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LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL USER GUIDE ---------------- Version 1.00 6 May 1989 Copyright 1989 by Herb Rose All Rights Reserved LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 1 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Introduction. One of the most effective ways to play lotteries is to 'wheel' a set of numbers. Wheeling numbers involves playing a large selection of numbers, and combining them into bets which cover all or most of the possible combinations of numbers. For instance, if you are playing a pick-6 lottery, you may wish to play a number wheel with 10 numbers in it. By choosing your combinations of these 10 numbers carefully, you can guarantee that if your 10 numbers contain 4, 5, or 6 of the numbers drawn, you will have at least one winning ticket, with as few as 3 bets (if all 6 numbers are among your 10-number wheel, a 4-number match can be guaranteed with 3 bets). Obviously, number wheels are a powerful tool for playing lotteries. Serious lotto players have known this for years. Unfortunately, setting up wheeling systems and incorporating them into your personal tracking and predicting schemes can be very tedious work. That's where your computer and LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL come in. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL takes the drudgery and guesswork out of wheeling numbers, and lets you concentrate on more relaxing things, like planning how to spend your winnings. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL is a companion program to LOTTO MAGIC. LOTTO MAGIC is a sophisticated lotto tracking/analyzing program which can increase your odds dramatically by applying proven mathematical and historical analysis techniques to your lotto history. Using LOTTO MAGIC to determine which numbers are more likely to be drawn, and including them in your wheel, can give you a decided edge in any lottery. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL can also be run as a stand-alone program. It provides the most powerful and sophisticated wheeling selection techniques available, including : 1. Balanced sets 2. Odd/Even distribution 3. Special number range selection 4. King and Queen numbers (also called KEY numbers) Before we get into the operating instructions for LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, we have to take care of some legal and business matters. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 2 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── License Agreement. This software is distributed as shareware. Under this distribution method, you may distribute the programs and data files included with this package free of charge for the expressed purpose of evaluating the program. This evaluation period is limited to 3 weeks. At the end of that time, you should make the decision to either stop using the program and delete it from your disks, or to purchase the program and continue to use it. This software is not, and has never been, free orin the public domain. It is copyrighted material, and may only be reproduced in accordance with these guidelines : 1. All files must be distributed as a set 2. No files may be altered in any way 3. Reproduction or distribution charges must be no more than $6 4. All copyright and legal notices must remain intact 5. The registered version of this software may not be distributed. In addition, the software must not be un-assembled or reverse engineered in any. Your support of shareware authors keeps low-cost, quality programs available. Please do not treat shareware programs as FREE or PUBLIC DOMAIN software. A lot of thought went into the decision to distribute this software as Shareware. Only your support can keep this program and others like it available on such a convenient and inexpensive distribution channel. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ordering Information. To register your copy of LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, please fill out the following registration form, or a reasonable facsimile, and send it with your check or money order to : ADEPT Software P.O. Box 2181 Woodbridge, Va. 22193 LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL Registration ______ @ $15 = ________ LOTTO MAGIC (not a shareware product) ______ @ $35 = ________ (See appendix for description) LOTTO MAGIC Demonstration Diskette ______ @ $2 = ________ Subtotal ________ Va. residents add 4.5% tax ________ Shipping & Handling 4.00 Total ________ Registration will be rewarded with the following : 1. Distribution diskettes which do not contain the 'Shareware' banner screen. 2. More wheel control files allowing up to 25 numbers to be included in the number wheel. This is not an attempt at 'cripple-ware'. The sheer size of the wheel control files forced a limit to the number that could easily be distributed on a shareware diskette. 3. The latest version of the software, which is continually being updated to reflect user feedback. 4. Telephone and BBS support. 5. The appreciation and gratitude of shareware authors everywhere. 6. A sense of personal satisfaction on your part. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 4 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Warranty. This software is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the software is with you. In no event shall Adept Software be liable to you for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this software even if Adept Software or it's authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party. Use of this product constitutes your acceptance of this agreement and subjects you to it's contents. