Queen of Hearts raffle FAQ

A progressive raffle. Players buy tickets and put each one on a numbered card on a board of 54 face-down cards. Each drawing, one ticket is drawn and its card is turned over. If it’s the Queen of Hearts, that player wins the jackpot. If not, they win a smaller weekly prize and the jackpot keeps growing.

Open the raffle page your organization shared, check the board to see which cards are still face down, pick a ticket bundle, select your card numbers and check out with a card. Your ticket numbers and card selections come to you by email.

Every raffle has its own page. Use the link your organization shared, or look for it on their website or Facebook page. If you can’t find it, ask them directly.

Yes. You can put several ticket numbers on the same card, or spread them across as many face-down cards as you like.

Yes. Any number of players can put tickets on the same card number. Only the drawn ticket’s card gets turned over.

Two things have to happen. Your ticket has to be drawn, and your chance of that is your tickets divided by all the tickets in that drawing. Then your card has to be the Queen, which is 1 in however many cards are still face down. Fewer cards left means better odds on that second part.

That depends on the organization’s rules. Online games usually don’t require it, since players can be anywhere. Check the rules posted on the raffle page.

The result of every drawing posts to the raffle page right away, including the card that was revealed. The organization contacts winners the way its rules describe.

The revealed card stays face up and comes out of play, the ticket holder wins the weekly prize, and the jackpot rolls over to the next drawing.

It doesn’t matter. The drawing picks a ticket first and then reveals that ticket’s card. A card nobody selected can’t come up.

Until the Queen is found. That can be the first week or more than a year, especially if the jokers reset the board.

The organization’s rules decide. Some treat a joker like any other card, some pay a bonus, and some reset the board so every card goes back face down while the jackpot keeps growing.

That’s set by the organization’s rules and often by state law. A common setup sends part of each drawing’s sales to the weekly winner, part to the jackpot and the rest to the organization. Some games use fixed prizes by card instead.

A planned final drawing. The organization announces a date, then keeps drawing tickets until the Queen of Hearts is revealed. It’s the usual way to end a game when the jackpot reaches a permit’s prize cap.

Usually not. Most games sell a new round of tickets for each drawing, and only that round’s tickets go in. The organization’s rules spell out how it works.

Click Start Your Raffle and tell us about your organization and your game. We review it, build your Queen of Hearts website, and you connect your payment processor, set your rules and go live.

Usually a few days once we have your information and your payment processor is connected. Flux Payments applications are often approved the same or next day.

No. Your organization runs the fundraiser. Chance2Win builds the website and provides the tools your team uses to run it, and we’re on the phone when you need us.

Yes. Cash and check sales at your post or hall get entered in your dashboard and go into the same drawing as online sales.

Yes. Weekly is the classic, but daily, every two weeks and monthly all work. Pick a day and time and stick to it.

Yes. Your raffle page and board carry your organization’s name, logo and colors.

Yes. Seller teams can each track their own sales, which makes for a little friendly competition.

Yes. Ticket money goes straight to your organization’s merchant account. Chance2Win never holds your funds.

It depends on your state, and we can’t tell you for sure. Some states treat Queen of Hearts differently from a regular fundraising raffle, and many make no distinction. Check with your state’s gaming or charitable gaming office before you sell tickets. This is not legal advice.

Most likely. Raffles generally need a license or permit, sometimes from your county or city as well. Your state’s regulator can tell you exactly what you need.

Yes. One winning ticket is drawn at random from all the tickets in that drawing, online and in person. The card assigned to that ticket is then decrypted and revealed, it’s out of play from then on, and every drawing is recorded.

No. Card positions on the digital board are encrypted and hidden from everyone, including us, until a card is revealed.

On Supporter Paid, nothing to your organization, and supporters pay a 12% service charge at checkout. On Organization Paid, it starts at $329 per fundraiser and scales with how much the raffle raises.

Premium usually comes out ahead once a raffle passes about $8,000 to $10,000 in ticket sales. Below that, Supporter Paid is hard to beat. Call us and we’ll walk through your numbers.

Yes. One Stop Raffle Shop has a free Queen of Hearts board kit with an 11 by 17 board, envelope number cards, a drawing log and a jackpot tracker spreadsheet.