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I think a few unofficial raffles have been done this way, but never an official RPR one.

I think you might be thinking of the Spread the Love Raffle, though -- In that one, every post about us on social media counts as a ticket. At the end of the contest everyone's entries are put into a huge numbered list, and we have people roll dice to pick which of those names gets a prize.

Since you can only win once, often what happens is that people with a zillion entries win early, and then we end up having to do a million rerolls to pick a name that isn't one of the people who have already won to give later prizes to. So in that case a few times we've just let anyone roll as many times as they want, since people enjoy helping to pick the winners. But that drawing takes less than an hour to get through, unlike this multi-day marathon!

It wouldn't really be fair to allow an unlimited number of rolls in this contest, since the person who rolls the specific number becomes the winner. But an unlimited number of rolls doesn't really matter when the person doing the rolling isn't actually doing anything to benefit themselves by the amount of time they have to devote to rolling, because the pool of potential winners is already pre-decided.

This was probably too many words to answer your question. I'm just really into the contests around here.

I, again, have managed to derp.