Lottery guides
Short, plain guides to how Pick games work. Every odds figure on these pages is worked out from the game's digits, and none of them makes one number more likely than another.
How the games work
The basics of a Pick game: how many digits are drawn and what straight and box mean.
Odds and randomness
Where the odds come from, and what a strategy can and cannot change.
Using the tools
The odds calculator and how monitors work, plus the tools for searching past results, checking digit frequency and making random numbers.
Open a tool
Odds calculator
Type any Pick 2 to Pick 5 number to see its straight and box odds, how many orders match and how many plays a combo takes.
Quick pick
A lottery number generator that makes random Pick numbers in your browser, with the method written on the page. Your numbers are not stored or sent anywhere unless you choose to save one.
Number frequency
How often each digit, and each exact number, came up in a window of verified lottery draws, with the sample size and what is missing.
Check your numbers
Check your lottery numbers against verified past Pick 2 to Pick 5 draws, in exact order or any order, and see the dates they came up.