Antiraffle

A raffle in which the item being purchased to take part in said raffle costs the same as or less than its general mall value. Therefore, even if you lose said raffle, you still come out a winner. Say you would put 10 hell ramen (usually costing around 5,000 meat) in your store for their minimum sale price with a limit of one per person. This would be an anti-raffle.

In /c games, many people use a macro to respond to questions of "What's an AR?" and the like. The text of this is as follows: Anti-raffle (n): Similar to a Raffle, this is where an item is sold for lower than its actual cost as the ticket, so even if you don't win, you're still well off. -as defined by HyperKitti

Guide on How to Hold an Antiraffle

A guide to holding an antiraffle in 6 easy steps:

1. Place a number of a certain item in your store, usually 10, to be used as tickets. If the volume of players in chat at the time is high, the number of tickets should probably be higher than 10.
2. Set the limit-per-day for the ticket item to 1. Set the price for the item to the minimum price allowed, or close to it (if the cheapest price for the item in the mall is much more than minimum price).
3. Announce the Antiraffle (using any of these terms; AR, anti, anti-raffle, antiraffle) in chat. Make sure to specify what the tickets are and what the prize is.
4. When all ticket-items have been purchased, have chatbot publicly roll a 1d<number of tickets>, in most cases a 1d10. You can do this by sending /msg chatbot roll 1d10 in games yourself, or by asking for a public 1d10 (in which case someone else will get chatbot to roll). ***NOTE: chatbot requires a wait of five minutes between public rolls by one player, and one minute between public rolls by different players.*** Chatbot will say "Rolling 1dx for y gives z, where x is the number of tickets and y is the name of the person who initiated the chatbot roll.
5. Whatever number z is, check your store purchase log and find the person who purchased the corresponding ticket. If, for example, z turns out to be a 3, find the third person who purchased the ticket-item. (A small minority of people prefer to count down from the top of their store log, in which case a 3 would correspond to the third-to-last person who bought a ticket-item.)
6. Announce the winner in public chat and send them the prize.

Antiraffle Hosting Hints, Tips & Tricks

• Tickets should be an item of value, priced at either minimum sale price, or significantly lower than the mall price. Don't let this discourage you if you don't have any "good" tickets though, anything can be a ticket within reason.
• Make sure you limit the tickets. The most common limit is one per person, but if there is a large number of tickets, a larger limit is generally used. If there are only 90 people in /c games and you place 900 tickets at limit 1, /c games will miss out on your generosity. Don't be afraid to up your limits while in the middle of an antiraffle.
• Be creative with your announcement in games. It's quite fun. I turn all my antiraffle annoucements into a few sentences about the use of the item that is the ticket. But if people don't pick up on subtle hints, don't be afraid to blatantly annouce "Antiraffle in my store".
• After the tickets have sold, roll a die in /c games to determine the winner. A die roll can be accomplished by chatbot by messaging her with "/msg chatbot please roll 1dy in games". Please always roll 'publicly' in games. It's so people don't get suspicious of your antiraffle holding (which they shouldn't, but it's a precaution). When choosing your winner, you can count either from the bottom or the top of your store's purchase log.
• After finding the winner, check and see if they are in /c games. This step is vital as if you are a new hoster of antiraffles; odds are one or more of your tickets will be snapped up by mallbots. Indeed, if you are thinking about holding antiraffles, you may want to ask around in /c games for mallbot names to baleet. If you find a mallbot don't think twice about baleeting them. They won't go away, and not baleeting them will allow them to get more of your tickets. To stop them getting at your store when you have baleeted them check your account and change the settings to "Do not allow ignored people to buy from my store".
• Prizes can be anything. Items, meat, GMA smiles and buffs. It could even be 100 meat. Everyone that gets a ticket in your antiraffle has won already.
• What makes a good ticket? Almost any item is good, as you are naturally running a game for /c games. Anything can be a ticket, but remember the definition of an antiraffle: "when an item is sold for lower than its actual value as the ticket." Meat pastes are generally the only ticket that isn't any good as an antiraffle ticket.
• Finally, if you have any problems don't worry. I personally find /c games to be one of the most fun and enjoyable channels in chat. You're trying to give stuff away! People will respect that and won't hold a grudge if you make a mistake. Just rectify your mistakes. If you have any problems that you don't know how to fix or prevent just ask the people in the channel for help. I'm sure some good soul in there will help you. Anytime, any day.

Guidelines for Playing an Antiraffle

• Please don't ask for antiraffles. In fact, please don't ask for any games while you are in /c games. People get mightily annoyed at this seemingly innocent question.
• Be quick! Anti-raffles generally sell out extremely quickly, especially with the advent of the chat right-click tools.
• Don't moan that the tickets are 'crap' or 'not good enough'. A person is giving stuff away from the generosity of their own hearts. If you don't like it, hold your own games!
• Respect the person holding the anti-raffle. It's their game, what they say goes. Again, if you don't like it, don't participate. Host your own games!
• If a person has accidentally forgotten limits, one method is to buy all the tickets and send them back to the anti-raffle holder, so they can do it again with limits. Sometimes people just abide by the intended 1-ticket limit normally when this happens. It's generally preferred that you just buy the 1 ticket and hope everyone else does the same. But if the tickets are particularly valuable, for example 400 meat per spooky hockey mask, buy them all and send them back promptly. You might even get a reward.
• If you have an issue with an anti-raffle a person is holding, please discuss it in PM or K-mail. Don't openly accuse or flame in chat.
• Anyone, from player ID #1 to #1,000,000,000, can hold an anti-raffle. Enjoy them all.
• Try to congratulate the winner. It's a nice touch to the anti-raffle system when people congratulate you and vice versa.
• Finally, if you get a ticket, thank the hoster. It's their generosity you are enjoying and benefitting from.
• If the person forgets limits, please give all the stuff back so they can redo it.If you keep all the tickets for yourself you will be very disliked in /c games.

Variations

• Ascension-friendly AntiRaffle (AAR), in which the holder asks for the first 10 or so Kmails or chat blue-messages, and then distributes the tickets via packages (usually limited to Hardcore or Ronin players). A Hardcore or Ronin player who wins an AAR should be sent the prize in a package as well.

• Compound AntiRaffle (cAR), in which multiple tickets are provided, and a single roll determines multiple winners. For example, if there are 5 tickets, and the roll comes up a 6, then the five winners are the players who bought each item sixth. Of course, players may buy one of every ticket if they like (and are able).

• Anti-AntiRaffle, where there is a very low number of tickets (usually 5) which are very good items, while the prize is something relatively stinky (i.e. the ticket itself is the prize). Example: 5 spooky hockey mask tickets, 10 cans of ice-cold Sir Schlitz as prize.

See Also

• Look at the list of Games Rules for information on other games that can be hosted.