My PHP Powerball Picker
I generally have terrible luck with the lottery. I only seem to play it after the jackpot goes over $200 million. That’s when my demented psyche deems it to be worth $1 to play.
I typically buy a 1-5 dollar Quick Pick… and I’ve never won. In all 20 or so times I’ve played. Obviously the Quick Pick is intentionally giving me bad numbers. To test my theory I created my own system to pick numbers. No longer will the lottery machine choose my numbers for me. Now I’m sure to win.
You can use it too if you like: Chris Hillman’s Powerball Picker™.
If you’d like to see the source… steal it, molest it, claim it is yours… you can get it here. I give up all rights to this code. Use at your own risk. No warranty expressed or implied. Of course if it picks winning numbers for you I know you’ll do the right thing and send me a fat check.
on February 15th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
[…] The Powerball jackpot is huge. I used my trusty PHP Powerball Picker to generate 5 picks for tonights drawing for $310 million dollars. Shortly after 9:00 MST I went to the Powerball web site to check the results. in one of my picks I got 2 of the 5 main numbers, but not the Powerball. I went to the “Prizes and Odds” page to see if that was worth anything. I found this chart: […]