{"id":4095,"date":"2019-03-25T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartplay.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2025-11-16T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:58:35","slug":"lottery-machine-ideas-for-raffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartplay.com\/lottery-machine-ideas-for-raffles\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Machine Ideas for Raffles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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So you’re starting a raffle. A raffle is defined as a type of lottery where people purchase tickets or entries, each with an identifying number. Usually participants buy any number of entries, each with an equal chance of winning. A drawing is then conducted where one or more of these numbers is selected randomly to determine the winner(s).<\/p>\n\n

If you’re selling only 200 or so entries, it’s pretty easy to do this with individually numbered lottery balls. Move up to selling 500, 1000 or even 10,000 tickets, using a mechanical ball machine quickly gets unruly to manage. You’ve got to mix all those balls which takes a larger machine. To make the draw credible you need to display those balls before you draw them. So you need to display them in some way so the participants can see that all the numbered balls are actually going to be in the bin to be mixed. Of course, then you need to clean the machine and balls regularly so there is always an equal chance of all balls being drawn.<\/p>\n\n

There has to be a better way!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What we suggest is a multi-chamber machine whereby each chamber is representing thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. As long as you sell an even number of tickets (e.g. 100, 1000, 1300, 1500, 2500, 15000, etc.) using a multi-chamber lottery machine will greatly simplify your draws. It will save you time, money and headaches and your participants will be able to easily see each ball that will be included in the draw.<\/p>\n\n

For example, let’s say that you sell 1000 tickets — you need 1000 balls. Or you can use a three-chamber, single-digit lottery machine where each of the three chambers have balls 0-9 in each chamber. This gives you 1000 combinations 000 through 999. In this scenario 0000 would equal the draw of 1000 or 0000, it just depends on if you sell a ticket with the number 0000 or 1000.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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