Tricky Tray

It was time for a girls night out and I was lucky enough to be invited out to a “Tricky Tray” evening on Saturday night. It was a fundraising night for a local school.

For those who don’t know what a Tricky Tray is, I’ll attempt to describe the intracate process…
Prior to the evening, the school raises a number a prizes which they wrap up in baskets or lots. The baskets are put on display with a box for participants to put tickets in (if they so desire).
On the night of the big event, the participants pay an entrance fee which gives them in this case 15 tickets. They can attempt to win baskets but placing these tickets in the ticket boxes attached to the prizes. The participants can also buy extra tickets to increase their chances of winning. The upon reaching a cut-off time, the organising team work their way through each prize and pull a winning ticket out of the ticket box. Yes, I did say it was an intracate process – needing a well organised army to run it!

Here are some piccies from the evening: our table, one side of the hall and some of our winnings.

The stats: The school in this case raised an impressive 330 prize baskets. There were about 430 participants. I had 33 tickets. So my chances of winning were?
Well I guess you would have to know how many tickets the other participants bought <grin>.
OK, so I didn’t win anything (but three of the girls on my table of eight did) and I had lots of fun trying! Plus it was for a good cause – Van Derveer School Somerville, NJ.