The Quicker, Slicker Lottery Picker

LotteryPicker is my foray into the wonderful world of gambling. It is just a random number generator for various lotteries I play.

Weasely Disclaimer

This software includes no warranty, expressed nor implied. I make no guarantees that numbers generated by this software will win, or that they even are valid for any lottery.

System Requirements

Windows 95, NT4, or later. Runs fine on a 486.

Instructions

  1. Download and extract from zip file
  2. Run LotteryPicker.exe
  3. Choose a lottery from the drop down.
  4. If your lottery isn't listed, enter the number of draws and the draw size, then press Regenerate
  5. You can enter a number of tickets (up to about 2000 in Windows 95) to generate at once
  6. Click "Copy" to copy the displayed numbers to the clipboard (for pasting into Excel or a text editor) for analysis or printing

Enabling Technology

  • STL - C++ Standard Template Library
  • Numerical Recipes in C - Most of the random number generators are from their Chapter 7.1.
  • Win32/MFC - It's another Visual C++ project.

Lottery Links

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Download
(72 KB Zip)


Peter MacMurchy