Non standard game

Reply #12

cbreeze8 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:03:18 GMT

To Todd, JAP69, BobP and others,

Thanks for all of your input. I really appreciate that there are so many knowlegeable people on LP from which to get information. The main reason that I was waiting so patiently for Lotto Pro was because I need a wheeling system for Quinto. Since one won't be coming anytime soon, I'll try the 5 number wheels here and just ignore the '0' and see how that works.

Thanks again,

cbreeze8

Reply #11

JAP69 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:28:19 GMT

I was interested in using the quinto program for the cash 5 game tracking the last digit in the cash 5 number.

Reply #10

JAP69 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:13:42 GMT

I inquired at a software site if they were going to make a quinto program available.

They responded that it would not be available at this time being the game is only available in one state.

If other states follow with a quinto game they would reconsider their decision to write a program for the quinto game.

So my guess is you could also call the quinto game as being unique.

Of course Todd is on top of all this by having quinto data available here at Lottery Post.

Reply #9

RJOh — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:35:15 GMT

I can understand why Lotto Pro (John Lake) was reluctant to rewrite his program for one game. Lotto Pro is a general purpose lottery program that handles standard games (pick3,pick4,pick5/20-60,pick6/20-60 and possible a bonus number) which are played in most states under different names.

When Lot'O Play came out in Ohio which had a pool of 100 number, I rewrote my program to handle 100 numbers and redesigned the part that simulate the play slips of the games that I play and eliminated some... [ More ]

Reply #8

Stew12 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Gotcha

Reply #7

Todd — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:54:47 GMT

That would be what is referred to as a trade secret .

Reply #6

Stew12 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:53:09 GMT

Todd, even though this is slightly off topic, how is it that you are able to grab all the results from lotteries all over the world almost instantly? Have you been granted a read-only account to a (or a few) official databases? I was just always curious how the database logistics worked in this situation.

Reply #5

Todd — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:10:22 GMT

Oh, OK.

I understand their opinions, but I disagree with their terminology.

Although Quinto is different than other games, I reserve the term non-standard to mean lotto games that use something other than numbers for at least part of the results. (At Lottery Post I use the term Non-Traditional , although Non-Standard is close enough.)

For example, the multi-state game Wild Card 2 is considered Non-Traditional because the drawing results consist of 5 numbers plus a playing card. (Like Ja... [ More ]

Reply #4

Stack47 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:30:47 GMT

It's a nonstandard game now because PA is the only state with that type of game and they haven't written a program for it. You may have to use the old fashioned pencil and paper method until they do. I use another program and they won't be adding Quinto near future either.

My guess it that Todd is already figuring out how to include the deflate and inspect features for Quinto and somebody made a Vtrac chart too.

Reply #3

BobP — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:26:51 GMT

It means he (John Lake) would have to go to a lot of work for little return to reprogram much of Lotto Pro for one minor game. Non-standard usually means games with weird things like playing cards in the draw like the Washington State lottery used to have if memory is correct.

Quinto is a different game matrix from other games, so it isn't just a matter of adding another data base.

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/180375

BobP

Reply #2

cbreeze8 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:04 GMT

Hello Todd,

I subscribe to Lotto Pro and I noticed that they had not created a database for the Quinto games. When I asked why they hadn't, their reply was: Quinto is a nonstandard game and would not be added . So my question is why is: Is it nonstandard because you pick 5 numbers instead of 4 like the Big 4??

Thanks for answering.

cbreeze8

Reply #1

Todd — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:46:10 GMT

Can you give an example

Non standard game

cbreeze8 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:33:14 GMT

HELP!!!

What is meant by a 'non-standard' game?

cbreeze8