Wheels Overview
Wheels are a powerful betting technique that many users have asked for. Lotto Sorcerer has 7,000 built-in wheels that will work with most lotto-type lotteries.
To use a wheel, select it from the "Generate" dropdown menu in the Suggestions tab of the Main window. Anything that is not a "discrete" suggestion is a wheel.
You can edit the existing wheels using the Wheel Editor (menu item "Utilities > Wheels > Wheel Editor" ), or create your own by using the Wheel Creator (menu item "Utilities > Wheels > Wheel Creator" ).
An Example
It is best to illustrate this by using an actual example; in this case, we will use Indiana's Lucky 5 lottery. This lottery draws 5 numbers from a pool of 36 numbers. This lottery 376,992 combinations, and cost 50¢ per play. We decide to use the wheel "230 wheeled suggestions (4 numbers match if 4/14 numbers drawn)" . At 50¢ a play, this would cost $115.
For this wheel, a truncated pool is used: instead of 36 numbers in the pool, the pool is now only 14 numbers. If four of the five numbers are drawn from this truncated pool of 14 numbers, and we played all 230 wheeled suggestions, we are guaranteed at least one win of 4 numbers matching, a $200 prize. It is certainly possible that we may have more than one set of 4-number-matching winners, and it is quite probable we will have several 3-number-matching winners, but we are guaranteed to have at least one 4-number-matching winner.
How to "Read" a Wheel Description
Wheels are described as "n wheeled suggestions (t numbers match if x/z numbers drawn)"
where
n = number of wheeled suggestions generated;
t = guaranteed number of matching numbers;
x = numbers drawn from the truncated pool;
v = truncated pool size
Although not part of the wheel description, per se, the variable k is used in the different wheel utilities to refer to the numbers drawn for that particular lottery. For example, if you have a lottery that draws 6 numbers from 1 to 48, k = 6.
Usage
To use a wheel, select it from the "Generate" dropdown menu in the Suggestions tab of the Main window. Anything that is not a "discrete" suggestion is a wheel.
You can edit the existing wheels using the Wheel Editor (menu item "Utilities > Wheels > Wheel Editor" ), or create your own by using the Wheel Creator (menu item "Utilities > Wheels > Wheel Creator" ).
Lotto Sorcerer also has a "Lotto Wheeler" which lets you generate your own wheels, completely independent from Lotto Sorcerer's own suggestions. To invoke, use menu item "Utilities > Wheels > Lotto Wheeler" .
Notes
If you wish to play a wheel in its entirety, all filters must be turned off. Why? Because Lotto Sorcerer will create the wheeled suggestions, and then apply the filters.