Anyway, here goes. Get a piece of paper and a pencil. Draw as many vertical lines as there are prizes or participants. Write down the prizes at the bottom of each line. Have each participant select a line and write their names at the top. If there are more participants than prizes, there will be some lines where no prizes appear at the bottom; if, for example, there are two prizes for each participant, everybody chooses two vertical lines.
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The more horizontal lines you have, the more twists and turns you get. Dad used to have a great time handing out small prizes at parties, but he complicated things even more by putting numbers at the top of the vertical lines, and instead of participants selecting a line, they had to draw a number from a porcelain urn or Mom's Navajo basket, and it was my job to go around letting everybody pick a number.
For more info, if you know someone who can read Japanese, knock yourselves out here. The explanation there is a little more complicated to ensure fairness (as in hiding the horizontal lines or the prizes at the bottom, and/or allowing participants to draw more horizontal lines) and a series of prettier pictures with explanations in Spanish (??). There's also a downlodable software to automate the process here, but we'll be doing this the old-fashioned way.
5 comments:
Megs,
What a very cool and lovely way to draw. Much more fun than just numbers out of a hat, for sure!
Congrats on getting your stuff together for Santa Fe. Maybe some of the grumpiness and drama came from the fact that your joy weaving turned into a 'have to' for a short time and with a major time constraint.
Breathe easy, that part's over -- and now do something that you really, really really *want* to do! :-)
Weave on!
Jane
Yeah, Jane. My next project is weaving a bunch of skinny cottons, so that should be fun. And even when I have problems with them, I like the cloth so much I seem to find extra patience somewhere.
Harry, Larry and Perry are popping up everywhere :)
Yeah, they just can't leave me alone!
sugoi!
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