Abstract: For a raffle tournament game, randomly selecting a predetermined number of event codes, for each event code, randomly selecting a playing symbol from O to 9 for each place value of the total number of tickets dispensed to players up to one of the following; zero place values away from the total, one place value away from the total, two place values away from the total, three place values away from the total, four place values away from the total, five place values away from the total, six place values away from the total, seven place values away from the total, eight place values away from the total, nine place values away from the total, the event code identifies playing symbols which need to match the specific subset of playing symbols on the raffle array, whereby matching raffle array to event code wins an entry into a tournament event,