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Giveaway draw

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 Create your own giveaway and pick a random winner live with Lucky Draw Plus.  Fully customisable background Draw winning names, ticket numbers, phone numbers, usernames Fully random Entries in any language or character set Super-fast and easy DIY setup Online live draws Get more customers and have some fun! Try it free:  www.luckydraw.plus

Tombola - spin to see what you win - run your own fundraiser

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  Fun fundraising idea for charities - let kids spin the wheel to pick their own prize in a Tombola lucky draw. You can offer many low cost prizes, like bubbles, stickers, candyfloss, and some more special toys. Everyone is a winner! Accept a small donation per spin. Use any device for the draws, like a laptop, tablet or even mobile to let the kids do their own draw. Even better if you have access to a big screen or projection facilities so all the onlookers can see the draws too. You can do it all live with Lucky Draw Plus .

Lucky Draw Plus video - Animation

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  Lucky Draw Plus uses animation for your Lucky Draw to scroll your entries and show your random winner. But you can add your own animated gifs too. Use the logo space on the left of the screen, or use the whole background. Look for animated gifs online. Pixabay is an example free site. Just make sure you follow the rules for free use. Have fun! Contact us anytime for support on  support@luckydraw.plus . Turn your Lucky Draw into a Lucky Draw Plus. YouTube channel

Lucky Draw Plus video - More on images

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  You want  the lucky draw you create to look great when you run it live for your audience. Maybe you've watched our Get started video on customising your draw look. Here we'll get a bit more technical on the topic, and look at logo placement tricks, logo transparency, and screen layout – which areas to avoid. Your Lucky Draw Plus screen area is made up of a background image and up to two optional logos on the left. We call them logos, but they can be any image or text saved as an image file. You can use .jpg/.jpeg, .bmp, .gif (can be animated) and .png (can be transparent). You upload them in the Settings screen, on the Appearance tab. Use transparent .pngs for your logos if you want the background to show through. Here are our logos on white and on transparent backgrounds. The logo width will be set to 1/4 of your screen width. My screen is 1600 pixels wide, so one quarter would be 400 px. If I used any of the logos on the right, Lucky Draw Plus would resize them either up o...

Lucky Draw Plus video - More on entries

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  Lucky Draw Plus picks a random winner from a list of entries you need to make. We have a Get started video called Load entries if you need the basics, but here we're going to look at some extra tricks, like short lists, randomising your entries list, and weighting the chances that each entry can win. If you only have a few entries in your list, maybe a small party, the draw doesn't look good. Repeat your entries to make your list fuller. If you put everyone on the list the same number of times, they all still have the same chance of winning.  If you want to weight your list so that some entries have more chance of winning, put some entries in more often. Here my customers will spin for their own discount. I'm putting in one chance of winning 50% off, a few each for the next best prizes, and then I'm letting the smaller discounts have more chance of winning so I don't go broke. Finally, your entries will scroll in the same order as your list if your list is sorted,...

Lucky Draw Plus video - Change timing

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  Lucky Draw Plus is easy to use software to pick a random winner live. Change the timing of your draw in the Settings on the Behaviour tab. The draw we just saw was only 7 seconds long with sound in the last 2 seconds, but you can let your draw run for as long as you like. Let the sound effects play for your whole draw, or bring them in just before the end. Change the speed by choosing how many entries will scroll. I have a file with 1000 entries. If you choose a time of 20 seconds for your draw, and you show 50 of your entries in that time the speed looks like this. If you want to scroll 500 entries in that same 20 seconds, the speed looks like this. Play around till you get a speed you like, that suits your event perfectly. Your winner is always picked from your FULL list of entries, even if not all of them scroll on the screen in every draw. Look out for our Get technical video Is it random for more on how the random name picker works. Contact us any time for support on  s...

Lucky Draw Plus video - Change look

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  Lucky Draw Plus is about you doing your own draw for your own audience, so how do you make it your own? Let's say you have this background and these logos. Lets go to Settings. Give your draw a name. I'm changing the draw name to white text.  Upload your background and your two logos and save your changes. Lucky Draw Plus will place them on the left one under the other, so the position of the images will change if the logos are shorter or taller. Your other options is to put all the artwork you want into one single background image and switch the logos and name off. This way you can place the logos on the right or anywhere you want them. Make the size of your background image match the resolution of the screen you're going to present your Lucky Draw on. It might not look good while you are setting up on your laptop, but it will look right when you go fullscreen for your final draw. Watch some of our Get technical videos for more on screen size and on working with images. ...

Lucky Draw Plus video - Load entries

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  Lucky Draw Plus is about picking random names or winning entries, so you need to load entries to pick from. Put your entries in a spreadsheet or a CSV. You should have headings for your columns, any name, and  your file can have any name. Now load your file into Lucky Draw Plus and you're ready to do your draw. Your entries can be in any language or character set. We don't store your entries in our database, except for the winner of each draw for your records.. You can use up to three columns in your file. If you have more columns, the rest of the columns on the right will be ignored. It's easier than putting all those thousands of names into a hat! Contact us anytime for support on support@luckydraw.plus . Turn your Lucky Draw into a Lucky Draw Plus. Check out our  YouTube channel for more videos on how to use Lucky Draw Plus software, and get inspired by lucky draw ideas.

Lucky Draw Plus video - What is it?

