Win
Coverage
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Win Coverage
Using
this feature you can find the minimum win guarantee for tickets in the
package when you hit a given count of numbers. The feature is also available
from the window of the Minimizer
filter.
Controls
Description
- The
top-most part of the window shows the count of unique numbers found in
the tickets in the package.
- The
second line of the window allows setting the number of hits which the
coverage will be calculated for.
- Show - updates the coverage table
for the given count of hits. This operation may take a while if the package
contains a lot of unique numbers.
- Coverage Table - shows the probability
of winning of the given "Match X" prizes. Clicking
any column's header sorts the table in ascending or descending order.
See below for table description and interpretation.
- Print - prints table contents.
- Export - saves table contents to a text
file (in CSV format) that you can import into any spreadsheet processor.
- Close - closes this window.
Example [Expert Lotto 6/49]:
The
following figure show Coverage Table for 100 random tickets generated
from numbers 1 to 15 for the assumption that we will hit any three numbers
from the wheel (i.e. three numbers from the range 1 to 15).

The
Coverage Table should be interpreted as follows:
- The
first table row shows that the probability the wheel will not win anything
is 0.879%. That means the wheel does not cover four triplets out of 455
triplets from 15 numbers.
- In
the second table row we can see that we can win exactly one Match
3 prize with the probability of 6.374%. This situation will happen
if the winning numbers will contain one of 29 triplets out of 455 possible
triplets.
- The
third table row shows we can get two Match 3 prizes with the
probability of 14.286%. It's also clear that we can have two Match
3 prizes OR one Match 3 prizes OR no win
with the probability of 21.538%.
- We
can also see that the probability of three Match 3 prizes is
16.044% and that the probability of three Match 3 prizes OR
two Match 3 prizes OR one Match 3 prize OR
no prize is 37.582%.
- The
last table row shows that if the winning numbers will contain one of three
triplets out of 455 possible triplets we will achieve 12 Match 3
prizes and it will happen with the probability of 0.659%.
The
following table shows the coverage of the same wheel of 100 random tickets
for the assumption that we will manage to hit six numbers from the wheel.

- From
the first table row we can see that when hitting six of the wheel numbers
the minimum win guarantee is at least three Match 4 prizes AND
31 to 44 Match 3 prizes and that it will happen with the probability
of 0.12% (six particular combinations out of 5005 possible combinations
will be drawn).
- The
ninth row from the bottom of the table shows that with the probability
of 34.885% we can win one Match 5 prize AND 2 to 21
Match 4 prizes AND 20 to 51 Match 3 prizes.
At the same time, with the probability of 69.251% we can win all prizes
from this row OR prizes from the rows above.
- From
the last table row we can see that we will have two Jackpots
with the probability of 0.02%. That means that the wheel contains two
equal tickets (tickets with exactly the same numbers).