[raffle] Tombola is a raffle which originates in Southern Italy and which is mostly played in Christmas time. Prizes are often only symbolic. With the Italian massive emigration of the 19th and 20th centuries, the game was exported abroad and it took different forms and names such as Bingo. In the UK, a tombola is a raffle in which the priz... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombola_(raffle)