Lotto Time ====================================== Lotto-Ware 870 Gladiola Ave Victoria B.C. Canada V8Z 2T6 _ _ PREFACE This program is intended for people who like to play Lotto 6/49. (Applies for Lotto BC with appropriate changes). If this is you, you are probably looking for some relationship of drawn numbers. Is there any or not? Can we find a system which WORKS ? One thing is for sure. There are millions of dollars to be won by the people who crack Lotto's winning combination. Lotto officials state all winning numbers are drawn randomly. Is this the case? With this program you can see for yourself some numbers are picked much more frequently in a given time period then others. Utility program FREQUENCY will tell you how many times each number was drawn in a given time period. Subprogram PICK-UP SIX will pick up six numbers for you out of the category you select.(HOT, COLD, RANDOM numbers,etc.) If you forgot some reports a few weeks back, no problem you can turn the clock back and get them again. Do you want to see specific situations? Let's say .. 12 draws back? Use HISTORY MODE. Enclosed is our user friendly manual. We hope you enjoy this program and wish you success in the LOTTO. -------- - 2 - HOW TO GET STARTED The best manual is No manual. This program is menu driven and you can go ahead and try each report on Menu to see what it does. All you need is continuous paper loaded into the printer. Some reports are two or three pages long. Boot up computer with DOS disk. Enter Time and Date. For proper functioning we need Updated File of Lotto West winning numbers. Put the disk in the drive and type LOTTO649 Main menu will be on the screen. First letter of each line is high- lighted and you pick up for DISPLAY MAIN FILE. The best way is to get Hard copy of the file on your printer. Compare the list of winning numbers with official list from LOTTO 6/49. You can find it (B.C.) in magazine LUCK, published every week. Find the last entry and update the file pressing 'E' (Enter Winning Numbers). Program will ask you to enter numbers from each draw.Bonus number is of no concern to us! As soon as the file is up to date, view it again and make sure, that all numbers in each draw are listed in consecutive order. Any mistake can be corrected by entering program "CORRECT MAIN FILE" (press 'C') and let yourself quide through the procedure. GET REPEATING SETS You have to specify the number of last draws you want to work with. It must be a minimum of 10. Remember, there are two draws each week. If you enter 16, it means that you are working with winning numbers from last eight weeks ( = two month). If there are three numbers which repeated themselves at least twice program will find them and print them on report. The same thing with couples of numbers which came together at least twice in the same period of time. This action is realy time consuming and you might want to go and get a cup of coffee meantime. In this case enter "Y" (yes) for SIREN and you will be called back when the task is finished. Depending on the number of draws and on a speed of your computer, expect 5 minutes to 3 hours. ------ - 3 - FREQUENCY How many times did they draw number <36> in last three months? And what about number <49>? (3 month = 12 weeks = 12 draws) We know that certain number was "missed" in last several draws. But how many times? All these questions will be aswered by program FREQUENCY. And more! The list will be established and sorted to show which numbers are "The Best" (HOT) and which were not among winning numbers (missed) and how many times (COLD NUMBERS). List of HOT NUMBERS is dependent on number of draws and is different if we look at last 20 draws or at last 25 draws. This is important to remember! YOUR GOOD NUMBERS Everybody has them! Your birthday, marriage, lucky day, ... Was there any prize those days when you forgot to buy tickets? Enter six of them and let the computer tell you how the numbers fared since Lotto 6/49 started in 1982 ( Lotto BC since it started) and let us hope you did not miss the first prize! PICK-UP SIX And here comes the playing! Computer will pick up six numbers for up to 100 tickets. You can dirrect picking to certain groups of numbers. One of the choices is also six RANDOM numbers. This one is equivalent of QUICK-PICK. You can tell computer to pick, let say, six numbers out of the TOP 20 from LIST OF HOT NUMBERS based on last 12 draws. Or from the LIST OF COLD NUMBERS or any combination of the above. One number of those six could be from the last draw or you can choose from one up to three numbers from your own (they should be the ones you "know for sure" will be drawn the next time!) Buy the tickets or play just "on paper". The next draw will show you if it was a right choice. If you do not want to wait for the next coming draw then put yourself back,let say, ten draws using HISTORY MODE. All the numbers picked while in HISTORY MODE will be checked against 10 "future" draws which already occured and if there was a price it would be printed. There is endless choice of combinations and lots of room for your fantasy to pick the "best" system for numbers. And if it does not work this time it might start working two weeks from now. Remember, our goal is a strategy which would give us the best return on money invested. This way we stand better chance of collecting Jackpot or any other major price. ------ - 4 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCREEN PICK UP FROM 1) HOT NUMBERS 2) COLD NUMBERS 3) ONE FROM LAST DRAW 4) RANDOM NUMBERS 5) SELECT YOUR OWN NUMBERS TO PICK UP = 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember - whatever choice, it is still random pick. If number one is pressed we will be directing picking to the list of HOT numbers. It is a good idea to get a hard copy of the list from program FREQUENCY, at least when playing the first time. First question is: How many to be picked out of HOT NUMBERS: We have a choice to pick up just one,two,three...or all six numbers on our ticket(s) from a list of HOT NUMBERS. Each ticket has to have six numbers! That is basic LOTTO 6/49 rule. Let us pretend we pick two numbers (press ). It means we have 4 numbers left and screen is changing NUMBERS TO PICK UP = 4 List of HOT NUMBERS has 49 lines and we are asked: Use ?? from the list of HOT NUMBERS: (8-25) Now we are targeting certain group of numbers on the list. Enter 12 this time. Chunk of twelve numbers will be used as "a bag" for our random