I've been asked to support DH at a local Regatta by running a tombola at a stall. It's for a military veterans charity he volunteers at.
We don't have a pile of tat to use as prizes, so the plan (all above board, checked with the charity trustees etc) is to buy in stock for the tombola, recoup the costs at the end of the 2 days then the "profit" is what the charity gets.
I'm struggling to work out volumes of what to buy though! I canvassed the local Facebook group for ideas for what to have on the tombola, so it's going to be small sweets - Refreshers bars, small bags of Haribo, I'll look for vegan sweeties, and a few larger prizes to tempt people in.
So, busy Regatta, two days, would 5000 tickets be too many? How about 1000?
Winning tickets will be numbers 0 & 5, so 1:4 tickets will win, so I'll need to have the right proportions of prizes. Plus spares for inevitable cock ups / offering vegan or coeliac friendly prizes if people want them maybe?
HELP! I'M OVERTHINKING IT AND CONFUSING MYSELF!