There are several different draw types you can use for a lottery: Sequentially numbered draws and combination draws.
Sequentially numbered draws.
The most common, because it is the easiest to understand and execute, is a sequential number draw: You sell 200 numbered tickets. Then you draw the winner.
Sequentially numbered draws are the most common because they are the easiest to understand and execute.
If you use a ball machine to draw the winner, you very quickly run into a few issues:
First, you need to verify the draw, so someone has to check that you ran it correctly, that all 200 balls were indeed in the machine, and that there is no disparity between the balls (for example, some balls might be larger, so they could not be selected, or some balls might be heavier than others)*.
Next, the bigger your draw gets, the harder verification becomes, the more balls you need, and the more costly your verification process becomes. There is a limit of about 1000 for single drum ball machines. But verification of 1000 balls, for every draw, takes time and is expensive.
When selling tickets, you can use the paper counterfoil part and place them in a drum for selection, but again, you need to verify that all the counterfoils are in the machine.
Finally, you have one winner. Once you draw that single ball, that single ticket, the excitement ends for the 199 people who did not win.
A Multi-Chamber Lottery Machine
You can use a multi-chamber machine for sequentially numbered draws, and for our 200 draw, you would only need 22 balls. Your tickets would need to start at 000 to 199 (which is 200 in total). You would have 0 and 1 in the first chamber, and then 0 to 9 in the second and third chambers. A multi-chamber machine alleviates the issue with verification, as you only need to check 22 balls instead of 200. A draw for 100,000 with a multi-chamber machine, you only need to verify 50 balls (five chambers each with 0 to 9, giving the range 00,000 to 99,999).
But, once again, after you select your numbers, the excitement ends for the 199 people who did not win.
Our Blyton is a five-chambered Lottery machine, so it is perfect for sequentially numbered draws. You can use the Blyton for draws with up to 360,000 tickets. You can hire the Blyton Lottery Machine from one day to several months.
Combination Draws
A four-from-14 draw has 1,001 combinations, making it perfect for 200 people. Each would get a ticket with five lines, giving people ‘five’ chances to win. We can ensure that all 14 numbers are on every ticket.
You can also run a lottery-style draw. The UK National Lottery, which Allwyn runs, is a six-from-59-balls game and has 45 million combinations of six numbers (45,057,474, to be precise).
While the national lottery’s aim is to raise money for charitable purposes, and there is no guaranteed winner, you can run a similar draw with fewer balls and have a guaranteed winner.
For example, a four-from-14 draw has 1,001 combinations, making it perfect for 200 people. Each person would get a ticket with five lines, giving people ‘five’ chances to win. While their odds of winning are the same, psychologically, it feels better to get five chances than just one.
This style of draw also creates better engagement from your audience: Instead of one number, you call four, and while you still have just one winner, you get 41 other lines with three of the four numbers and 311 lines with two of the four numbers, which means that after two balls the vast majority of your participants will still have a chance of winning, building tension and excitement.
This style of draw requires better active participation, as you have to mark off the numbers on your ticket.
To further enhance engagement with each participant, we can ensure that all 14 numbers are on every ticket. So every number drawn will be on everybody’s ticket at least once.
There is nothing new about this style of draw; it has been popular in social clubs, and it is typically known as Quickie Bingo.
There is one spare combination, and typically, you would not use 1, 2, 3, & 4. The odds of this happening are a minuscule 1 in 1,001, or 0.001%.
Guinevere II Lottery Machine
Guinevere II is perfect for combination draws. It was manufactured by the world’s leading lottery machine maker, which supplies the UK National Lottery with its machines and over 500 lotteries worldwide.
It displays and mixes up to 80 balls. Our white and multicoloured sets both come with verification certificates.
The Guinevere II Lottery machine has been utilised for high-value draws. Originally created for the Washington State Lottery, where it was used in draws totalling $1.4 billion. We have hired the Lottery machine for £1 million draws like Heart FM’s Make Me a Millionaire.
Guinevere II is the perfect lottery machine to hire, it is fully customisable with your branding and is available to rent from 1 day to long term. Call us today.
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*When running a draw, you should verify your lottery balls for size, weight and shape
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