Sum Filter

Menu: Filters  Sum

One type of ticket assessment is the sum of ticket numbers, which is how the Sum filter works: it removes or leaves in the package all tickets whose sum is in your selected range of values.
You can enter the sum range using your keyboard or you can click the spin buttons in edit fields.

You can enter the same value both for the minimum and the maximum sum values. This way you can remove/leave only tickets with the selected sum value.

It is also possible to filter tickets that have odd or even sum value only. When option Allow is checked then all filtered tickets will have the sum of ticket numbers in the given range AND the sum value will be odd or even only.

Sum Root is an additional filter parameter. Its numerical value ranges from 1 to 9 and it is calculated as a consecutive sum of individual digit in the sum value. For example the sum value 158 = 1 + 5 + 8 = 14 and subsequently 14 = 1 + 4 = 5. Thus the sum root for sum 158 is number "5". Using Check Sum Root and checking appropriate boxes for individual sum roots you can filter tickets with uniform distribution of numbers while reducing the package contents significantly.

Example:
Let's consider ticket 1, 8, 12, 26, 31, 32 - sum for this ticket is 110 and sum root is "2". However also tickets 2, 7, 12, 26, 31, 32 or 3, 6,12, 26, 31, 32 have the same filter results because they have the same sum value (110). Note that all these tickets match each other in 4 numbers.

See also the Statistics page.

Note: The filter evaluates dummy numbers as well. Dummy numbers increment the ticket sum according to their value. You should be aware of this feature and eventually apply the filter again after replacing dummy numbers with regular numbers.

Note: When playing a powerball lottery (i.e. bonus number(s) is drawn from a separate pool of numbers than the main numbers, e.g. Expert Lotto Powerball) the powerball number is not included in ticket's sum.

Note: You can track how this filter performed in the lottery history on page Statistics Winning Numbers Winning Numbers Table. Furthermore, Winning Numbers Chart page allows you to set parameters for this filter by drag & drop of margins to required position (chart window must be displaying one set of data only - see Options button under the chart window).

When the package is not empty you can click Filter button under the chart to open this filter window and have the filter options preset with values corresponding to chart margins. You must move both margins to enable the Filter button. The actual values of margin positions are displayed at the status bar under the chart window.