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 5 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. To run LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL you will need an IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible computer with at least 256K RAM. Monochrome, CGA, or EGA display adapters may be used. A hard disk is recommended, but not necessary to run the program. You will also need DOS version 2.1 or later. INSTALLING LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL ON HARD DISK SYSTEMS. To install the software on your hard disk, you simply need to create a subdirectory named WHEEL (you can choose any name you wish, of course) and copy all files from your distribution diskette into that subdirectory. i.e. - MD \WHEEL CD \WHEEL COPY A:*.* \WHEEL When complete, the following files should be in your WHEEL subdirectory : WHEEL.DOC WHEEL.EXE READ.ME 53 files ending with .BIN To run LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, simply go to your \WHEEL subdirectory and type WHEEL. RUNNING LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL. TO run LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, simply type 'wheel' at your DOS prompt. You will need the following files in your current directory : WHEEL.EXE - the actual program. All files that end with '.BIN' - wheel control files. The wheel control files contain the the actual wheel systems that the program uses to generate sets of numbers to be played in the lottery. You will notice that they have names like '6WHEEL12.BIN', etc. This means that it is a WHEEL control file for pick-6 lotteries, with 12 numbers in the wheel. Wheel control files are included for 5,6, and 7 number lottery drawings, with 8 to 15 numbers per wheel. The distribution diskettes sent to registered users contain wheel control files for up to 25 numbers per wheel, but this requires multiple disks. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 6 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── These wheel control files are in a special binary format, and CAN NOT BE EDITTED. Do not attempt to read them with an editor or word processing program. RUNNING LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL ON FLOPPY-BASED SYSTEMS. It is best to run this program on systems with hard disks. The program can be run on a system with one or two floppies, however. If your system does not have a hard disk, the program may ask you to place the diskette containing the proper wheel control files into drive 'A' when it is needed. You should place all the wheel control files on separate diskettes, according to how many numbers are drawn in the lottery. I.e. - all wheel control files for pick-6 lotteries on one diskette, files for pick-7 lotteries on another, etc. The program will request the specific file that it is looking for. USING BIOS VIDEO CALLS. Some IBM PC compatibles are 'less compatible' than others. One of biggest problems with these 'nearly compatibles' is that the VIDEO DISPLAY MEMORY is not addressable in the same way that it is on the IBM PC. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL uses very fast video techniques to make writing to the screen as quick as possible. Unfortunately, these techniques will not work correctly with these 'nearly compatible' computers. In order to allow LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL to run correctly on these machines, simply add /B to the command line when you run the program, and the BIOS screen update routines will be used instead of LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL's specialized routines. EXAMPLE : WHEEL /B *runs LMW with BIOS video calls WHEEL *runs LMW with FAST video calls **NOTE** : If you specify the /B option when running LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, there will be a SIGNIFICANT decrease in speed when writing to your computer's display screen. Only use this option if LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL will not run in it's normal mode! THE SHAREWARE SCREEN. This is simply a title screen with copyright information and a shareware reminder. Press any key to continue the program. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 7 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THE MAIN MENU. The first thing you will see is the MAIN MENU. Here are descriptions of each of the items on the menu. P - Set Game Parameters. Use this screen to tell LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL what kind of lotto game is being played, and how to wheel the numbers. The program expects you to provide the following information : 1. How many numbers do you choose in the game ? This means how many numbers do YOU choose when playing a game ticket. If your state draws 6 numbers plus a bonus number, but your ticket only shows 6 numbers, then enter a '6' here. 2. What is the lowest number in the lotto ? Usually, this is a '1'. It refers to the smallest number that can be drawn. 3. What is the largest number in the lotto ? This refers to the largest number that can be drawn. It may be 39, 40, 54, or 80, to name a few popular lotto formats. 4. How many numbers to wheel. Here you specify how many numbers will be used in the wheel. Valid entries are 8 to 15 numbers. Remember that the more numbers you wheel, the better your chances of winning, but also the number of combinations goes up very quickly. Scale the numbers in the wheel so that you are not betting more than you can afford. See the appendix for a list of how many combinations there are for various wheel sizes. 5. Special numbers to be played in every game. You may enter 1 or 2 numbers which LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL will make sure get played IN EVERY SET OF NUMBERS IT PRODUCES. Use this option only if you are SURE that a particular number or 2 are going to be drawn. (p.s. - you can never be totally sure, but you have to play your hunches sometimes!). Numbers that are played in every set are often referred to as King and Queen numbers. These numbers are not counted as part of the wheel. I.E. - if you specify you want to wheel 10 numbers, and then enter a 14 to be played in every game, then 10 other numbers will be wheeled and combined with the '14' to produce your betting combinations. 