Best UK competitions under £1,
ranked by value

Low price, long odds — the penny raffle trap

A 99p entry sounds like nothing until you notice the draw has 250,000 tickets. Buying a hundred of them costs £99 and still leaves you at roughly 1 in 2,500. The ticket price tells you what one entry costs; the Value Ratio tells you how much of that money is actually going into the prize, and the odds tell you what you are getting for it. Cheap entry is only good value when both of the other two hold up.

What to look for under £1

Prefer draws with a capped ticket allocation over open-ended ones, and open a listing to check its current odds — on a draw that is selling slowly, the live odds can be far shorter than the full-house figure. Anything with a Value Ratio near 1.0 is returning almost all the ticket revenue as prize value.

Compare across every price point in the Showroom, or work out your exact chance on a specific draw with the raffle odds calculator.