[nfbcs] Drawings

[Steve Jacobson]

Aaron,

If a row is created for each ticket purchased, that really should take care
of multiple ticket purchases by increasing the chance.  If duplicate rows
cause a problem, one could number each of the duplicate rows to make them
unique.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Drawings

This can easily be done with Excel.

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/03/how-to-sort-a-list-randomly-in-excel/

After the steps in that article, the person in the top row is the winner.

If you need more winners, how you get them will depend on whether you want
to exclude people who have already won, or not. Also, this technique will
result in each person having an equal chance of winning. This is great for
door prizes, but not so great for raffles, where the more tickets a person
buys, the more likely they are to win.
  

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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 14:32, Steve & Shannon Cook via nfbcs
<nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> Could someone recommend a way to put a list of names in a software program
> and have the computer draw the winner?  I am looking in to a new way for
> door prizes for our state convention in October.  Using JAWS 17 and
Windows
> 10.  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Steve Cook
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> Steve on Twitter: @SteveCook67
> 
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