6. Other numbers to be included in the wheel. If you want to make sure that particular numbers get played in the wheel, enter up to 10 of them here. These numbers will be LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 8 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── included in the normal combinations of the wheel, not necessarily played every game, as King and Queen numbers are. If you do not enter enough numbers to fill the wheel, LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL will choose random numbers to fill in the number wheel. For instance, if you are wheeling 10 numbers, and you enter a '13' in the 'Special numbers' area, then enter 5,6, and 20 here, you have supplied 3 of the 10 numbers, so LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL will choose 7 random numbers to complete the wheel. C - Set Select Criteria. This is a special menu. It allows you to tell LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL exactly what criteria you wish to impose on the number sets created. You can choose only odd numbers, or only even numbers, or any mix you like. You can make sure that at numbers within a certain range (like 1 to 12) are included in every set. You can even control whether the sum of the numbers ends in an odd or even number. This screen allows you to specify sets that : 1. Have at least __ odd numbers. You can specify that the sets chosen to be played have at least 1, 2, 3, etc. odd numbers in them. Or you can leave this field 0 to indicate that you don't care how many odd numbers are played in each set. 2. Have at least __ even numbers. See above. 3. The sum of the numbers is in the range __ to __. When all of the numbers in the set are added together, their sum must fall within this range to be played. See the section on Number Balancing later for more information. 4. Have at least __ numbers in the range __ to __. There are 2 ranges that you can set. If you wish to have at least one number in the range 1 to 10 in every set, you would indicate that in this line. 5. The last digit of the sum is one of ... This is a special field, and should be used with care. You will see the digits 0 - 9 listed here. If you want to exclude all sets that generate an ODD SUM, you would replace the 1,3,5,7, and 9 with x's. Only sets that generate a sum whose last digit matches one of the ones shown here will be used. W - Wheel a set of numbers. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 9 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Use this option to actually generate number sets to be played in the next lotto drawing. You will be shown the maximum number of sets that may be generated using the parameters enetred on the 'P'arameter screen. You may generate up to that number of sets to be played. Note that the maximum number of sets available for any wheel is 3000. This is done primarily for convenience, since the number of combinations in these wheels is so large. For example - an 18 number wheel for a pick-7 lotto has 31,824 possible combinations. The wheel control file for that wheel system alone would have been over 150K if we didn't limit the number of combinations. The wheels that are limited to 3000 combinations still represent an accurate wheel, since the combinations have been arranged to insure that every combination gets equal use throughout the wheel. In short, this means that whether you play 10 sets or 100 or 3000, the sets generated by these wheel control files provide you with the best possibilities for winners. See the appendix for a table of possible combinations using various wheeling systems. After you enter the number of sets to generate, the sets will be generated automatically. If LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL cannot create as many sets as you wish (possibly because of too restrictive selection criteriea), it will generate as many as it can. The numbers that have been used in the wheel will be shown on the first line of the data window. Generated number sets will be shown in the rest of the window. Note that only 40 sets will be shown at once. If you have generated more than 40 sets, you can display the sets one screen at a time. You may either print the screens one at a time, as they appear with the Print Screen key, or you may use your DOS print command to print the file 'PICKS.LM'. Each time you play a wheel, LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL writes a file named 'PICKS.LM' which contains all the bets generated by the program. It is this file that is checked when you choos 'Check for Winning Tickets' from the Main Menu. You may print this file, or rename it to save for future reference. Remember that the next time you run LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL the file will be overwritten, so if you wish to save the file, you should copy it or rename it to something besides PICKS.LM . After the sets have been displayed, pressing any key will return you to the MAIN MENU. Standard Systems - If you are playing a pick-6 lotto with no king and queen numbers, or a pick-7 lotto with just a king number, you may elect to use one of the 'standard' wheeling systems. You will be asked if you wish to use a standard system upon entering the 'WHEEL' screen, LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 10 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── when LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL sees that your parameters qualify for a standard system. The standard systems are listed on your screen to choose from. They tell you how many numbers are in the wheel, what the win guarantee is, and how many sets you must play to fulfill the system. For example : System 1 : 8 number wheel, 4/4 guarantee, 8 bets This means that System 1 wheels 8 numbers. It gives