Well now you don't have to Wonder.

After seeing Carol Vorderman's section in the Sun newspaper (5th Feb. 97) where she describes Hot and Cold numbers (i.e. those likely to come up most/least often), I decided to write a program that would generate seven random numbers and test her findings. The result was NOTALOT which shows how lucky you would have been over an extended period using a given set of numbers. The result were surprising, to say the least!. 

I always understood the odds were slim but didn't realise how microscopically slim they were. On one run I waited 175,000 years before I even got FIVE numbers!!! 

Having written and run this program I have concluded that the National Lottery is nothing more than a form of indirect taxation. In future I think I can find better things to spend my money on........ 
Click Here to Download Notalot.exe(36k bytes)

Click Here to Download the all new Visual Basic version Notalot2.zip (123k bytes)

GOOD LUCK... and BE LUCKY.......