At social events such as company parties, a tombola was often the highlight of the evening. The word is derived from the Italian "tombolare", which could be translated here as "tumbling around" - because the tickets were usually mixed up in a drum before the drawing . In today's times, in which even parties are taking place digitally, the question naturally arises: How can such a drawing of one or more winners be carried out on the computer? One way could be to list the names in an Excel table and to generate a number after each name using the "random number" function. The one with the highest number would win. On the other hand, the tool on the https://namepicker.net/ website is more practical.
Here you can first enter the names of all participants, separated by commas.
In the next step you indicate how many winners there should be.
One click on the blue button “Pick random name (s)” - and the random number generator on the website draws the desired number of names.
And the website also has additional functions: You can automatically remove duplicate names or have the newly crowned winners removed from the pool of participants for further draws.
You can also use the "Add contest information ..." checkbox to pimp up your drawing and add an event title or a logo.
The service is free, but you will have to endure quite a din of banner ads while using it.
The random generator is guaranteed to be incorruptible.
Now our riddle:
How many million euros is the payout in class 1 in the lottery 6 out of 49 limited?
Please send your proposed solution to netzraetsel@faz.de.
The closing date for entries is September 22, 2021, 9 p.m.
In the past week "N" would have been the correct solution, the winner was notified in writing.