OpenWheel Files

This program can generate wheels to play loto like games. It can also handle wheels for keno like games or loto games where you can can play with more balls than the pick.

The dialog is the following :
OpenWheel.exe

                    OpenWheel V4.2f

-- Copyright 1999-2016. pclottery@hotmail.com --

Number of pick for your game (m)[3..12] : 5                             << You play a pick 5 games            
How many balls in your game (v)[6..99] : 27                             << With 27 balls
With how many balls do you want to play (k)[5..12] : 9                  << And you make your bets with 9 balls
Level of warranty for your wheel (t)[2..5] : 3                          << You want a warranty a 3
How many grids you intend to play (l)[1..] : 10                         << You will play 10 grids
Covering target percentage for the wheel (p)[1%..95%]:                  << and the covering percentage will be 95% 
How many threads to use for the wheel generation (x)[1..7] : 3          << Number of threads (max: number of core – 1)
Output filename (o)(Return for NONE) :                                  << no output file
There are 80730 combinations of 5 to cover.
There are 4686825 combinations of 9 to test to generate a single line of the wheel.
Memory: 3:11700+4:35100+5:10092 bytes.


System for a pick5 game with 27 balls.
You play with 9 balls and the warranty is for 3 in 5.
The generation of the wheel STOPS when :
  - 10 grids where generated,
  - or 95% of the possibles cases were covered.

The generation will use 3 CPU thread(s)

You need 1 GigaBytes of memory.

If you agree enter a big Y (n/Y)? Y                                    << Confirm with a  big Y else the program exit
Combinations to cancel (i). Enter :                                    << and if you want to “eliminate” some combination you can enter then of give a file
  Return for NONE; '-' for stdin; a csv or txt filename :
Nothing removed.
<< the the program generate the will


  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 |          1 :      65484 : 81.115 / 18.885              << wheel with grids of 9 numbers, the indice of the grid, the number of combinations covered
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 |          2 :      50238 : 62.230 / 37.770               << with the warranty and the ratios of free combination/combinations covered
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 |          3 :      34992 : 43.344 / 56.656
  1  2  3 10 11 12 19 20 21 |          4 :      28107 : 34.816 / 65.184
  4  5  6 13 14 15 22 23 24 |          5 :      21222 : 26.288 / 73.712
  7  8  9 16 17 18 25 26 27 |          6 :      14337 : 17.759 / 82.241
  7  8  9 13 14 15 19 20 21 |          7 :      11097 : 13.746 / 86.254
  1  2  3 16 17 18 22 23 24 |          8 :       7857 :  9.732 / 90.268
  4  5  6 10 11 12 25 26 27 |          9 :       4617 :  5.719 / 94.281
  4  5  6 16 17 18 19 20 21 |         10 :       3078 :  3.813 / 96.187
Terminated. Run lasts 4 seconds for 10 lines

You can specify the parameters between '()' on the command line by appending a '-' before the parameter :
example :
OpenWheel.exe -V 49 -M 6 -K 6 -T 3 -L 99 -X 3 -P 80
Missing parameters are queried at startup.