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Texas Lottery It Ain't

But, you can still throw your name in the hat for some good old fashioned name drawing. Copy and paste names from your rosters or favorite Excel spreadsheets to design your own lottery, but be sure that you provide the proper format as shown in the "super" example below.

Carefully design your drawing:

Title of Lottery:

Number of Winners:

In the text area below, paste a set of candidates along with their number of tickets (the more entries, the more likely they are entered into the lottery) Separate the candidates from the weights with a semi-colon (;). If ticket numbers are omitted all candidates have equal chances at winning.

To exclude someone from the lottery, enter '0' for their ticket. For a single chance, enter a '1' for their ticket.

Put each entry on a separate line. Info may be created and copied directly from Excel or other electronic sources.

Example Entries: (you can copy and paste this group of people as a test case!)

Clark Kent; 8
Peter Parker; 15
Hal Jordan; 3
Barry Allen; 13
Wilma Flintstone
Sue Storm; 1
Bruce Wayne; 0

Candidates and Tickets: (Name; Number of Tickets)

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Weighted Designer Lottery