached to the prizes until the drawing takes place. But, once the drawing takes place, there is a number attached to the prize. --70.186.144.226 (talk) 22:56, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Merge with lottery?
I suggest merging this page with Lottery. I think "raffle" is typically used when a the prize is a physical item, but this could be explained with a sentence or two in the lottery article. ghouston (talk) 09:47, 4 June 2015 (UTC)