Raffle Drawing Rules

[megfitz]

I help run a large Community Raffle and when we draw the tickets we have been returning tickets belonging to those who have already won a prize.
This to our minds helps to ensure a greater spread of prize winners but a query has been raised that this might not be legal if the holder of the ticket is not present to give permission to discard or return their ticket.
Please can someone advise us on this issue. Thanks.

[Old_Geezer]

It's obliging purchasers to buy a strip that's weird. If everyone has 5, the odds are the same as if everyone has 1. Waste of paper.

[woofgang]

not always OG. In Corby's case, there is one prize only and you can't buy less than five tickets, so everybody who buys the minimum has the same chance of winning whether or not the strips are torn apart or not....they either all have one chance of winning if the strip stays whole or 5 chances of winning if the strip is separated. The key thing is that dividing the 5 tickets in a one prize raffle doesn't increase the odds of winning if the minimum purchase is five tickets....you might as well save tickets and sell them in ones.

[woofgang]

YES!

[THECORBYLOON]

I don't know, for me anyway, folding strips is easier than folding individual tickets.

The point I was making was the woman's lack of appreciation that her odds of being picked were not affected.

[megfitz]

Oh dear! I seem to have started a debate here, can I add to it by saying one of the people assisting with the Draw said “does it make it legal if we display a notice saying only one prize per person?”
I think people may not buy so many tickets if we do that but it’s an interesting idea.

[THECORBYLOON]

Folk may be asking for their money back from previous draws when they find out what's been going on.

What if a person wins a minor prize with their first ticket a much better one with their second? Do they lose that second one? Do they get to decide which one to keep?

I see nothing wrong in doing what you are meant to do which is give the prizes to the folk winning them.

If they then want to decline them, that is their choice but you cannot make that choice for them.

[Buenchico]

>>> “does it make it legal if we display a notice saying only one prize per person?”

No, because a winner's undrawn tickets then cease to have any value, meaning that the 'equal chance' rule is broken.