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Generates tickets with random numbers or tickets for all combinations of a given range of drawn numbers.
Using the generator you can fill the package with either tickets composed of random numbers or tickets representing all possible combinations for a given range of numbers. Then you can use filters to reduce these tickets according to your lottery strategy.
Example [Expert Lotto 6/49]: Create 1000 random tickets with maximum allowed match in 3 numbers. The upper number range is set to 24. Some numbers are swapped for other numbers. Generated ticket will overwrite the current package contents. The settings in Generator window will look as follows:
The label to the right of the Tickets to generate shows the generated ticket will require 6.8kB of free disk space. The range of numbers was set to 1 to 24 in the Ticket numbers range field. These numbers are shown in red on the panel and are active. Other numbers are shown in gray and are inactive. In the example above we chose the following number swap: 1 for 28, 3 for 36, 5 for 42 etc. The maximum allowed match was set to 3 numbers. That means that no generated ticket will match other tickets in more than 3 numbers.
The generator will create the first 85-90% of the ticket very quickly then it will slow down because it must respect the Maximum allowed match settings. The speed of ticket generator depends on:
You can see a progress bar when tickets are being generated. The operation ends when all tickets have been generated or you can also cancel it yourself using the Cancel button. When generating random tickets the progress bar may stop in the middle because the generator is trying to lookup a ticket, which does not match previously generated tickets in more numbers than the allowed maximum. In this case you should cancel the operation, the package will contain only tickets generated so far.
After the operation is finished you will get an announcement how many tickets were inserted into the package.
The number of generated tickets is limited only by the size of available memory and by available free disk space of your PC. For example when playing lotteries where 10 numbers are drawn from a pool of 80 numbers, tickets for all possible combinations would require 16TB of free disk space. This is far beyond the capacity of most today's home computers.
When the random tickets options is switched off the generator creates tickets composed of successive numbers covering all possible number combinations. For example when generating 1000 ticket from a range of 24 numbers the generated tickets will cover the first 1000 possible combinations. If you choose the Generate tickets with random numbers and enter the number of maximum possible combinations into the Tickets to generate field the generator will create tickets composed of successive numbers covering all combinations instead of generating random tickets.
You can reduce the count of generated tickets by checking appropriate ticket position(s) in the Dummy numbers list.
Dummy numbers
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Number range
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Max. count of pentads |
Max. count of quads |
Max. count of triplets |
Max. count of pairs |
1 | 24 | 42504 | |||
2 | 24 | 10626 | |||
3 | 24 | 2024 | |||
4 | 24 | 276 |
You can use tickets covering all combinations of two, three and four numbers to validate the coverage of your bet, such an example is here.
The generator window is slightly different when playing powerball lotteries (i.e. lotteries where bonus number(s) is drawn from a different pool than the main ticket numbers). The panel contains main ticket numbers as well as powerball numbers. Generated random tickets will also have a random bonus number(s). You can set the range of main ticket numbers and the range of powerball numbers. When generating tickets from successive numbers each main numbers combination will be repeated for each powerball number. You can set the upper range of powerball numbers to "1" to get only one combination of main ticket numbers. The rest of the ticket generator functions work the same way as described above.