How Monitors Work: Save a Number, Follow the Draws
A monitor is a number you save in your account. From the moment you save it, LotteryTeller checks it against the confirmed result of every draw that comes after, for the games and draw times you choose, and lists each match on your numbers page with the draw and its date.
What a monitor watches
A monitor has a number, a game, one or more draw times, and a way to match: Straight (exact order), Box (any order) or both. Box is offered only where the game's rules allow it.
Only verified results count. A draw whose result we have not confirmed is never checked.
Draws that already happened
A monitor starts when you save it. A draw scheduled before that moment is not matched, even if its result is published later, so saving a number never produces a match for the past.
To see whether a number came up before, use search: it looks through the verified history in exact order or in any order.
Corrections and cancellations
If a lottery corrects a published result, your monitors are checked again against the corrected number: a match from the old number is replaced, and a new one can appear. The draw's page shows the correction.
If a draw is cancelled, its matches are removed (and come back if the draw is reinstated).
Where your settings live
Your account has a settings page for your language, your time zone, your theme, your password and the account itself. If other ways to hear about a match are available to you, each one has its own page in your account, with its own consent and switch. You can change them at any time.
You can pause, edit or delete a monitor whenever you like.
What a monitor does not do
A match says that a confirmed result had your number. It says nothing about future draws: every draw is independent.
Check a number against past results
Save a number and we check it against each confirmed result from the draws after it.
Save a numberHow monitors work questions
Does a monitor look at past draws?
No. It checks draws scheduled after you save it. To look through the past, use search.
Which results does a monitor check?
Verified results only, for the game and draw times you chose.
What happens if a result is corrected?
We check your monitors again against the corrected number. A match from the old number is replaced, and a new one can appear.
Can I use exact order and any order together?
Yes. Choose both (Straight or box, in the form). A draw that matches both is listed once, with both classifications.
More game guides
- Pick 2Two digits, from 00 to 99. In Puerto Rico it's Pega 2.
- Pick 3Three digits, from 000 to 999. You'll also see it as Cash 3, Daily 3, Play 3 or Numbers.
- Pick 4Four digits, from 0000 to 9999. It also goes by Win 4, Cash 4, Daily 4 or Play 4.
- Pick 5Five digits, from 00000 to 99999. Some lotteries name it Georgia 5, Play 5 or DC-5.
- Cash PopChoose numbers from 1 to 15. One is drawn each time, and each number has a 1 in 15 chance.
- Straight or boxExact order or any order: what each way of matching means.
- Odds and randomnessWhere the odds come from, why draws are independent, and what a count means.
- Lottery strategyWhat a strategy can change in a Pick game, and what no system can.
- GlossaryStraight, box, combo, Fireball and other Pick terms, each in a line or two.
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