How we pick winners
Most of the time you will not need this page. The draw happens in front of the room, and everyone watching sees the same thing at the same moment. This is for anyone who wants to know what holds when they are not in the room.
Three things are true of every draw
They are true whichever way the raffle was set up, and they do not depend on trusting anyone's word for it.
Nobody can influence who wins
The pick is made when the host starts the draw, and geRaff has no way to choose the outcome. There is no override, no seeding, no way to weight one entry over another. That is a property of how the draw is built, not a policy geRaff follows.
Nobody can enter once the draw starts
Entries close the moment the draw begins. Nothing can be added after that point, so the list the winner comes from is the list everyone could already see.
The result is recorded and cannot be quietly changed
Every draw is written down when it happens, with the entries it drew from. If a host cancels a winner and draws again, that is recorded too.
Usually you can just watch
If you entered a raffle where the host was standing there, you already have the strongest version of this: every entry was made through the raffle's own page before the draw ran, and the draw ran on the screen in front of you.
When the link is out in the world
A raffle open to anyone with the link publishes its own Official Rules, and those rules say who can enter and how the winner is chosen for that raffle. They govern.
Entering is free on every raffle, and no one can buy entries or better odds on any of them.
See our No Purchase Necessary policy →Want the full picture? See how the whole raffle process works →