SMARTPHONE UK National Lottery Number Picker

[Guest levanter]

Hi.

I recently bought an E200 and thought I would have a go at a National Lottery Number Picking Application as I am getting no where with Lucky Dips.

Download the attached, copy it onto SP and click on it to install, or use Active Sync.

Once installed the Lottery Picker will be visible in your program menu. If you win, you can also remove the program using the REMOVE PROGRAM option.

Good Luck.

:D

Lottery Picker_SMP.CAB

[Guest maxh2003]

Top quality idea for a little app! :-D

Fancy adding a 'skew to high numbers' option?

many players choose numbers based on family birth dates, and so the numbers 1 to 31 are be selected more often. To help avoid their choices, bias your random choice towards the higher numbers.

Of course, 13 is a great national lottery number, because no-one ever chooses it...

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Nice app, shifted this to Software.

[Guest levanter]

Top quality idea for a little app! :-D

Thanks :D

Fancy adding a 'skew to high numbers' option?

Interesting...i didnt know this. It is possible but then it wouldnt be random, might reduce you chances of winning, but if you did win, increase the chance of not sharing it with half of the country. 8)

Thanks for the feedback, comments/enhancements are welcome.

[Guest maxh2003]

it wouldnt be random, might reduce you chances of winning, but if you did win, increase the chance of not sharing it with half of the country

Of course, the chance of winning is always the same no matter what numbers you pick (assuming that the draw is genuinely random, all the balls are exactly the same weight, and so on, which is *broadly* true). But as you rightly say, if you *did* win, you could expect to win more money - this is why it's a bad idea to pick 1-2-3-4-5-6 - it used to be the case that 10,000 people a week picked that combination, so if you won the jackpot you'd win (say) £3,000,000 / 10,000 = £300!

Not really what most people have in mind when they dream of winning the lottery... :D

If thousands (millions?) of people started using the choose-high-numbers system, then it would cease to work. Probably best not to port it to Symbian, then...! :twisted: :oops: :D