The raffle is a board game.
Raffle is a notion used to name a type of raffle that usually takes place at a fair . The organizer, at first, distributes cards with numbers. Then he begins to extract the balls and announces the numbers that are drawn. The winner of the raffle is the one who has the greatest number of numbers drawn on his card .
It is a traditional board game from the Italian city of Naples , emerged in the 18th century as a homemade alternative to the popular lotto . It is worth mentioning that in the original version it was common to associate each number with a meaning, usually humorous, such as those present in the book of dreams , where 2 is "the girl" , 14 is "the drunk" , 42 is "the coffee" and 53 is "the old man" , for example.
History of the raffle
Some believe that the raffle arose from an argument between the priest Gregorio María Rocco and King Charles II of Spain about the lotus, in which the former wanted to cancel it since he considered it immoral for religious reasons, and the latter suggested subjecting it to public control . to prevent the emergence of a clandestine version.
Finally, they reached an agreement whereby the game would be prohibited during Christmas , and it was then that many families began to recreate the lotto experience at home . Even today it is common in Italy to play the raffle at Christmas time.
Chance determines the development of the raffle.
The professionals
Raffle professionals are able to play with several groups of cards at the same time (let's not forget that in each one there are six cards with the numbers from 1 to 90 without repetitions).
To cope with the increased difficulty, some resort to the "French method" , which consists of using a single bean per line , starting by placing one to the left of each line. Each time a number is announced, the corresponding bean must be advanced to the next empty box, thus counting the number of correct answers per line; When you get all the numbers on a line, you simply have to position the bean to the right of it.
The guinea pig tombola
In some South American nations, guinea pig tombola is played. Unlike the traditional raffle, in this case the numbers are not drawn from a roll , but rather boxes are numbered in a cage. There is a guinea pig (a rodent also known as a guinea pig , cuis or guinea pig ): the animal , frightened, will choose a box to hide. This is how the number drawn is determined.
The guinea pig raffle is another form of animal exploitation and, as such, should not continue to exist. Although in this particular case there is not a high degree of violence, the guinea pig does not live in freedom, it does not decide what to do with its own time but is condemned to live in a cage until its owner (a term that should never be used to describe a relationship between two living beings and that shows how much we still have to learn) decides to take him out to help him carry out his work.
Other uses of the concept
Tómbola , on the other hand, is a neighborhood that belongs to the Spanish town of Alicante . According to demographic data, just over two thousand people live in Tómbola .
Also in Spain , "Tómbola" is the name of a television program that was broadcast between 1997 and 2004 , which consisted of interviews with famous people.
In 1962 , a Spanish film titled "Tómbola" was released, which in Latin America became known as "Los enredos de Marisol" . The film was directed by Luis Lucia .
"La vida tómbola" , finally, is a song by Manu Chao , included on the album "La radiolina" that he released in 2007 . The song can be heard in a documentary about Diego Armando Maradona directed by Serbian Emir Kusturica .