Lotto

An application that imitates weekly lottery and calculates how many years it takes to win a jackpot.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Motivation
• Technologies
• Install
• Features
• The concepts of lottery

Introduction

LottoMachine has three optional types of lotto, with different rate of probability. The lottery runs till jackpot is reached in a lifetime (120 years).

Motivation

This application was build as a training project for course in Tampere University of Applied Sciences ( or Polytechnic, if you will).

Technologies

Project is created with:

• Java 8.0
• Visual Studio Code 1.39

Install

• Clone or download the repo
• In command-line:
  • navigate inside the directory and then \lotto\src\fi\tuni\tamk\tiko\salter\
  • compile with command javac Main.java
    

Run:

• In command-line with command java Main

Features

• Three different types of lottery
• Option to insert user's lotto row
  • straight from command-line or
  • within application
• Keeps count of first appearances of each amount of right numbers e.g. Got 2 right! Took 0 years
• Optional print out for weekly row(s) and statistics
• When jackpot is reach, prints out the game statistics
• Shows how frustratingly unlikely it is to hit the jackpot in one lifetime!

The concepts of lottery

Some main concepts in this application:

lottoType

• regular
  Number pool's range: 1 - 40
  Lotto row's length: 7

• bigWin
  Number pool's range: 1 - 80
  Lotto row's length: 9

• testRun
  Number pool's range: 1 - 15
  Lotto row's length: 5

numberPool

Pool of numbers where the correct row is drawn from.
default starting int = 1

userRow

The lotto row user chooses for himself.

lottoRow

The lotto row that lottoMachine draws.