pick. It is obvious, that we have to mark the first number of those twelve on the list. Computer has to be able to extract them. This is a job of the next question: Enter starting position of the first number: (1-38) If we enter number one, then first number of our 12 will be the first number of the list of HOT NUMBERS. Only 12 top numbers will be used for random pick. If number 38 is entered then it becomes the first and number 49 is the last. It means that bottom 12 numbers of the list will be used for random pick. If any number between 1 and 38 is used, then 12 numbers will be extracted from the middle of the list. But list of HOT NUMBERS has not been established yet. It is changing with number of draws involved. We have to answer the last question: List of HOT NUMBERS will be made from ?? draws: Eight is minimum (to keep true random pick) and maximum is the total number of draws we have on file. List of COLD NUMBERS is always made from last 50 draws (for the purpose of random pick). ------- - 5 - TABLE OF POPULARITY Some numbers are becoming very "popular" certain times, some are "fading away". This popularity is based on number of draws you specify. Let say we picked last 20 draws. Now we are looking at first few lines of the report: -35 -30 -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 -*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------* 1/ 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 2/ 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3/ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Start reading at the LAST column. Number ONE was drawn in last 20 draws four times, number TWO was drawn twice and number THREE four times. How was the situation 5 weeks back (10 draws)? That time was number ONE drawn just once in last 20 draws, number TWO twice and number THREE three times. Report goes back to show the same situation up to 35 draws back. HISTORY MODE There might be times when you would like to know how the reports looked a few weeks back, or just one draw back. You can turn time back up to 25 weeks (50 draws) and evaluate those situations. You can use computer to pick up the numbers (program PICK UP SIX) and they will be matched with winning numbers of all the draws you "went back". Let's see an example. Go to HISTORY MODE and after pressing 'H' the computer is asking you how many draws do you want to go back. You pick up two. It means that the computer is not seeing last two draws and the display of THE LAST DRAW on MENU is changed accordingly. You can not ENTER WINNING NUMBERS or CORRECT MAIN FILE in HISTORY MODE. But you can get printouts from other choices. The only difference is that all the reports are 'two draws old'. You can also PICK UP SIX NUMBERS. And again, all the tables used for list of HOT NUMBERS or COLD NUMBERS are 'two draws old' but every ticket is compared with those 'two future draws' and all the 'winnings' are typed out telling you which ticket, which draw and how many numbers are matching winning numbers. History Mode is not working for Lotto BC till sufficient number of draws is execcuted. (approx. 70) ------- - 6 - On the disk are ALL winning numbers for Lotto 6/49 (since the first draw). WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH THE PROGRAM : - Check if there was ever any winning on combination of 6 numbers. - Find the BEST number in the last 10 or 100 or 300 draws. Or in any number ofúdraws you specify. For example: The BEST NUMBER (Lotto 6/49) is 7, drawn 54 times in 317 draws, compared with "the worst" number 15, drawn 26 times. Get sorted list of "HOT NUMBERS" for any number of draws. You can imagine, that the list is changing a bit with each new draw. But some numbers keep themselves amongst "HOT NUMBERS" if you get 300 draws or just last 20. Can you figure out which numbers they are? Try it! - Get sets of numbers which repeat themselves. What is the BEST SET OF THREE NUMBERS since Lotto 6/49 started? Do not try to do it manualy! It takes the computer 3 hours. In 317 draws there are three sets: 11,19,25 - 9,11,46 and 27,44,47. Each drawn 5 times. What is the BEST COUPLE of numbers? For Lotto 6/49 it is 27,44 drawn 13 times for the same time period. The SECOND BEST COUPLE are several sets drawn 11 times. What is the BEST COUPLE for last 50 draws? You can find out for yourself using the program. - The program does not enter new winning numbers for you. You HAVE TO DO IT after each draw to keep yourself "up-to-date". Or your 8 years old son can do it for you. It's easy, user friendly, menu driven. - How did the list of HOT numbers look 10,20 or 50 draws back? PUT yurself into HISTORY MODE and get reports printed. Compare them with current ones! - Pick out your numbers for the coming draw. Use equivalent of QUICK PICK or pick them out from the HOT LIST or COLD list. Tell computer: "I want to use first 20 numbers from the HOT list made from last 25 draws. Pick out 4 numbers from those and two numbers at random (you need six numbers for Lotto 6/49) from all 49 numbers. Use this system for 10 tickets!". It takes few seconds of computer time to make the list, sort it, pick out numbers from designated areas and print numbers for 10 tickets. There is an endless number of combinations you can choose. You can design your system and find out if it works, just "on paper" first. If you put yourself into HISTORY MODE, let's say back 5 draws, then all the numbers you picked will be checked against those 5 draws which program did not see when picking out numbers. If there was a prize it would be printed automatically. If some system works "on paper" then try it for real! ---- - 7 - - Registered copy of LOTTO 6/49 disk could be bought from LottoWare for $30. Shareware is a unique aproach to marketing and LottoWare encourages you to freely distribute unmodified copies of Lotto6/49 (and LottoBC.) - Benefits of registration: 1)..Receive Registered Copy of Loto649 disk, (last version) 2)..One year free membership in PC-Six49 Club ($12 value) as a member you will get: a)..free disk with the last version of Loto649 program on an Anniversary Date (1 year from registration) b)..PC-Six49 Club Newsletter with useful tips, suggestions, Six49 gossip, members response. 3)..Increase your LUCK by supporting the author of your program. - This disk contains a FreeWare copy of Lotto 6/49 program for 1987. Source code is written in Turbo Pascal by Al Klestil. GOOD LUCK and remember This program might change your life forever!