Many players who are familiar with lotto systems/wheels, and are willing to play one, are facing the tasks of substituting their numbers instead of the numbers of the system, and later checking their combinations against the drawn numbers. These are tasks that become increasingly cumbersome with the increase of number of combinations.
This site offers the convenience of choosing a lotto system/wheel from Dr. Bluskov's pick-5 and pick-6 books (and more!), generating the system with your own numbers substituted, checking more information about the system such as Table of Possible Wins, author's comments on particular features of the system and possibly comparison with other systems in the book, and balance of the system. Once you generate your tickets and play the system, you can check your combinations after the draw against the drawn numbers, and see all of your winning tickets with the corresponding wins.
This site provides convenience for players who already have one of Dr. Bluskov's books, but also to players who are familiar with wheeling systems and want to play one from the very wide selection offered here. If you are a player who is not familiar with lotto systems, you can check the introductions to Dr. Bluskov's pick-5 and pick-6 books at the publisher site; there you can find links back to this site, and generate your tickets here.
Once the combinations are generated, one still has to enter these combinations on the actual slips provided by the lottery, which is yet another, somewhat cumbersome operation. For many lotteries, additional convenience is offered with actually printing your combinations on the lottery slips; check iHaveLotto.com for a list of lotteries for which this service is available. Note that the printing service is also available for players who bring their own file with a system from other books or sources. The printing service is available even for players who do not use a system, but have too many tickets to fill by hand, as long as they have their combinations in a text file. For players who have already produced their combinations at this site, there is an option here to save a text file with their combinations and use it for printing at iHaveLotto.com
Note that there is a small fee associated with each of these services. Using the services for the few systems with less than 5 combinations does not make much sense (Pick-5, system #11; and Pick-6, systems #8, #30, #46, and #63), these are easily done "by hand"; we chose to keep them included here for uniformity.
You can check an example on how the guarantee and the table of wins of a pick-5 system work, and a similar one of a pick-6 system. You can also check the performance of the system if you hit anywhere between 2 and 5 of the five numbers in the main draw (for pick-5) and between 3 and 6 of the 6 numbers in the main draw (for pick-6), and find out the number of wins in each case. You can also match what happens to a corresponding line in the Table of Wins. The same functionality will be provided with any system served at this site.
If you want to start using the site, all you need is to order one system, then click on the cart; there you will be asked to open an account (free, very fast, with very little information needed, just for bookkeeping). Then you can finish your order and start using the system(s). You only need to open an account once, to start the service. Once you have an account, the checkout is fast. If you have any question about the site operation and features, please contact us at lotbook@telus.net.
Here are the expanded lists of all systems/wheels from the new, 2020 editions of Dr. Bluskov's Pick-5 and Pick-6 books. Both lists were expanded by systems outside the books, systems that are only available at this companion site (check part IV in pick-5 and parts IV and V in pick-6).
