Free Raffle Ticket Templates

A raffle ticket is two documents on one strip of card: the part the buyer keeps, and the stub with their name and number that goes into the drum. Both halves carry the same number, and that number is the whole mechanism — without it, you can’t match a drawn stub to the person holding the winning ticket. The free templates below are editable MS Word files, and beneath them you’ll find how to number a whole sheet automatically, what has to be printed on a ticket, and the rules worth checking before you sell one.

The Ticket and the Stub

Every raffle ticket has a perforated or scored line dividing it into two parts:

• The ticket — kept by the buyer. It shows the number, the prize, the draw date, and how winners will be notified.
• The stub — torn off by the seller and dropped in the drum. It shows the same number plus the buyer’s name and phone number.

That matching number is what distinguishes a raffle ticket from an event ticket. An event ticket admits someone; a raffle ticket has to be traceable back to a named person after the fact. If you print tickets without numbers, or with the same number on every ticket, the raffle doesn’t work — and this is the most common mistake people make with home-printed tickets.

What Must Be Printed on a Raffle Ticket

Between practical necessity and the rules that apply in most places, a ticket should carry:

• The organization’s or promoter’s name — who is running the raffle.
• The ticket number, matching the stub.
• The ticket price.
• The prize or prizes, described specifically. “Hamper” invites arguments; “food and drink hamper, value £75” doesn’t.
• The draw date, time and location.
• How winners will be notified — called on the day, phoned afterwards, posted on a page.
• A contact — phone number or email for queries.
• Any registration or license number, where your jurisdiction requires one.
• Age restriction, where it applies.

On the stub half: the number again, plus name and phone number lines, and email if you’ll draw after the event. Leave enough room to write legibly — stubs filled in standing up at a stall with a biro are the ones you can’t read when you’ve drawn the winner.

Raffle Ticket Example

STUB — RETAINED BY SELLER No. 0147 Name: ______________ Phone: ______________ Email: ______________

RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST Grand Summer Raffle · Registered lottery no. 00000 No. 0147 Price: £2 per ticket 1st prize: Weekend break for two, value £350 2nd prize: Food and drink hamper, value £75 3rd prize: £50 garden centre voucher Draw: Saturday 4 July 2026, 4pm, Mill Lane Community Hall Winners need not be present — notified by phone within 48 hours and posted at the hall. Over 16s only · Queries: 01000 000204

Note the number appears twice, large, on both halves — big enough to read across a table when you’re matching a drawn stub to a ticket someone’s produced from their pocket. And note “winners need not be present,” which saves you from a prize going unclaimed because the holder went home at three.

Free Raffle Ticket Templates in MS Word

Each template below is editable in Word — replace the organization name, prizes, and draw details, then number the sheet using the method in the next section.

Simple Raffle Ticket Template

A plain two-part ticket with a stub, number field, and space for prize and draw details — the quickest to fill in and the cheapest to print in black and white.

50/50 Raffle Ticket Template

Designed for a 50/50 draw, where the prize is half the ticket revenue — includes wording space for explaining the split to buyers.

Source: hloom

 

Print several free Raffle Tickets of your own choice and tailor them as per your particular requirements. Being in MS Word, it is quite easy to edit this Ticket Template for any situation possible.

 

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50/50 Raffle Ticket Design

Check out this wonderful Raffle Ticket Template to guide you on how to create your own 50/50 Raffle Ticket Design very easily.

 

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Blue Raffle Ticket Template

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Simple Raffle Ticket Template

Here is a preview of this Simple Raffle Ticket Template to help get started with designing your Raffle Ticket.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to Number Tickets Automatically

Nobody should type four hundred numbers by hand. Word’s mail merge will do the whole run, and once set up it takes about five minutes:

1. Make a numbered list. In Excel, put a heading like Ticket in cell A1, then 1, 2, 3 in A2, A3, A4. Select those three, drag the fill handle down to however many tickets you need, and save the file.
2. Lay out one ticket per sheet section in Word — or better, arrange several tickets on the page using a table, one ticket per cell.
3. Mailings ? Start Mail Merge ? Directory. Directory is the setting that puts multiple records on one page; “Letters” would give you one ticket per sheet and waste most of the paper.
4. Mailings ? Select Recipients ? Use an Existing List, and choose your Excel file.
5. Put the cursor where the number goes and click Insert Merge Field ? Ticket. Do it again for the stub half, so both halves carry the same field.
6. Copy the whole ticket into the other cells on the page, then add Rules ? Next Record at the start of each subsequent ticket. Without that, every ticket on the sheet prints the same number.
7. Finish & Merge ? Edit Individual Documents, which generates the full numbered run as a new document you can check before printing.

