What is "Filter"

Filter is a simple yes/no condition, which you can apply to tickets. A ticket can either pass or fail this condition depending on your settings of the filter. You can also choose whether you wish to remove from the package tickets passing filter's condition or tickets failing filter's condition. You typically use a series of different filters to cover all your lottery strategy needs.

Each filter window includes the Matching Tickets option where you can select to Remove from the package all tickets passing filter's condition or to Leave them in the package.

Ok button starts filtering tickets in the package according to your filter settings. You can see a progress bar during the filtering process. The filtering can be interrupted at any time using Cancel button below the progress bar. When the filtering is done you will get a message with the number of tickets removed from the package and the number of tickets left in the package.

Apply  button does the same as the Ok button however the filter window stays open when the filtering is finished. This way you can again apply the same filter using different filter parameters.

Cancel  button closes the filter window.

All filters also include Preview  button, which can be used to preview the filter results without actually removing any tickets from the package. You will get the number of tickets passing filter's condition (Passed) and the number of tickets failing filter's condition (Failed). The Total line shows the total number of tickets in the package.

Use button Back-test  to check, how the filter performed in lottery history.

Filters are enabled only when the package is not empty. An exception is file filters, which process tickets in a selected file instead of package tickets. File filters are therefore enabled even when the package is empty.

 

The Filters menu offers tools to implement your lottery strategy. Let's look at some simple examples:

Example [Expert Lotto 6/49]:

The examples above include simple filters only for better readability. Each lottery player chooses their own filters depending on the current state of the winning numbers database and implements their lottery strategy using these filters and their combinations. The filters can be combined and repeated at will. You can find detailed description of each filter in separate chapters of these help pages. When setting the filter parameters you can use additional tools the application offers, such as Statistics, Panel Coloring etc.

Majority of filters can apply also over any file of tickets regardless it is loaded into the package.

Note: Most filters run in two execution threads so if you have multi-core CPU then the filtering process should be 30 to 40% faster (Expert Lotto Pro only).