Visual Package Page

This page displays the package contents in a visual form and allows removing from the package or leaving in the package tickets that match a given set of selected numbers.

The table displays tickets in the package as a matrix. Each matrix row corresponds to one ticket in the package; each column corresponds to one drawn number. Numbers in position 10, 20, 30 etc. are highlighted using red color for better orientation. Matrix cells containing ticket numbers are filled with black color. Hovering the mouse cursor above any matrix point shows a tooltip with the number that the matrix point represents.

You can highlight any table column(s) by clicking the mouse in table's header. This highlighting is displayed as yellow background in table columns. You can also highlight any column by clicking the appropriate number box in ticket panel on the right. To remove the highlight click column header or panel's number box again.

Note: You can change the layout of numbers in the matrix so that the odd numbers are displayed in the first half of the matrix and the even numbers are displayed in the second half.

Click the drop down button in the upper left corner of the table to display a menu where you can chose either Regular or Odd - Even number layout. This feature supports visual perception of odd/even numbers in tickets. Background of the half displaying odd numbers is highlighted in gray.

The last column of this table gives the count of ticket numbers, which belong to the highlighted columns. When the ticket does not contain any highlighted number the last column remains blank.

The last field in the column header shows the count of highlighted columns. When no column is highlighted this field is blank. Double-clicking this field cancels highlight for all columns.

To highlight columns you can also use numbers of any ticket in the package. Double-clicking the ticket while holding down the CTRL key cancels existing highlighting and the columns corresponding to ticket numbers are highlighted. Double-clicking any ticket while holding down the SHIFT key preserves existing highlighting and additional columns corresponding to ticket numbers are highlighted.

Button Remove Match in removes from the package tickets matching the highlight in a given count of numbers as indicated by the checkboxes next to this button. Function Remove Match in function accepts any combination of these checkboxes. When finished the application provides a message informing how many tickets were removed from the package and how many tickets remain in the package. This button is enabled only when at least one of the checkboxes is ticked.

The tickets in the table can be tagged by clicking the first column in the table.

Button Print prints the package contents in the visual form including the table header.

When tickets with dummy numbers are inserted into the package, the table shows only regular lottery numbers, dummy numbers are shown only in the panel on the right of the table.

When playing a powerball lottery (e.g. Expert Lotto Powerball) where you bet a bonus number(s) drawn from a separate pool, the table shows the bonus numbers as green boxes. If the bonus number matches a main ticket number then the green box has a black border.

Example:

If the chosen 18 numbers will contain all 6 drawn winning numbers then we managed to reduce the cost of our bet significantly. The given example is very simple just to demonstrate the function usage. However in practice you probably will apply more sophisticated approach to this function.

Note: Visual Package page functions are often used for fast selection of match in 4, 5 or 6 numbers with given selection when working with large numbers of tickets.

Note: The ticket panel offers also bonus number boxes when playing a powerball lottery.