Winner can pay off home with AI-assisted lottery win
By Kate Northrop
A Michigan woman obtained her lucky lottery numbers using ChatGPT and ended up winning a $100,000 Powerball prize.
Artificial intelligence manifested a real-life win when one Michigan woman won a $100,000 Powerball prize with lottery numbers she sourced from ChatGPT.
Tammy Carvey, 45, is an occasional lottery player who keeps an eye on multi-state jackpots to determine when it's worth buying a ticket to join in on the drawing.
"I only play Powerball when the jackpot gets up there, and the jackpot was over $1 billion, so I bought a ticket," the Wyandotte resident told the Michigan Lottery. "I asked ChatGPT for a set of Powerball numbers, and those are the numbers I played on my ticket."
She went online to the Michigan Lottery's website and purchased a Powerball ticket for the Sept. 6 drawing using the numbers suggested to her.
"When I checked the winning numbers, I saw I matched four white balls and the Powerball and knew I had to have won something," Carvey recalled.
The winning numbers in the Sept. 6 drawing, which offered a $1.8 billion jackpot that was won by one winner in Texas and one winner in Missouri, were 11, 23, 44, 61, and 62, with Powerball number 17.
"Google told me it was a $50,000 prize, so that's what I thought I'd won. It wasn't until I logged into my Michigan Lottery account that I realized I added the Power Play to my ticket and actually won $100,000! My husband and I were in total disbelief."
Carvey's husband accompanied her to Lottery headquarters in Lansing to claim her prize, which she'll use to pay off her home. She'll save whatever is left over.
"The results of all Lottery drawings are random and cannot be predicted by utilizing artificial intelligence or other number generating tools," the Lottery advised.
The next Powerball annuity jackpot estimate for the drawing on Wednesday, Oct. 29 currently stands at $376 million.
Powerball is currently offered for sale in 45 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2 each.
Powerball lottery results are published within minutes of the drawing at USA Mega (www.usamega.com). The USA Mega website provides lottery players in-depth information about the United States' two biggest multi-state lottery games, Mega Millions and Powerball.
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ChatGPT always tells me that it cannot generate lottery numbers.
Congrats on the win
Watch how many players now,
are going to ask AI to choose their numbers for them.
I really appreciate it, talk later.....
My prompt: “Pick 5 random numbers between 1 and 69.”
It gives me the numbers, and interestingly, it follows up with:
“Would you like me to include a separate Powerball number (between 1 and 26) too?
Congrats Tammy, somehow I see loads of Star War toys and collectibles coming your way.
Whoopty-doo! Somebody won money on a quick pick! Imagine that!
I asked ChatGPT for PB numbers and nothing
Try using Grok. Same prompt as you, but Grok kindly provides some numbers.
Chatgpt works fine for lottery numbers. Just repeat your request or add criteria to it like use the past 20 drawings.
Please give me Virginia pick 3 numbers for today. Use the criteria for selection of your own choosing
Virginia Pick 3 number set for today (October 29 , 2025), chosen using a balanced-pattern and frequency-blend method based on common draw behavior patterns:
🎯 Pick 3 suggestion: 4 – 7 – 2
Why this combination
If you’d like, I can also give:
Would you like me to generate those as well?
Tried ChatGPT for PB numbers and got nothing. Now gonna ask Gemini for PB numbers.
Maybe some of you are cursed but works fine for me.
that's pretty weird. was it part of a longer chat?
I don't even know how to use Chatgpt so I will pick numbers the old fashioned way,fortune cookie numbers, birthdays and sad but true checking account balance.
It is used just like Google and you type in a question or instruction but can also perform more complex actions as well.
But, the questions really need to be structured and specific or the answers can really be screwy.
One "trick" to do with the chatbot is always ask "Are you really, really, sure?"
It is amazing how many times I have done that and received different answers!
I know. I was only explaining it to someone who had not used it. I have used 6 or 7 tiered criteria. If it goes off track, you have to say no and I asked x and not y. It is like giving directions on how to get somewhere. If you have ever taken a Basic coding or math logic class, it is easy to do the more advanced things. One has to be detailed and avoid assumptions.
There is a high risk of using Chat GTP and it happened before when too many people won the lottery with Chinese fortune Cookies let say at the end wasn't Much lol😇🐬
"I know. I was only explaining it to someone who had not used it."
I bungled my reply. I was not correcting you as I believed you knew what you were doing.
My reply was intended only to supplement yours with the "trick" that has served me well.
I hope Sully gained from both of us.
Best wishes to you.
No worries. I hope more people start playing around with it.
All zeroes?????
Thanks! I will.
EDIT: Worked great. Here is result. Note interesting follow-up prompt at the bottom.
No, it was a cold prompt.
It's no worse than any other method of picking numbers.
Some things in life I would keep for myself, like telling I used ChatGPT for my winning numbers. Sure, many ppl use it esp for that same reason but once that's put out there that it works, you will see those systems change.
Who knows, what if the ML recently programmed their system to pull balls based off numbers picked by ChatGPT. I would've only told that to trusted people who could benefit from it.
* It's worked for me in the past.
I actually use Copilot and it adds a different element to picking numbers. I enjoy it. You can hit the mic and talk to it. You can add strategies to it to analyze and it will use it when ask it to you.
For anyone who wants to add some new flavor to the process, I recommend to give it a try. Especially for pick 3-4 games.