Firstly a huge thanks to all of you who travelled to Christchurch for the AGM. I hope you had a great time.
Now that the dust has settled and we’re going through the final ‘debrief’ stage, I thought I’d share this with you for discussion.
Sunday afternoon I was about to pack up the raffle barrel and looked inside to find it full of ticket stubs. Out of interest I squeezed my big mit in and grabbed a handful and out of curiosity had a look at the tickets. The top one was a single ticket from one member. The next 8 stubbs were from two members (4 stubs each) and the stubbs were all in number sequence, i.e. no mixing had occured.
I closed the hatch and spun it and again reached in and took a fist full only to find that most of the tickets (although a couple more members) were almost all numbers in sequence, i.e. XXX4 XXX5 XXX6 etc., again indicating bugger all mixing of ticket stubs had gone on.
What was also very evident is that those stubbs loaded into the barrel first and pushed towards the ends of the barrel to make room (it’s quite full with 2,500 stubbs) had a snowball’s chance in hell of being mixed evenly, or even more unlikely, migrating lengthways to lie under the hatch. If yours was loaded first, you weren’t ever going to get a chance of being drawn.
Basically, the stubbs loaded last, and in particular, book lots, and sitting under the hatch are really the only ones that have any chance of being picked at random and even then mixing didn’t appear that effective.
So, I was wondering if there is a better way?
Say we have 10 balls numbered 0 – 9 and we sell 2750 tickets.
Balls numbered 0, 1 and 2 would be placed in the barrel first and one ball drawn. That’s the first of 4 ticket numbers (thousands).
Balls numbered 0 – 7 the next to be loaded and the number drawn. That’s the 2nd of 4 numbers (hundreds).
For the 3rd and 4th ticket numbers, all balls would be loaded into the drum, spun, and drawn (tens and ones).
Much like lotto.
Anyway, just a thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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