Lotto Manager International 2 V2.0 28.Oct.2012

This program requires DirectX 10 or higher.
Windows XP/VISTA/7 (x86 & x64).



1-INTRODUCTION

This program was developed to generate draws for the official Lotto contests on TV.

It is called "International" because it is possible to adapt the settings for different countries.

There are already myriads of programs of this kind but this one is Freeware (freely distributable) and I consider it one of the best (if not the best) of them all.

With this program you can use lots of statistic techniques and it is even possible to have a text file with draws from official Lotto contests and automatically adjust the settings accordingly.

There are still some improvements to be done which are left for future releases.



2-COPYRIGHT

This program is Freeware. It is copyrighted to Marco A.G.Pinto and Robert Bergström and it may be freely copied provided that nothing is changed.

You may not disassemble nor decompile it either.

If you put it together with commercial products please send us a copy of the product.

If you put it in cover CDs/DVDs of magazines please send us a copy of the magazine with the CD/DVD.

If you ever win the Lotto or enjoy using this program, please consider showing your support by offering us whatever amount you feel like:
PAYPAL: marcoagpinto@mail.telepac.pt


3-DISCLAIMER

Because the program is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the program "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who may modify and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.



4-CONTACTS

If you want to contact us write to:

MARCO A.G.PINTO:

    S.Mail:
        Marco A.G.Pinto
        Apartado 3083
        2746-501 Queluz
        (Portugal)

    E.Mail:
        marcoagpinto@mail.telepac.pt


ROBERT BERGSTRÖM:

    S.Mail:
        N/A

    E.Mail:
        robert@SpecNG.org



5-HOW IT WORKS

Here is a brief explanation of how the program works. No need for deep philosophical text since the GUI is very intuitive.

TAB1 – "Main"
In this tab you can generate the draws.

There are the following buttons with special instructions:

CLEAR	Will get rid of the draws generated.
PRINT	Sends the draws generated (including the numbers hit after a SEARCH) to a .TXT file which you can open with WordPad and print or use it for better scrolling through all the draws.
LOAD	Loads previous draws from a .LMS file.
SAVE	Saves the current draws to a .LMS file.
GENERATE	Will generate draws based on the preferences and techniques settings.
SEARCH	Will allow you to check how many numbers you have hit in the draws. Use the structure:    number1 number2 number3 number4 number5 number6 +supplemental    Ex: 2 8 12 20 24 34 +45
EXIT	Will exit the program.

TAB2 – "Preferences"
You can select the numbers to play or not play with and also fixed numbers. You can select the number of draws and numbers per draw. You can also select the price of playing with the numbers and the currency.

The checkbox to increase the random generating numbers moves generated numbers up, down, keep it or generate a new draw in order to make it more random, but it is slower.

The preferences are saved to lottoman2_V20.prefs .


TAB3 – "Techniques"
This tab isn’t fully working yet because it requires a lot more efforts. After it is fully working it will have more techniques.

It is possible to draw numbers based on a database of numbers which already came out in older TV contests. The best is to use the "Learn" button which will automatically read a text file with old draws and adjust the techniques.

Please notice that the techniques will only work if you want to generate draws with the numbers allowed in your country Lotto. For example: 6 numbers in Germany and 5 in Portugal.

The preferences of the techniques are saved to lottoman2_V20.prefs2 .

PAGE 1
a) Numbers per decade
    Maximum and Minimum numbers per decade
        0x = numbers between 1 and 9
        1x = numbers between 10 and 19
        2x = numbers between 20 and 29
        3x = numbers between 30 and 39
        4x = numbers between 40 and 49

b) Decades used
    Maximum and Minimum
    There are 5 decades.
    This setting allows you to set the Maximum and Minimum number of decades used.

c) Even/Odd numbers
    Maximum and Minimum
    It allows you to set the Maximum and Minimum number of even and odd numbers.
    Even numbers are the ones which end with 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
    Odd numbers are the ones which end with 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

d) Maximum sequence of numbers
    It allows you to select the maximum numbers joined together in a row.
    For example:
                      10, 11 are 2
                      20, 21, 22 are 3

e) Sum of numbers
    Maximum and Minimum
    Maximum is the Maximum sum of numbers.
    Minimum is the Minimum sum of numbers.
    Example:
                1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 -> Sum=22 (Maximum)
                1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -> Sum=21 (Minimum)

f) Maximum distance between numbers
   For example:
                    14, 15 = 1
                       2, 4 = 2

g) Tallest number being the first
    For example:
    10, 13, 19, 25, 29, 45 -> tallest first=10
    20, 25, 30, 37, 40, 45 -> tallest first=20

h) Numbers per rows
    Maximum and Minimum
    There are 7 rows
    For example:
        row 1 are the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

   

i) Numbers per columns
   Maximum and Minimum
   There are 7 columns
   For example:
       column 1 are the numbers 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, 43
  
  

PAGE 2
a) Dia1. Low/High
    Maximum and Minimum

    Diagonal 1 (Low):
   

    Diagonal 1 (High)
   

b) Dia2. Low/High
    Maximum and Minimum

    Diagonal 2 (Low):
   

    Diagonal 2 (High):
   

c) Rings
    Maximum and Minimum

    Ring 1:
   
   
    Ring 2:
   

    Ring 3:
   

d) Terminations
    Maximum and Minimum

    It is the number in which each ball ends.
    Example:
        0: 10, 20, 30, 40
        1: 1, 11, 21, 31, 41
        2: 2, 12, 22, 32, 42
        3: 3, 13, 23, 33, 43
        4: 4, 14, 24, 34, 44
        5: 5, 15, 25, 35, 45
        6: 6, 16, 26, 36, 46
        7: 7, 17, 27, 37, 47
        8: 8, 18, 28, 38, 48
        9: 9, 19, 29, 39, 49

PAGE 3
a) Half Low/High
    Maximum and Minimum
   
    Half Low:
   

    Half High:
   

b) Low/High
    Maximum and Minimum
    Numbers between   1-25=low
    Numbers between 26-49=high

c) Prime Numbers Max
    Sets the maximum number of prime numbers in draws.
    Prime numbers are integer numbers which can only be divided by themselves:
    2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47

STATISTICS
    Shows a graphical representation of the number of times each number has come out in official TV contests
    based on the draws in a text file.

   



6-SOME TIPS

Please notice that although there is a "Learn" button in the "Techniques" TAB, some settings may be changed manually in order to improve the accuracy of the draws generation.

A good example of manual settings is changing the maximum sequence of numbers from 3 or 4 to just 2. It is true that in a draw or two there were 3 numbers in sequence, but that happens rarely which means it can be removed from the settings... this is just a tip and it can also be used with other techniques.

To search in the Portuguese Lotto in which the lucky number doesn't come in the draws of the program, one should write something like: 1 2 3 4 5 +0 (the supplemental number should be 0)

Type of accepted files:
  - The .SAV files are now .LMS (Lotto Manager Save)
  - The .DBA files are now .LMD (Lotto Manager Database)



7-HISTORY

V2.0 - 28.Oct.2012
o Updated DarkBASIC Professional to V7.7 RC7:
   a) It now works with DirectX 10+
   b) Windows XP/Vista/7 (x86 & x64)
o Almost everything has been changed/improved/fixed in the source code and manuals.