You can request for a copy of the template by filling in the form below and we will have the worksheet send to you right away after you confirm your email address. The template also matches the TOTO draw number and the date to make sure that the tickets are matching to the right set of winning numbers. Using the above table as a guide, Chua has set up the template to show all the winning prize groups to help her calculate her winnings. It is possible for the ticket to win more than one prize group. So the purple colour will identify which prize group s the holder of the ticket is entitled to. To win money in the lottery, at least 4 numbers from the ticket must match one of the 7 winning numbers including the additional number. If the number is the additional number drawn, the cell will turn purple. Upon detecting a winning set of numbers, the user could see which group or groups he has won but has to refer to the website winning calculator to view his total winning value. I stopped at showing the winning groups for the varied system types with no amount available. No winning will show for different draw no. The user has to key in the draw no,date and winning numbers at the top for matching the winning tickets if any in the data list.Įxcel will match the winning numbers together with the draw no. If user has many sets of numbers, it would be very tedious or time consuming. I noticed the website has a prize calculator to allow user to input their winning numbers which then the system would calculate their total winnings. Thus, I have to check the winning numbers from the Toto Website. Here is the reason why she created the template. I am sharing it with you all not because I support gambling, but because the template demonstrated that the use of Excel is not limited to business. Excel Book Excerpts.Īll rights reserved.I have an interesting Excel based lottery template from my friend, Chua. You can earn a commission for sales leads that you send to us by joining our affiliate program. Any affiliate commissions that we earn when you click a link to Amazon or other sites is reinvested in keeping MrExcel. How to Create a Lottery Spreadsheet in Excel The Formulas, Functions and Visual Basic procedures on this web site are provided "as is" and we do not guarantee that they can be used in all situations. As you can see, lotteries are a tax on people who can't use Excel. Here are the calculations for Mega Millions and PowerBall lotteries. Multiply the combinations from the first drawing with the combinations from the second drawing. This means you have to win two drawings to win the jackpot. These require the player to match five numbers from one pool of numbers and then one number from a separate pool of numbers. If you had a game in which you had to match both the numbers and the order in which they were drawn, you would want to use the PERMUT function to find the number of permutations of drawing 6 numbers in sequence out of Additional Details: Since the first edition of this book, two multi-state lotteries have become popular in the United States. Here, the sequence in which the balls are drawn is not relevant. This payoff is only slightly in your favor. If your state lottery game requires you to select 6 numbers out of 40, then the odds against you winning are 3.įor a game with 44 numbers, the odds are 7 million to 1. You can use the COMBIN function as follows to figure out the number of possible combinations for games in which you choose 6 of 40, 44, 48, and so on numbers. You need to figure out the number of possible combinations in the game. Strategy: It depends on how many numbers are in the game. If you like this topic, please consider buying the entire e-book.
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