How to Make Custom Lottery Wheels

Here is how you can make your own Custom lotto wheels using Lottery Director.

Your guidebook describes this, with illustrations of your screens and menus.

You also have a "Quick Start" book that guides you step-by-step through making your first Custom lottery wheel.

There are three steps to completing your lottery wheel.  All of them are on simple menus:

1. You select your wheel generation options.



• You start by choosing the kind of wheel you want to make.
• You choose how many lottery numbers you want to place into the wheel.
• You can include or exclude Key numbers in your wheel. Or, you can make a wheel with Zones of numbers, in which each Zone matches the game's winning numbers in a different way.
• You can "offset" the numbers -- which later lets you combine, or "merge", several wheels into one wheeling system.
• You choose how many final combinations you want to have in your wheel.
• If your wheel will exceed 500,000 combinations, you can select "filters" to reduce its size to that amount or lower -- e.g., Sums, Even/Odd, Decades, Final Digits, Consecutives, and others.
• You can preview the results before generating the wheel. Then, your program goes ahead and makes the wheel.
  
  

 

2. You check the wheel's performance.



• You start Professional Wheeling's "Check Hits and Holes" program. This program verifies your new wheel (or any wheel), by showing how many prizes the wheel produces -- at the Jackpot level, and lower prize levels.
• You can choose to test the entire wheel, or any selected portion of it.
• The program shows the percentages of each prize's possible matches contained in the wheel. For example, if the wheel matches just 50% of the possible 5-number sets, you see that fact.
• It also shows you each exact matching quantity of the first 10,000 matches. For example, you see which numbers give you the most multiple wins. Typically, these are your highest priority numbers when you are wheeling.
• The program identifies any "Holes" found in the wheel. A "Hole" is a combination that is missing from the wheel -- if that combination is drawn by your game, you will not produce the desired prize.
• You can repair the wheel. You have a menu of options for repairing Holes. For example, Lottery Director can repair each Hole as it is found. Or, Lottery Director can  wait  until it has accumulated a  Holes List,  and then repair the wheel by combining Holes and correcting them. All of this is done automatically.
  
  

 

3. You import the wheel into your Lotto program.



• You select Professional Wheeling's "Import a Lotto Wheel" program.  It's a standard, built-in part of Lottery Director.
• This program imports wheels in a standard 'Text' format -- including your new custom wheel.
• Your wheel is now in your program's Wheels Directory -- ready to play in your game.

Notes

What a Lottery Wheel Contains

When you make a lottery wheel, you are making sets of  'pointers'  to numbers that you want to play.

For example, this combination might appear in your wheel:  1-2-3-4-5-6.  This does not mean that you must play the lottery numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6 in your game (although you could, if you wish).  It means that, when you place your own numbers into the wheel, you will have a combination with your first six numbers in it.  The wheel will be 'pointing' to your 1st number, 2nd number, 3rd number, and so on.

You may play the wheel many times in the future, and even perhaps in different lottery games.  You may be playing different numbers each time.  In this example, your wheel ensures that your first six numbers are always combined for you.

How "Offsets" Work

You can choose to apply an "offset" as you make your wheel.  An "offset" is simply a shifting of the wheel's pointers to a higher value.

For example, if you are creating a 10-number wheel with  no offset  you are making 'pointers of 1 to 10' -- it's a wheel that will combine your first 10 numbers.  If you use an  offset of 5,  your wheel's pointers will now be shifted higher by that amount -- and will range from '6 to 15'.  The wheel will combine your '6th through 15th' numbers.

Why use offsets?   If you merge two or more wheels -- with different offsets -- into a common wheel, you are really creating a new wheel with customized, internal "Zones" of numbers.  The Zones can be adjacent to each other, or they can overlap -- the choices are yours, when you make the wheels.

For example:   You could create a 30-number wheel that contains two Zones of numbers.  The first Zone (say, with 10 numbers) can produce a "5 for 5" win guarantee;  the second Zone (with 20 numbers) can produce a "5 for 4" guarantee;  and, the overall wheel can produce a "6 for 3" guarantee.

You could, in this example, include a third Zone that overlaps or "bridges" the other two, producing additional matching possibilities.

Lottery Director has a "Join Wheels" function which will merge multiple wheels into one final wheel.  It will automatically eliminate any duplicate combinations which coincidentally were in the separate wheels.  You gain the advantage of one wheeling system -- having to wheel your numbers only once, filtering them once, and not having to worry about any redundant combinations.

When you test the wheel with Lottery Director Professional Wheeling, you can test the entire wheel, or any selected Zone (or Zones).  In this way you can prove the wheel's overall matching and win ratios, as well as those of the individual Zones.

About "Timing"

When you are testing wheels -- verifying their win ratios, and repairing "holes" -- many checks have to be made, often running into the millions.  Even the fastest PC processors can take a lot of time.

Lottery Director provides  five  unique ways of handling this.

1. First, your program gives you a continuous, running estimate of the remaining time that will be required to complete your wheel.  Other programs show you the "elapsed" time since you started the wheel -- that is not very useful information (you already knew it anyway).  You need to know how long your PC will be occupied in finishing the task; and that is what it shows you.
   
   
2. Your program gives you a light 'beep' tone every five minutes while still active.  You can be occupied in another part of your home or office, and be assured that your PC task is running.
   
   
3. At any time, you can interrupt the wheel testing -- in case you need your PC for another job.  Lottery Director will store the current wheel status.  You can simply resume at another time, from where you left off.
   
   
4. If you have edited (modified) some portion of the wheel, you do not have to test the entire wheel again.  You can simply select the modified portion, and check it.  This can save you much time when refining a large and complex wheel.
   
   
5. Best of All -- Wheel testing and Repair can be treated as a single, unattended task.  Lottery Director has the ability to automatically repair any "holes" found in your wheels.  Literally, you can set some automatic repair options and 'walk away'.  When you return, the wheel will be fully tested, with every required combination installed for producing the prize you want.

Ownership of Wheels

In case you are wondering:   When you make Custom wheels with Lottery Director Professional Wheeling, they are yours.  There are no royalties or other fees that you will ever owe to us on the wheeling systems you make.  You can play them, publish them -- and offer them to other players.

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