Raffles

I run a small raffle for a local charity. Yes, I sell a strip (five tickets) for one pound - recently introduced a 'special offer' of six strips for a fiver!!!

Raffle tickets sold at start of meeting, then whilst that months speaker is doing their thing I fold up every one of those tickets breaking down each strip into five individual ticket.

Often wonder why I do this. Could just sell one ticket for one pound. Would use less raffle tickets and give me much less work. BUT.....there is the psychological part which means that people feel they are getting more for their money with the strip of five tickets - so i will continue to do this.

When I do the raffle with my DH, we write the purchasers name on every ticket, so a strip of 5 tickets has their name on 5 tickets.

They then get folded individually to go in the tub. Time consuming, yes, but if you are selling a strip with 5 tickets on, then 5 individual tickets should go in the tub, not the whole strip.

If people are too impatient to wait, then the problem is with them.

what a waste of paper

Satahr our pub does this for meat draw.
Most times the person selling tickets writes details on each one, it takes time when others are clamouring for tickets, then tearing each ticket along the perforations, carefully, takes ages later. A strip makes more sense to me.
£1 a go these days is pretty good I think.

I bought quite an expensive raffle ticket once. I only had one.
The organisers decided to award the prizes in reverse order.
The first ticket out did not get the first prize! It wasn’t my ticket, I won nothing but if mine had come out first I would have had no chance of winning the top prize.
It really is odd how some people interpret the rules.