you 8 different combinations to be played, and if any 4 of the 6 numbers that are drawn are part of your 8-number wheel, you are guaranteed at least one 4 number winning ticket. Someof the systems gurantee a 4-number win if any 4 numbers in the wheel match, others guarantee a 5-number win if any 5 of the winning numbers are included in the wheel. Still other systems guarantee 4 or 5 number wins if 5 or 6 numbers are in the wheel. If you are playing a pick-7 game with a king number, then you must have matched 4 numbers in addition to your king number for the win guarantees. N - Check for winning tickets. When you predict the next drawing with LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL, a file is created on your disk called PICKS.LM . This file contains all the combinations produced by LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL. You may compare the numbers in the drawing against the combinations in PICKS.LM to determine how many winning tickets you hold. You will be asked for the winning numbers in the drawing. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL will then compare those numbers with the combinations that LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL wrote to the file PICKS.LM, and the number of combinations with 0, 1, 2 etc. matches will be reported. S - Save current parameters to disk. Use this option to save the contents of the Parameters screen and the Selection Criteria screen to a disk file. Later you can 'L'oad this file to eliminate the need to configure those screens for your lottery. When you select this option, you will be asked to provide the file name to save the parameters in. Use the standard DOS file name conventions (1-8 character file name followed by 1-3 character extension i.e. 'param1.dat' ). You may save several configurations by specifying different names for each of the lotteries you play. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 11 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── L - Load parameters from disk file. Use this option to load parameters that you previously 'S'aved with the 'S'ave option. You will be asked to supply the name of the file to load. If you do not specify a file name, or if the file cannot be read, no parameters will be affected. Q - Quit. Returns you to DOS. ESCape also returns you DOS. NUMBER BALANCING. Many LOTTO players believe that using 'balanced' number sets produces more winning combinations in the drawings. The mathematics of this is very simple. The numbers in each drawing are added together, producing a sum. In a 6/40 LOTTO the mean (average) of these sums should be around 123. Most of the drawings in the game should fall very close to this number, theoretically. In fact, the majority of drawings will produce a sum which falls within a given range around this sum, which I will call the 'BALANCE RANGE'. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL reports the balance range for the game being analyzed in the 'Select Criteria' screen. The balance range is computed from the parameters on the 'Set Parameters' screen. Note that the balance information is computed for the numbers you pick, not counting any bonus numbers. In other words, if your lottery is a pick-6 with a bonus number, the balance range will apply to combinations of 6 numbers in the 'Predict' screen, but the sum of the drawings will probably be higher than the balance range, because the bonus number is added in. Payoff guarantees for the normal wheel control files. If you do not choose to use one of the 'standard systems', the normal wheel control files are used to combine your wheel numbers into combinations for you to play. These control files have minimum win guarantees based on ALL the numbers in the drawing being part of your wheel. You will notice that wheel control files are included for 3,4,5,6, and 7 number games. LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL only supports pick-5, 6, and 7 games. The 3 and 4 number wheels are used when special numbers are played in every game (King and Queen numbers). For instance, if you play a pick-5 game with one special number played every game, and wheel 10 numbers : your 10 numbers will be wheeled LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 12 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── in sets of 4, and your KING number added to each set to produce your bet. That is the reason for including wheel control files for 3 and 4 number combinations. Refer to the following chart to see which wheel control file is used for various combinations : No special numbers King King and Queen ------------------ ------------ -------------- Pick-5 | 5wheel**.bin 4wheel**.bin 3wheel**.bin Pick-6 | 6wheel**.bin 5wheel**.bin 4wheel**.bin Pick-7 | 7wheel**.bin 6wheel**.bin 5wheel**.bin Remember - the possibility of winning any prize, including the jackpot, is always present. These minimum win guarantees are just that - the minimum you could win if all the numbers in the drawing are included in your wheel. This listing is set up to show the minimum number of sets you must play to guarantee at least one match-3, match-4, match-5 or match- 6 prize (depending on whether you wheel 5,6, or 7 numbers. Wheel control file for 8 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 56 Match 3 : 2 Match 4 : 8 Wheel control file for 9 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 126 Match 3 : 2 Match 4 : 16 Wheel control file for 10 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 252 Match 3 : 2 Match 4 : 24 Wheel control file for 11 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 462 Match 3 : 5 Match 4 : 38 Wheel control file for 12 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 792 Match 3 : 8 Match 4 : 59 Wheel control file for 13 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 1287 Match 3 : 12 Match 4 : 89 Wheel control file for 14 numbers for pick-5 LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 13 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Total possible conbinations : 2002 Match 3 : 17 Match 4 : 127 Wheel control file for 15 numbers for pick-5 Total possible conbinations : 3003 Match 3 : 17 Match 4 : 169 Wheel control file for 8 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 28 Match 4 : 2 Match 5 : 4 Wheel control file for 9 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 84 Match 4 : 3 Match 5 : 10 Wheel control file for 10 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 210 Match 4 : 3 Match 5 : 21 Wheel control file for 11 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 462 Match 4 : 5 Match 5 : 36 Wheel control file for 12 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 924 Match 4 : 6 Match 5 : 66 Wheel control file for 13 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 1716 Match 4 : 14 Match 5 : 112 Wheel control file for 14 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 3003 Match 4 : 20 Match 5 : 179 Wheel control file for 15 numbers for pick-6 Total possible conbinations : 5005 Match 4 : 31 Match 5 : 322 Wheel control file for 8 numbers for pick-7 LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 14 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Total possible conbinations : 8 Match 5 : 2 Match 6 : 2 Wheel control file for 9 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 36 Match 5 : 2 Match 6 : 4 Wheel control file for 10 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 120 Match 5 : 3 Match 6 : 14 Wheel control file for 11 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 330 Match 5 : 3 Match 6 : 24 Wheel control file for 12 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 792 Match 5 : 8 Match 6 : 58 Wheel control file for 13 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 1716 Match 5 : 13 Match 6 : 117 Wheel control file for 14 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 3432 Match 5 : 20 Match 6 : 202 Wheel control file for 15 numbers for pick-7 Total possible conbinations : 6435 Match 5 : 43 Match 6 : 404 LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 15 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Appendix : Number of combinations for various wheel systems Pick-5 Pick-6 Pick-7 N 8 : 56 28 8 U 9 : 126 84 36 M 10 : 252 210 120 B 11 : 462 462 330 E 12 : 792 924 792 R 13 : 1287 1716 1716 S 14 : 2002 3003 3432 15 : 3003 5005 6435 I 16 : 4368 8008 11440 N 17 : 6188 12376 19448 18 : 8568 18564 31824 W 19 : 11628 27132 50388 W 20 : 15504 38760 77520 E 21 : 20349 54264 116280 E 22 : 26334 74613 170544 L 23 : 33649 100947 245157 24 : 42504 134596 346104 25 : 53130 177100 480700 To read the chart - determine the type of lotto to be played, then read down that list until you find the line for the numbers in your wheel. The chart shows that wheeling 12 numbers in a Pick-6 Lotto would generate 924 different combinations to be played. The formula for calculating the number of combinations is : A! -------- B! * (A-B)! Where A is how many numbers are in the wheel, and B is how many numbers are played in the game. The '!' means the FACTORIAL of the number (4! = 4*3*2*1 ). Incidentally - this same formula may be used to calculate the odds in a standard Lotto game by substituting the highest number in the lotto for B (B becomes 40 in a 6-40 Lotto). LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 16 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Appendix : LOTTO MAGIC LOTTO MAGIC is a computer program which tracks the drawings for a lottery, providing historical information and predicting which numbers are likely to be drawn in the next drawing. LOTTO MAGIC was written with a specific purpose in mind - to beat the state lotteries. It can lower the odds against you in any lotto game in the world. Completely flexible and configurable, it adapts easily to 6/36 6/40 6/49 7/44 or any other lotto game definition available. There are no guarantees that you will win your lottery with this program, or with any other system, but exhaustive testing and realistic simulations have proven a 200% to 800% increase in winnings using LOTTO MAGIC. Using LOTTO MAGIC, you will maintain a database of all the drawings in your lottery. LOTTO MAGIC can break down the lottery to show you which numbers are drawn most frequently in a given month, which numbers are currently 'hot' numbers, which ones are due to be drawn based on statistical analysis, and the cycles or trends that the numbers tend to follow, and much, much more. By assigning weights to each number in the drawing, LOTTO MAGIC will predict which numbers are likely to be chosen in the next drawing. You have complete control over how the weighting is done, and can override LOTTO MAGIC's weight assignments to favor your own personal 'special' numbers. You can also specify 'personal favorites' which automatically receive extra weighting when predicting the next drawing. For your part, you must maintain the database by adding new entries as the drawings are held. The statistical analysis used by LOTTO MAGIC requires complete and accurate data, especially the most recent data. When you check the lotto drawings to see how much you have won, enter the information in LOTTO MAGIC, so that the next predictions can be as accurate as possible. LOTTO MAGIC can track the data for many lotteries simultaneously. Data is stored on disk files. By specifying the data file you wish to use, you can run LOTTO MAGIC for as many lottery games as you like. Hardware and Software requirements. LOTTO MAGIC will run on any IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible with monochrome, CGA, EGA or VGA graphics adapter. At least 256K of RAM is needed. Also, you must be running version 2.0 DOS, or later. A hard disk is recommended, but not necessary. A printer LOTTO MAGIC WHEEL User Guide Page 17 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── is optional.