Written on August 3, 2002; Greatly updated September 22, 2006.
• FillWheel.EXE - August 2002 - Freeware.
• LottoWheeler.EXE - September 2006 - The best lottery wheeling software or lotto wheeler.
I can see how big lottery wheeling is with many people! After I wrote the previous post (The myth of lotto wheels or abbreviated lotto systems), I have received questions on systems, wheels, wheeling formulas, converting combination files to wheels, wheels from positional ranges, wheel algorithm… The search page has also been busier than ever with similar searches.
My gesture to the devoted lottery wheelers is the lotto wheeling software programs: FillWheel.EXE and especially LottoWheeler.EXE. That's how I convert the theoretical lotto systems ('1,2,3,4,5,6' etc.) to combinations of real picks ('29,13,33,2,44,39' etc.) The two lottery wheeling applications are freeware and free to download (for registered members!) The lottery players don't have to pay for a lotto number wheeling service. Get your money back, pal! Use the money for playing the lottery instead.
LottoWheeler.EXE is the preferred choice, given its superior functionality. It covers the Powerball/Mega Millions and Euromillions lottery games as well.
The program takes a source lotto wheel file with theoretical numbers: '1,2,3,4,5,6' etc. The lottery player types her/his lotto picks - i.e. the lotto numbers to play. The picks replace the numbers in the original system file. This process is what they call 'lottery or lotto wheeling'; the software is known as lotto wheeler.
Finally, the program saves the new lotto combinations to a destination file. The program FillWheel.EXE also parses the source file to make sure it is in the correct format.
The lotto wheels come from many sources, especially from lottery books. The wheels are now available in gigantic quantity online — mostly free. Typos are a way of life. My lotto wheeler programs can even fix some typos and other errors. FillWheel.EXE and LottoWheeler.EXE work with any text file, with up to 100 numbers per combination and thousands of lotto combinations (lines).
The free lotto wheeling software programs do not come with any lotto or lottery wheels. But other lottery/lotto software programs created by yours truly can create countless wheels or reduced — for free, of course. The lotto wheels my software creates have two special qualities: The lottery systems are balanced (i.e. every lotto number is equally distributed; no number bias) and randomized (i.e. the generating process follows the reality, which is a process ruled by Randomness Almighty). Look for lotto wheeling programs at this incredible site with the CheckWheel radical in their file names.
The free wheeling programs work with these types of lotto games: lotto-5, lotto-6, lotto-7...Powerball, Mega-Million Big Game, Thunderball...Euromillions. Of course, specific lotto wheels are needed. You can find at this web site unique lotto systems for these games.
How the wheeling software works.
First, it needs a lotto wheel file in text format. For example, this is an excellent lotto-6 wheel, for 18 numbers, assuring the minimum guarantee '4 of 6' in 45 lines (combinations):
This is the correct format for a wheel source file to run LottoWheeler.EXE - with 6-number lotto wheels. Copy and paste only the 45 combinations and save the content to a simple text file (e.g. WHEEL18.46 eith exactly 18 lines).
Second, the wheeling software requires a destination file. It is recommended to use a different name for the destination file. This is the file that will hold the user's picks: The actual lotto numbers that will replace the theoretical numbers in the lottery wheel.
Thirdly, the software requires the size of the combinations: How many lotto numbers in each line of the wheel (the theoretical lotto system). If your wheel is for 5-number games, then 5 is the number of combinations per line. Every line in the lotto-5 wheel must have exactly 5 numbers per combination. The numbers must be separated by comma or blank space.
Fourth, the lottery wheeler needs to know the BIGGEST number in the lotto system. The software assumes you already saw the lotto wheel. You already know that it crunches N numbers. For example, an 18-number lotto 6 wheel that assures the minimum guarantee of '4 in 6'. The BIGGEST number in the lotto system is 18.
Finally, the lottery wheeling programs need to know your lotto picks. You can either type your picks manually, at the screen prompt; or, you can save your lotto picks to a text file first. In the latter case, you might have the lotto numbers generated by a lottery strategy program, such as SkipSystem.EXE. You simply direct the lotto wheeler to your system file that holds the lottery numbers you want to play.
The specifics for Powerball/Mega Millions and Euromillions wheels. You can start with a lotto-5 wheel. Next, add each Powerball number at the end of each lotto-5 wheel. For example, you selected a 15-number wheel with the '3 in 5' minimum guarantee. Line 1 is:
1 2 3 4 5
Thus, a Powerball/Mega Millions wheel must consist of 6-number lines.
The Euromillions wheels add a second Powerball (named EuroStar). Thus, a Euromillions wheel must consist of 7-number lines.
The picks files (the actual lotto numbers to play) for Powerball/Mega Millions and Euromillions are created correctly by SkipSystem.EXE. The files must have two lines. The first line holds the regular numbers to play. The second line holds the powerballs/eurostars.
That's all there is to this extraordinarily logical lotto wheeler software.
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 10 11 12
1 2 3 16 17 18
1 2 7 8 13 14
1 3 7 9 13 15
1 4 5 7 14 15
1 4 7 10 13 16
1 4 8 11 15 18
1 4 9 12 14 17
1 5 7 11 13 17
1 5 8 12 15 16
1 5 9 10 14 18
1 6 7 12 13 18
1 6 8 10 15 17
1 6 9 11 14 16
2 3 8 9 14 15
2 4 5 8 13 15
2 4 7 12 15 17
2 4 8 10 14 16
2 4 9 11 13 18
2 5 7 10 15 18
2 5 8 11 14 17
2 5 9 12 13 16
2 6 7 11 15 16
2 6 8 12 14 18
2 6 9 10 13 17
3 4 7 11 14 18
3 4 8 12 13 17
3 4 9 10 15 16
3 5 7 12 14 16
3 5 8 10 13 18
3 5 9 11 15 17
3 6 7 10 14 17
3 6 8 11 13 16
3 6 9 12 15 18
4 5 6 7 8 9
4 5 6 13 14 16
4 5 10 11 16 17
4 6 10 12 16 18
4 6 11 13 15 17
5 6 11 12 17 18
7 8 9 10 11 12
7 8 9 16 17 18
10 11 12 13 14 15
13 14 15 16 17 18
You want to add 5 powerballs to the system: 1 2 3 4 5. One line in the lotto-5 wheel becomes…5 lines:
1 2 3 4 5, 1
1 2 3 4 5, 2
1 2 3 4 5, 3
1 2 3 4 5, 4
1 2 3 4 5, 5
1 2 3 4 5, 1 2
1 2 3 4 5, 2 3
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