Illinois - Lotto Combinations Generator (Full Wheel)

Lotto Full Wheel (Lotto Combinations Generator)

Otherwise known as a Lottery Wheel, this utility generates all the combinations of a selected set of Lotto numbers into groups of 6, with the option of fixing some selections. Fixed numbers are those numbers that the user wants to appear in all generated plays.

This Lotto wheel is divided into two parts - Preview and Generation, which function independently. The Preview part is intended for analyzing the scenarios and expected outcomes of the combinations of a set of numbers before they are generated.

The generation part lists the plays based on the user's selections. First, the user selects a set of Lotto numbers, and may optionally fix some of them, and then chooses either to view the scenarios or to generate the required combinations. If no numbers are fixed, the generated plays will be all the possible combinations of the selected numbers. If some numbers are fixed, then the plays will be generated by combining the fixed numbers with all the possible combinations of the rest of the selected numbers.

The purpose of fixing some numbers is to reduce the number of plays generated. This results in lower cost, but at the expense of reduces chance of winning. For instance, the combinations of 10 numbers will result in 210 plays of Lotto; but if 4 of the numbers are fixed, the number of plays becomes 15. This utility allows you to fix upto upto 5 numbers. To choose which numbers to fix, you may arbitrarily do so, or you may use the results of our 'Numbers Analysis' as well as our 'Pairs Analysis ' and ' Triads analysis'.

A Lotto jackpot is guaranteed if the fixed numbers are all winning numbers, plus if all the other winning numbers are among the selected numbers. If no numbers are fixed, then a jackpot is guaranteed as long as the winning numbers are all within the selected numbers. All other scenarios can be viewed by manipulating the 'what if..' situations in the Preview section as demonstrated below.

Usage Example for Lotto

The following explanations are best understood if you open the Lotto Full Wheel Generator window and execute the examples yourself.

Let us suppose that we want to play all Lotto numbers that are divisible by 5, that is, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 (a total of 10). To preview the scenarios, select 10 from the drop-down numbers on the Preview panel and press "Show Scenario". The total number of plays to be generated will be shown as 210 in the Scenario panel. Now, we can manipulate some 'what if' situations to see how the 210 tickets would fare. For example, if 5 of these numbers are winners, then select 0 as fixed, 5 as other selections, and then press the 'Show Results' button. You will see that 5 of our Lotto plays(tickets) will match 5-of-6, 50 will match 4-of-6 , and so on. If all of the winning numbers are divisible by 5, then it will be celebration time.

Now let us see the effect fixing 4 of our numbers. Go back to the Preview panel and select 10 as the numbers to play and 4 as the numbers to fix, and then press the button. In this case there will be only 15 plays to be generated all of which, as you'll see later, will contain the 4 fixed numbers. Here, the scenarios will involve how many of the fixed numbers and how many of the other selected numbers are winners. For example, if 3 of the fixed numbers and 2 of the other selected numbers are winners, then 1 of the 15 tickets will match 5-of-6, 8 will match 4-of-6, and so forth.

Generation of Lotto combinations

The generation part shouldn't pose any problem except how to select and fix the desired Lotto numbers. To select a number, just click on it. To fix a number, click on an already selected number. To unselect a number, click on an already fixed number. Thus, a cycle of clicks on a number will select, fix, and unselect it, respectively. After selecting the numbers, you can preview the scenarios by pressing the "Scenarios" button. To list the resulting Lotto combinations, click on the 'Generate' button.

At this point, you can select the 10 Lotto numbers of our example and see the outcome. Also, you may fix 4 numbers, say, 5, 15, and 30, and click "Generate". Observe that all the generated combinations will contain 5, 15 and 30.

Finally, remember that you can check the past performance of a Lotto combination with our Lotto Combinations Checker