What type of drawing and settings should I use for my prize drawing?

Within Challenges > Drawings, library administrators, library curators, library branch administrators, and school media specialists plus can create a wide array of drawings to reward readers.

When creating a drawing, first pick the type of drawing:

• Ticket Drawing to pick winners from readers who deposited tickets toward a specific ticket prize option in a challenge.
• General Drawing to pick from readers who meet custom eligibility and drawing settings.

The following general drawing types allow you to set parameters for drawing qualification based on:

• All Eligible Readers: pick from any readers that meet your eligibility criteria.

• Specific Earned Badge(s): draw from all readers who earned a selected badge or earned one badge in a group of selected badges.

• Total Books/Days/Minutes/Pages Read: pick from readers who logged a specified amount of reading for a log type. You’ll want to select the log type that your site or challenge tracks to have accurate qualifiers.

• Total Earned Badges: draw from all readers who earned a specified number of badges from among all badge types—including registration and completion badges.

• Total Points Earned: pick from readers who earned a specified number of points.

• Total Reviews: draw from all readers who submitted a specified number of book reviews.

You can then select specific drawing settings like number of winners.

There are a few common drawing setups we get questions about. Here are a few example scenarios!

• I want to select two winners per branch for my spring challenge’s 3D pen ticket prize.
  • Drawing Name: Challenge Name Year Prize Branch, e.g. Spring 2022 3D Pen: East Branch
  • Drawing Type: Ticket Drawing
    
  • Library Branch: Select the first branch
  • Challenge: Select the specific ticket challenge from the dropdown
  • Ticket Prize Settings: Select the 3D pen ticket prize option
    
  • Number of Winners: 2
  • Once saved, duplicate the drawing, give it a unique name for the next branch, change the branch selection to the second branch, and save. Repeat for all branches.
• I want to set up a grand prize drawing to pick three winners from among all the users who read at least 20 hours during summer reading.
  
  • Drawing Type: General Drawing 
  • Start and End Dates: The beginning and end of summer reading, i.e., June 1 and July 31
  • General Drawing Settings: Total Minutes Read
  • Minimum to Qualify: 1200
  • Number of Winners: 3
    
• I want to create a grand prize drawing based on completion of a specific challenge that gives extra entries to readers who earned the extra “stretch” badges. 
  
  • Drawing Type: General Drawing
  • Challenge: Select the specific challenge from dropdown
  • General Drawing Settings: Specific Earned Badge(s)
  • Select Badges: Select the completion badge and all stretch badges in your challenge
  • Is the drawing weighted?: Yes
• I would like to set up weekly prize drawings that incorporate anyone who read a book during that week.
  • Drawing Name: Challenge Name Year Week, e.g., Oceans of Possibility 2022 Week 1
  • Drawing Type: General Drawing
  • Start and End Date: First day and last day of first week, e.g., Sunday to Saturday.
  • General Drawing Settings: Total Books Read
  • Minimum to Qualify: 1
    
  • Once saved, duplicate the drawing, give it a unique name (e.g., Week 2), and change the dates to the first day and last day of the second week. Repeat for all weeks.
• I have a grand prize and two smaller prizes. I want to find 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners from among all the patrons who complete my winter challenge.
  • Drawing Type: General Drawing
  • Challenge: Select your winter challenge from the dropdown
  • General Drawing Settings: Specific Earned Badge(s)
  • Select Badges: Select the completion badge in your winter challenge
  • Winner Type: Ordered Placement
  • Number of Winners: 3
    
• I want to set up a registration prize drawing that picks a winner from anyone who registered for my summer challenges.
  • Drawing Type: General Drawing
  • Challenge: Select all your summer challenges
  • General Drawing Settings: Specific Earned Badge(s)
  • Select Badges: Select the registration badge(s) for your summer challenges