Reverse Drawing

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The Knights of Columbus at our church will be holding their big annual fundraiser soon. Every year they run a reverse drawing and dinner event. Only a certain number of tickets are sold. Tickets are $50 each and that includes the cost of two fried or barbecued chicken dinner plates. First prize is $3,000 cash. The neat thing about a reverse drawing is that the last ticket drawn is the winner instead of the first. To make things more interesting, the last 5 ticket holders get to vote on whether to split the prize or keep going. The vote to split the prize has to be unanimous. I've only once seen a person with one of the last 5 tickets vote against splitting the money. Karma caught him. His ticket was the next one drawn and the remaining 4 voted to split. Each of them got an extra $150 out of it because of the 5th person's greed. There are also door prizes and a sidebar drawing going on in conjunction with the main drawing. Sidebar tickets are $5 each and numbered the same as the big money tickets. The last of these drawn is also the winner and the last 5 get to decide whether to go on or split the prize of $500. Additionally, as numbers are drawn, there are consolation prizes every so many numbers to take some of the sting out of being eliminated from the game. The dinner and drawing are always a lot of fun and are a good chance to see friends you don't often get to see outside church or school. Does your church or civic club sponsor events like this?