© 2009 Hunter Greene

"The only iPhone App you'll need if you play Megamillions or Powerball."

Current News: Version 1.1 now in the App Store. You can also follow us on Twitter @bigtimelotto. If you played low frequency megaballs and powerballs on the last few drawings (as I always suggest) , you probably won some money!

Application Description:

BigTime Lotto is a great utility for tracking your weekly lottery tickets. Each time you open BigTime Lotto, it downloads the latest drawing results for either Megamillions or Powerball and automatically checks to see if any of your saved tickets have a winning play. You also have access to statistical data collected from drawing results since 2006.

Say you want to generate a ticket that has only the most frequently occurring Megaballs, but also your favorite numbers and a few numbers that you never want to use, just select your favorite numbers, never-use numbers, and check the High Frequency checkbox in the Preferences page. If you don't like the numbers that are generated, you can manually enter them in.

Features:
- Support for both Megamillions and Powerball.
- Automatically checks saved tickets for winning plays.
- View last 20 drawing results.
- Statistical data since 2006 shows the highest and lowest occurring numbers.
- Custom number generator preferences let you select your favorite numbers, high or low frequency numbers, fully random, or numbers you never want to use.
- Individual numbers can be manually entered and can be "locked in" to keep during subsequent generations.

The history of BigTime Lotto:
Each week a co-worker and I play Megamillions, and being the nerds that we are, we decided to download and graph all the previous drawing results to try and see if certain numbers occurred more than others. After looking at the data, I decided to play only low frequency numbers for the Megaball with the theory being that the frequency of the lower numbers should move more toward the average frequency. Now, any good Statistician would say that each drawing is an independent event and therefore the probability of a certain number is simply 1 out of the total number of possible outcomes and they'd be correct, but never-the-less I still like to play the low frequency numbers.


This app would not have been possible without the coding talent of Alex Silverman at Big Nerd Ranch, check them out at...
http://silvermanasoft.appspot.com   and   http://www.bignerdranch.com

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