In this chapter you will find brief instructions how to use Expert Lotto for some of the most common tasks.
You
can generate new tickets using Ticket Generator from menu Package Generator or clicking
in application's toolbar.
When you wish to create a full set of tickets covering all possible number
combinations, select Ticket numbers range (e.g. all combinations
of numbers from 1 to 15) and select option Generate maximum possible
number of tickets. Then click Ok button.
To generate tickets with random numbers switch the Generate maximum
possible number of tickets option off and select Generate tickets
with random numbers instead. Enter the number of Tickets to generate
and then click Ok button.
The generated tickets are stored in the package. Package
page displays them as a table; Visual
Package page displays the generated tickets in a visual form, which
allows evaluating the distribution of ticket numbers. More on the Ticket
Generator here.
You
can edit existing tickets in the package using controls in Package
page - add a new ticket, remove selected ticket, change numbers in selected
ticket etc.
Or you can use filters to reduce
the number of tickets in the package. For example you can remove all tickets
that do not have the ratio of odd and even number equal to 3:3, which
is statistically the most common combination. These functions are available
from menu Filters.
There are other functions for processing of tickets in the package in menu
Package. E.g. you can swap any ticket
number(s) for your "hot numbers".
Tickets
in the package can be saved to a file that you can reuse later on e.g.
to check your winnings or to print them on playslips. Click button in application's toolbar or choose Save
to file in menu Package to bring
up a standard window for file name browsing.
To insert into the package a previously stored file, click button or choose File
in menu Package. Again a standard
window for file name browsing appears.
You can also drag and drop any ticket file into application's main window
to bring up the Insert File window, which will have the dropped
file pre-selected. Dropping the file while holding down the CTRL key inserts
the file directly into the package.
You
can print tickets in the package directly to lottery's official playslips
using menu Print Playslip. When printing to playslips
for the first time you should adjust the print margin corrections depending
on the type of your printer.
Note: This feature is disabled when playing a lottery, which does not
use paper playslips for bet submission (bets are submitted online or by
telephone only), or when playing one of Expert Lotto demo lotteries that
are not actually operated (Expert Lotto 6/49, Expert Lotto Keno
and Expert Lotto Powerball).
To
find your winnings you can use e.g. page Package
Winnings. First update the winning numbers database (see below), in
Winning Numbers Selection panel choose Latest 1 and eventually
also choose the draw you wish to test. Load the file you wish to check
(for example your latest bet) then click Test button. The table
will display a list of tickets in the package and their winnings.
Another way is menu Win Test Package. Enter
the latest winning numbers into the edit fields and click button Test.
The table will display the score of winning prizes.
To
add the latest winning number manually choose menu Winning Numbers Add.
Select the draw date you wish to update from the list, enter drawn numbers
into edit fields and click button Add.
For some lotteries you can use plugins for automatic online winning numbers
update. If the lottery operator publishes the complete history of winning
numbers at their web site then Expert Lotto plugin can download the latest
winning numbers data from internet and update application's winning numbers
database automatically.
Note: These plugins do not have to be included in the standard installation
package. In such a case you have to download the plugin separately from
www.expertlotto.com and install it yourself (see below).
Application
page Statistics offers various tables
and charts calculated from winning numbers database where you can find
the most and the least frequently drawn numbers, the count occurrences
of any pair of numbers etc.
The same statistics can be calculated for tickets in the package.
To
upgrade to a new application version you only have to download the latest
installation package from www.expertlotto.com and install Expert Lotto
again to the same directory that already contains the old Expert Lotto
version.
Some additional functionality is available in plugins that are installed
separately. You can download new plugins from www.expertlotto.com for
free. To install a new plugin or a new version of an existing plugin you
must copy the downloaded file (.plugin extension) to the plugins
folder in application's installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\ExpertLotto\plugins).
After restarting the application you will show a message with names and
version numbers of newly installed plugins.
The same applies to additional lotteries that you can also download for
free from www.expertlotto.com. Copy the downloaded file (.pack
extension) to the data folder in application's installation directory
(e.g. C:\Program Files\ExpertLotto\data). After restarting the
application you will get a message with a list of the new lotteries.
Some
of the advanced application features is for example dummy
numbers function, which allows working with tickets consisting of
only three, four or five numbers instead of the regular six. You can then
fill the remaining ticket number positions with your hot numbers.
You can also use Panel Coloring
function that presents the frequency of number occurrences from selected
winning numbers database range as a scale of different colors.
Another example is page Winning Numbers
History. Using its functions you can find a small set of tickets,
which is guaranteed to include the jackpot winning ticket. You only have
to correctly estimate the trend of several chart lines presented in the
page (i.e. the chart line will fall/rise in the next draw).
If
your favorite lottery is not in our list at www.epxertlotto.com, you can
create it yourself using Lottery Wizard (menu Lottery Manager
New Lottery). You
only have to answer a few wizard's simple questions (e.g. how many numbers
are drawn, what is the range of drawn numbers etc) and the lottery is
ready to play in a few moments, including playslip printing.