Are there currently any open source lottery softwares?

Reply #19

CajunWin4 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:04:29 GMT

i've had more luck using pen and paper then any software .

Reply #18

lakerben — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:33:11 GMT

I've downloaded several programs from LP and from other sites. But, when I tried the programs from this vendor I got nothing but the messages I showed . Oh well.

Reply #17

RJOh — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:47:56 GMT

I downloaded Smart MegaLotto V1.0.8 and Smart Number QuickPick V1.0.6 and both worked fine within the limits of their designs. Both are just RNG that generate combinations within the parameters set by the user, they do what the LP RNG does but not as well. They don't compare their picks with previous drawings nor have any way to do such thing.

Reply #16

lakerben — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:58:28 GMT

I just downloaded all three. When I tried to run them it kept giving me an screen to repair or unistall the program. I just deleated them all.

Reply #15

lottoburg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:56:53 GMT

Hi, LottoAficionado: Thanks for your sincere instructions!

Best regards,

lb

Reply #14

lottoAficionado — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:44:40 GMT

Yes!!! There is full version professional lotto software absolutely FREE, Smart MegaLotto from RSTech.us Not only you can download the full version for free, but they upgrade the software from-time-to-time (version 1.0.8 is my last upgrade), and you also get free software technical support via email. Basically, it was designed only for the Mega Million type lotteries, and can be used with Florida s mega money too. However, the have other lotto software for the pick3, pick4, and all other lotto g... [ More ]

Reply #13

garyo1954 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:19:36 GMT

Agreed RJOh, always best to get something you are comfortabl with and that you enjoy working with. Makwes life a lot easier and you have more fun doing the grunge stuff......lol.

Reply #12

RJOh — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:25:50 GMT

Every option has its pro and con but a least these two are free for the lottery players who wish to code his ideas in to a computer program which may allow him to work with a more complex system between draws which doing by hand doesn't.

Reply #11

garyo1954 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:37:53 GMT

RJOh,

Looked at Just Basic for awhile. I like that it has a free form GUI. Didn't figure out how to set the displayed values. Loaded one of the programs I shared here. Wouldn't run. The debugger works line by line. It doesn't process the the whole program at once. Find an error....correct....find....correct.....and go to the next....

It would take some getting used too.

Looked at Small Basic too. It's cute. It's colorful. Simple. Ran same program. Wasn't happy I had to copy and paste th... [ More ]

Reply #10

RJOh — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:01:10 GMT

Just Basic is a short version of Liberty Basic produced by the same company that sells Liberty Basic. They claim any program written using it will run in Liberty Basic and all the routines you learn using it can be used with Liberty Basic. Since it was free and included a tutorial I thought I would try learning it before ordering a copy of Liberty Basic. I've look at several Basic languages and other high level languages and while I understand their commands, I can't program using them. Microsof... [ More ]

Reply #9

garyo1954 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:55:06 GMT

RJOh,

Not familiar with Just Basic.

The guy who wrote the Little Devil program used Liberty Basic. I tried copying and pasting that to QB64. Holy-Moley! It was like a new error every line. I gave up.

I thought all Basics were the same, but that one spit out errors from line 1. Nothing against Liberty Basic. Or Just Basic. And you know I started with a Tandy and GW-Basic. So we're on the same wavelength. I'm so ancient I still have programs with LINE NUMBERS laying around. LMAO

I do... [ More ]

Reply #8

RJOh — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:54:33 GMT

I can pretty much write a program to do anything using GWBasic and do since I'm still using WindowsXP but I downloaded a free copy of Just Basic which runs in newer versions of Windows and while I understand all its commands, I still can't write a program using it. One of the days I'll just have spend the time programming using it until I can.

Reply #7

BobP — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:08:30 GMT

For the UK 6/49 it had a unique routine where it put 48 of 49 numbers onto a 6x8 grid with some user choices as to odd/even, etc. I could do the same in CoverMaster taking the previous made groups into account building the next instead of each standing alone so I never did much beyond approve it for a link back. The other charts were just the same old and not much of it. The World version randomizes the 6x48 style grid for all games without the user settings, just a cheap wave of the hand toward... [ More ]

Reply #6

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:47:20 GMT

BobP

I still have VB3 and VB4 on a old machine, do you know if this program was any good

before I take the time to look it over. I could maybe update/add US game support.

RL

Reply #5

BobP — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:23:31 GMT

Source code for Lottery Cracker 1-5 from the author at . . .

http://www.rawcomputing.co.uk/crackersource.html

IMHO you would need to know how to win lotto to program software to automate your steps.

BobP

Reply #4

garyo1954 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:39 GMT

Pretty hard to learn to learn the basics of programming without doing some programming. Catch-22, yeah

Reply #3

RJOh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:57:47 GMT

I have learned the basics of programing on a number of different languages

If you've already done that then all you need to know is how to create a random access file with the dates and combinations of previous drawings and you'll be ready to start coding. Good luck.

Reply #2

savagegoose — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:11:55 GMT

sourceforge is open source place for projects that have many people contribute.

i aint upto programmeing, but i m happy to go and grab some software from time totime

http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/?q=lottery

Reply #1

lottoarchitect — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:00 GMT

Not sure if you ever find one as open source. My advice is really to start developing your own structures. Reading someone else's code will be quite error-prone to decipher and might not be the best starting guide for your particular needs. Try to separate the entities involved and define the structures needed first. At the bare minimum, you should end with a class that serves as keeping track of the lottery draws which can be queried to give draw #x. Then another class (your method of tracking... [ More ]

Are there currently any open source lottery softwares?

BlueDragon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:18:00 GMT

I have my own way of tracking lottery numbers, but I want to write my own program that reflects my method. I have learned the basics of programing on a number of different languages, but I am having trouble using my beginners knowledge to start coding a working lottery software. Does anyone know of any open source lottery softwares that analyze lottery statistics over just wheeling that I can study and maybe learn backwards by looking at the source code. Also I prefer not to use Excel or spread