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Match three of the same prize to win it. Keep the names short: they are printed in the panels.
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Cards print eight to an A4 or Letter page. Cover each panel area with a scratch-off sticker (sold in rolls online) before you sell them, and keep the prize key away from the sellers. Nothing is sent anywhere: the cards are made in your browser, so print or save them before you close the page.
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- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
The scratch card maker builds a set of printable match-three scratch cards for a school fair, a club night or a charity fundraiser. Tell it how many cards you need, what each card costs and the prizes you have, and it makes exactly that many winners, shuffled at random among the cards. Every card gets a number, and you print a separate prize key so whoever hands out prizes can check a card in seconds.
How the scratch card maker works
Each card has six or nine panels. A winning card has one prize name three times and nothing else three times; a losing card never has three of anything, though it will have pairs, because a near miss is half the fun of a scratch card. The prize names go in the panels, so keep them short: “£20 voucher”, “Wine”, “Cake”. Filler symbols like stars and hearts fill the rest.
Say you’re selling 100 cards at £2 with two £20 vouchers, five bottles of wine, ten cakes and fifteen free coffees. That’s 32 winners, so the odds of winning a prize are 1 in 3.1, which feels generous on the night, and if every card sells you take £200. If the prizes were donated, all of it goes to the cause; if you bought them, take their cost off first.
Printing and covering the panels
Cards print eight to a page on A4 or US Letter. Use card rather than paper if you can, 250 gsm or heavier, so nobody reads the panels against a window. Then cover each panel area. The easiest way is scratch-off stickers, sold in rolls of a few hundred; the more crafty route is a mix of acrylic paint and washing-up liquid painted over a strip of clear tape. Either way, cover the panels before the cards leave your hands.
- Print the cards and the prize key in one go, and keep the key with the organiser, not the sellers.
- Download the key as a CSV too, so a lost printout isn’t a disaster.
- Shuffle the printed cards before selling. They’re already random, but a shuffle stops anyone guessing from the order.
- Mark each card on the key as it’s claimed, so the same card can’t be paid twice.
Getting the prize mix right
A good fundraiser card has lots of small wins and a couple of bigger ones. With one winner in three or four, people see someone near them win, which sells the next round. Too many big prizes and you raise less; too few winners and the table goes quiet. The CasinoCalcs raffle ticket price calculator helps you set the price against your prize costs, and if you’d rather run a straight draw, the raffle ticket generator and raffle ticket tracker cover that.
A word on the rules: small events are usually easy, but selling cards in advance or to the public can bring in local lottery rules. Check what applies where you are before the cards go on sale.