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 Lucky Draw Plus is easy to use online software to create your own lucky draw and pick a random winner live. Upload your entries - using numbers, names or both, in any language. Use your own background and logos to change the look and feel of your draw and choose how fast your entries will spin, and for how long. Use lucky draw Plus for in-person or virtual events. It's free to register and do as many test draws as you like. Buy credits only when you're ready for your final live draws. Contact us any time for support on support@luckydraw.plus . Turn your Lucky Draw into a Lucky Draw Plus. It's a win-win! YouTube channel

Fun Mother's Day idea - create a digital lucky draw and let her pick her own gift

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Set up a fun Lucky Draw for your mother or grandmother as a special treat for this Mother's Day. It takes just minutes and you can do it free of charge. Register for Lucky Draw Plus to run an online draw. Choose a beautiful free background from a stock image website. Think of a list of gifts you can give your mother. They can be free gifts of your time, or some could be paid gifts. Let her spin the wheel to pick her own random gift! You can use a laptop or tablet. You can do it in any language. Or adapt it for other special days, like birthdays. Watch our videos if you need help making your list of gifts to load for the draw or customising your draw look with your special Mother's Day background. We'll give you 5 free draw credits when you sign up in the month before Mother's Day, so you could do this totally free! Contact us any time for support at  support@luckydraw.plus Get started

Host your own St Patrick's Day lucky draw - easy, quick and cheap

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Set up an online Lucky Draw for your St Patricks Day event in just minutes free of charge. Register for Lucky Draw Plus. Use our default background as is. Or choose your own free background from a stock image website. Give out tickets at the door and draw ticket numbers for one big prize. Or let everyone do their own random spin as they come in, and give each person an inexpensive prize. Get some ideas from the random draw list in the picture. Watch our videos if you need help making your entries list. or customising your draw look. We'll give you 5 free draw credits when you sign up in the week before St Patrick's Day, so you could run 5 draws totally free - it's your lucky day! Contact us any time for support at  support@luckydraw.plus Get started

Work initiative participation draw

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  Introducing a initiative and need buy-in from your staff or team? Enter people who participate into a lucky draw and give away prizes. In this example, an Indonesian company holds a draw for staff members who wear traditional batik clothing to work on Fridays. Prizes don't need to have a monetary value if you're on a budget - think office privileges, like a day off, jumping to the head of the queue in the staff cafeteria or getting the best parking spot for a week.  Adapt the idea to anywhere where you need participation - from survey or task completion to attendance at events.

Secret Santa member draw

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  Include a lucky draw at the Christmas party for your club, society or interest group. Draw ten random winner's names from your member list to give gifts to. Project or show on a big screen for all the members to see during the party. To encourage attendance, only award the prize if the member is there.

Follower shoutout draw

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Use a Lucky Draw to reward social media interactions on your channel - draw a random winner from your followers or community live. You can weight the draw if you like so that people have a higher chance of winning the more interactions they had - or weight all entrants equally. Mark major milestones with prize giveaways.

Diwali gift giveaway draw

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  Host a lucky draw at Diwali or any celebration traditionally associated with gift giving. Pick a random name from a list of your guests, audience or customers to give a gift to. Use beautiful images as your background to make things stunning for your audience.

Fundraising raffle draw

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Raffles are a classic for fundraising. Don't just pick names out of a hat - draw your winner online with amazing visuals and exciting sound effects. If your draw is at an event with an audience, put it up on a big screen for them. If you're doing the draw without a live audience, stream it, or record it and put on your social media as a record for participants of who won, and that the draw was truly random.

Birthday party draw

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Birthday party lucky draw - surprise the party guests with a fun lucky draw. Maybe you're giving away guest prizes, maybe it's to pick who is next to participate in a game. Who gets to help the birthday girl attack the pinata?? Or switch it up and let the guest of honour spin for one of several possible prizes you put in the draw entries list, or they pick from a list of which party game to play next.

Grand Opening prize draw

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Having a Grand Opening? Include a lucky draw! Give people tickets at the door as they enter, then pick a random ticket number for each prize. Publicise your draw ahead of time, and get more customers to attend your event. If you don't already have a Lucky Draw Plus account, try it out here: Register free Contact us anytime for support setting up your Lucky Draw on  support@luckydraw.plus

Pub lucky draw

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Hold a lucky draw and quiz night to attract in customers to your pub.  Give out tickets at the door and then draw the lucky ticket winners randomly throughout the night. Show on the big screen for all to see. Repeat weekly or monthly on usually slow nights to increase footfall. Adapt the idea for your member's club, sports club, interest group - wherever you want to increase attendance.

Delegate giveaway draw

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Draw a lucky winner's name from your conference delegates list and give away prizes.  Hold the draw after your last conference session to keep everyone there till the end!

Contest winner's draw

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 Draw a random winner for your contest with a superbly branded Lucky Draw either at a live prizegiving event, or during a virtual draw that you broadcast to entrants. Set up your draw in Lucky Draw Plus, choose your background images and timing and sound effect settings for your draw, upload your list of contest entrants, and draw your winner or winners live. Full audit trail of time and date and winning entries kept in your draw history table. You can draw by winner's name, customer number, ticket number, or a combination - in any language!

Mother's Day gift draw

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Show appreciation for a loved one by letting them do a fun lucky spin for their own gift from a list of options you make up. You can choose some gifts you will have to pay for, or just offer your time if you're on a budget. Let them spin more than once and end up giving them all the gifts! Adapt the idea for Mother's or Father's Day, Valentine's Day, a birthday or anniversary - any special occasion for a loved one.

Discount draw

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Get customers into your business by letting them pick their own random discount on special days. Normally Lucky Draw Plus is where you pick a random winner’s name. But you can let people spin for their own prizes or discounts as well. Make an entries file with whatever discounts you want to offer. Decide how many high and how many low discounts to put in. Include some non-winning options if you like. Have a laptop, tablet or even a mobile phone at the checkout. The customers spin while you ring up their purchases. Contact us if you need support setting up your discount Lucky Draw Plus on support@luckydraw.plus  If you don't already have a Lucky Draw Plus account, try it out here:  Register free Watch the video: