Lottery Number Generator
Traditional Lotteries
All you have to do is enter how many numbers the lottery ticket has so the lottery number generator will know how many numbers to consider, how many numbers you need, whether or not to allow repetition and the date of the lucky lottery draw. Most of us have bought at least a lottery ticket in their life or at least know how the lottery games work. Using a random lottery number generator gives you only a minuscule chance of winning i.e. 1 in 14 million in 6 from 49 games and 1 in 258,890,850 in Mega Millions.
First choose your lottery region by clicking the relevant flag. You will then see a drop-down list of the major lotteries for this region.
Next, select your favorite lottery. The lottery settings will be automatically entered for you. Just click the GET button to get your numbers. By continuing to click GET, you can generate as many tickets as you like.
Both Standard (single-set) and Powerball (double-set) lottery formats are included in our lists.
Choose your own format
If you click on the boxes, you can manually select your own preferred lottery settings. Use this for lotteries that are not listed, or if you want to experiment with different lottery settings.
Digit Pick
By selecting the 'Digit Pick' option, you can generate numbers for lotteries in which you choose 3, 4 or more digits, each from the range 0 to 9. Such lotteries are often known by names such as 'Pick 3', 'Lucky 4', or 'Daily 3'.
Lucky Dip Selection
If you choose the 'Lucky Dip' option, your numbers will be RANDOMLY generated from the range of possible values.
Personal Numbers
A new, fun and exciting feature of our Psychic Science lottery picker allows you to select numbers based on a numerological analysis of your name, or other chosen words.
Type your full name in the box (English characters only). The app will then use our special algorithm to automatically select numbers that match important numerological features of your name.
Alternatively, you can type in other meaningful words, such as an invocation or affirmation.
Please note that all processing is carried out locally on your own device. Your name or other words remain private and are NOT sent to our servers.
Depending on the lottery settings and on the numerological complexity of your name or words, only some of your numbers may be personalised. These are displayed in green. If insufficient personalised numbers can be generated, random numbers will be added to complete the ticket (these are shown in white). If some of your numbers are white, you can generate different tickets by continuing to click GET. If all your numbers are green, they remain fixed for the name or words that you have entered. You can, however, generate additional tickets by typing in variations of your name or words.
Personalised numbers based on the numerology of your name can also be generated for Digit Pick lotteries. In these cases different tickets can be obtained by continuing to click on the GET button.
In this challenge we are going to write a Python program that automatically generates six random numbers (from 1 to 50) and display them on the screen, sorted in ascending order.
The program will need to make sure that each number is unique; the same number cannot come twice in the selection of six selected numbers.
Learning Objectives
By completing this code, you will understand the difference between the two types of loops used in Python:
- For Loops (Count-Controlled Loops): A count-controlled loop is one that is executed a certain number of times. In our example, because we know that we need exactly six numbers we are going to use a for loop to repeat (iterate through) some of our code exactly six times.
- While Loops (Condition-Controlled Loops): A condition-controlled loop such as a While loop keeps going while a certain condition is true. As soon as the condition becomes false, the loop stops iterating. In our case, when generating a random number, we are going the check that the new number has not already been picked up. If it has then we are going to generate a new one and will carry on doing so till we get a number that has not already been picked up.
Check the code
Your Challenge
- Complete this code to store your own selection of six numbers. For testing purposes, you can store these numbers directly into the code and display these to the end-user. Alternatively you can ask the end-user to type six numbers.
- Then your code will use the program given above to generate the six lottery numbers.
- Finally your code will check and inform the end-user of how many numbers the user guessed correctly by comparing the user’s six numbers with the six randomly generated lottery numbers!
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