Two things to verify on the first sheet before committing to the whole print run: that the stub and ticket halves show the same number, and that the numbers advance between tickets rather than repeating. Getting one of those wrong and printing five hundred is a specific and avoidable kind of bad afternoon.

Printing, Cutting and Perforating

• Print on cardstock — 160 to 200 gsm. Tickets handled at a stall, folded into pockets and pulled from a drum need to survive it, and thin paper tears at the wrong line.
• Fit six to ten tickets per sheet. A standard raffle ticket is roughly 2 × 5 inches, which gives eight to a letter or A4 page with sensible margins.
• Score rather than perforate. Home printers can’t perforate, but running an empty ballpoint along a ruler where the fold goes gives a clean tear line. For larger runs, pre-perforated ticket stock is available, or a print shop can perforate for you.
• Cut with a guillotine or trimmer, not scissors — hundreds of hand-cut tickets look exactly like hundreds of hand-cut tickets.
• Print a test sheet first, tear one, and write on a stub with the pen you’ll actually use at the stall. Glossy card and biro don’t cooperate.

Running the Raffle

• Sell in books — tickets in runs of ten or twenty, issued to each seller with the number range recorded against their name. It’s how you reconcile cash to tickets at the end.
• Keep a log of ticket numbers — issued, sold, unsold, and cash taken per seller. Without it you can’t tell whether a book came back short.
• Check the stub is filled in before it goes in the drum. An unmarked stub is an unclaimable prize.
• Draw in public where you can, with someone independent pulling the stubs, and write the winning numbers down as they come out.
• Announce the winning numbers publicly as well as contacting winners, and say in advance where they’ll be posted.
• Keep the drawn stubs and the log until every prize is claimed and any reporting is done.

Rules and Registration

Raffles are a form of lottery, and lotteries are regulated in most countries — which surprises a lot of people running a first fundraiser.

The details vary considerably, but the common themes are worth knowing. Many jurisdictions require charity and society raffles to be registered or licensed before tickets are sold, sometimes with the local authority and sometimes with a national gambling regulator. There are often rules about who may sell tickets and to whom, including minimum ages. Some places limit prize values or total ticket sales before a heavier license is needed, restrict cash prizes, or prohibit selling tickets to the general public without one. And several require specific information to be printed on the ticket itself, including the promoter’s name and the registration number.

In some US states raffles are restricted to particular categories of organization, and a few prohibit them outright. Online ticket sales usually attract additional rules.

None of that is a reason not to run a raffle — small fundraising raffles are commonplace everywhere. It’s a reason to spend ten minutes checking your own jurisdiction’s requirements before you print, because the requirements often affect what has to appear on the ticket, and reprinting five hundred tickets is worse than reading one web page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I number raffle tickets in Word?

Use mail merge with a numbered list from Excel: set the merge type to Directory, insert the number field on both the ticket and the stub, add a Next Record rule before each subsequent ticket on the sheet, then merge to a new document. The step-by-step is above.

Why do raffle tickets have two parts?

One half stays with the buyer and one half goes in the drum, both carrying the same number. The stub records the buyer’s name and phone number so a drawn number can be matched to a person; the ticket is their proof of purchase.

What information should be on a raffle ticket?

The organization’s name, the ticket number, the price, the prizes, the draw date and location, how winners will be notified, a contact, and any license or registration number your jurisdiction requires. The stub needs the same number plus name and contact lines.

What size is a raffle ticket?

Around 2 × 5 inches is standard, which fits eight to a letter or A4 sheet. Anything much smaller leaves too little room to write legibly on the stub.

How do I perforate raffle tickets at home?

You can’t truly perforate without equipment, but scoring works: run an empty ballpoint pen along a ruler on the fold line and the card tears cleanly. For larger runs, use pre-perforated ticket stock or have a print shop perforate the sheets.

What is a 50/50 raffle?

A draw where the prize is half the money taken in ticket sales and the organizer keeps the other half. Because the prize isn’t known until sales close, the ticket needs to explain the split rather than name a prize — and some jurisdictions treat cash-prize raffles differently, so check the rules before running one.

Do I need a license to run a raffle?

Often yes. Raffles are regulated as lotteries in most countries, and charity or society raffles frequently need registration with a local authority or gambling regulator before tickets go on sale. Rules on prize values, who may sell, age limits, and what must be printed on the ticket all vary — check your own jurisdiction before printing.