• Bookmark this page or the Menu Page or the Home Page into your Favorites folder.
• Look up the latest Winning Lottery Numbers by clicking on the 'Lottery Results' portion of the Menu Bar.
• Use the Menu Page to get to all the various games by States and by Balls in a Game
• Play for Fun!  Generate long lists of numbers just to see what would have happened if you did wager $100 or so.
• The easiest thing to do is to just click on the 'Fill Card with Picks' button.
• You can use the 'Pick a Single Board' button to fill out the card one board(panel) at a time.
• Every time you fill out a board(panel), the results are stored away for you to print later on.
• Click on the 'Your Results' button to get a timestamped list with a Summary Table.
• You can use the 'Reset All' button to start over fresh.
• You can generate really long lists of lottery numbers. The limits for how many cards (playslips) you can fill out in one session have yet to be determined, but are probably restricted by the amount of RAM memory in your computer.  If you determine the limit for your computer, just generate a few cards less than the limit, print out the results (or cut and paste the results into your word processor program), click on ''Reset All' and start another list.
• All Lottery Number Picker pages will let you 'Reject' and/or 'Preselect' numbers.  Just click on the appropriate button to drastically change your odds of winning or losing.
• A sad note for users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer®.  It can't do what other browsers can do when it comes to performing standard browser operations.
  We've had to disable 'Preselect' and 'Reject' for IE users.
  We recommend Firefox® as the best (it's Free, too) browser for enjoying your visit to A Lottery Number Picker.
• Some of the buttons generate Pop-Up windows to display Lottery Number Picker information (not advertisements or other sneaky stuff!).  If your browser prevents you from opening Pop-Up windows, you might want to override that feature while you are using A Lottery Number Picker.
• Take a peek at our 'Notes' Page from time-to-time.  It's about as close to a Lottery Blog as we care to get.  Ol' Lucky Buck presents his thoughts, opinions, and notions about Lottery Odds, Lottery Wheels, and so on.
• If you need help or have other questions, want to make a comment or share a story, please send an email to us.

• 'Not just a Random Number Generator'  The Lottery Number Picker machines really do pick the ball numbers from a virtual 'bin'.  Just as if you were picking a number from a hat filled with unique numbers, there's not a chance that you can pick the same number twice.  When you go back to pick numbers for the next board(panel), all the numbers are pumped back into the virtual 'bin'.
• 'Lottery Results'  Get the results from official lottery web sites.  No web site should be more up-to-date and accurate than the official one.
• 'Menu'  Comprehensive lists of Lottery Game-types arranged by State or by Balls Numbers in a particular game-type.
• 'Notes'  A collection of opinions by our roving raconteur, ol' Lucky Buck.  Be sure to take a peek at Those Incredible Odds!
• 'Site Map'  A special menu of every available page on our web site.  Some pages listed there are accessable from no other menu.
• 'Multiple Cards'  You can fill out more than one card(playslip).  After one card is filled, another blank one appears.  All the cards are available by clicking on the 'Your Results' button (providing you don't exit the current screen or click on 'Reset All').
• 'Your Results'  When you've picked one or more boards(panels) on a card(playslip) you can click on 'Your Results' to get a pop-up window, suitable for printing or cutting and pasting into your word processor. Each time you open the Pop-Up window there will be a current Timestamp, a list of all the cards you've filled-out, and a Summary Table showing the frequency of which numbers were selected, including a line designating Average Frequency.
• 'Print This Window' button: Works as intended with the Firefox® browser.  Internet Explorer® users should right-click on the window and select Print from the drop-down menu.
• 'Reject' button: You can eliminate 1 or more numbers from appearing in your picks.  This feature has a dramatic effect on lowering odds.
• 'Preselect' button: You can force 1 or more favorite numbers to appear on each board(panel) along with randomly picked numbers.
• 'Shuffle':  We've proven to ourselves that shuffling the balls will not increase/decrease the randomness with which the balls are selected, but, that being stated, you may shuffle the balls around as often as you like. Each shuffle 'shakes-'em-up' anywhere from 4 to 11 times.
• 'Reset Machine' button:  Lets you undo any shuffles you may have made and restores the numbers in the machine to lowest-to-highest numeric sequence (less any Rejections).
• 'Reset All' button:  Restores everything on the page back to a fresh beginning.  If you have generated some picks, you will be given an opportunity to view them in the 'Your Results' pop-up window before everything is reset.
• 'Odds'  Shows the odds that the drawn numbers will match your picked numbers.  Within the Odds pop-up window is a 'Calculate' button that will let you see how the odds change by picking more numbers.
• 'Summary Table'  is a running tally of your picked numbers.
  If the game for which you are making picks has more than one set of numbered balls, like Powerball (5 balls from 55 plus 1 ball from another set of 42), then there are two Summary Tables.
• 'Average Occurrence'  Shows how many times any ball number should be appearing in the Summary Table.  The average is unaffected by any numbers you may have Preselected or Rejected.
  If the game for which you are making picks has more than one set of numbered balls, like Powerball, then two Average Occurrences are shown.
• 'Played as the following'  Beneath each card(playslip) is one or more links to the official website for more information about the game-type currently on your screen.
• 'Set Up'  A feature we intend to implement in the future.  It will let you pre-determine how many cards(playslips) and/or boards(panels) you want; and then , by clicking on the 'Run per SetUp' button, your results will be most quickly generated.