Main Window Database List - Introduction to The Powerball & Mega Millions Database
This is the lottery Database window. This will contain the Database of Powerball or Mega Millions, depending on which game you have loaded to play. You can delete numbers here by right-clicking on the top number and selecting delete. You can only delete one number at a time and it will always have to be the top number. If you "left"-click on any other number anywhere in the list. An average line of numbers is generated from the point you clicked to the top, or current drawing.
Read about generating Average numbers from each column here.
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Changing Games From Powerball to Mega Millions & Vise-Versa
Just above the Database list box is this button. Shown here it says "Mega Millions Loaded (Click for Powerball)" If you click this button, Powerball will be loaded up and this button will change to say "Powerball Loaded (Click for Mega Millions)". If you click it again, Mega Millions will be loaded back again. This is just a quick way to switch back and forth between the two games. You can also change games by going to the "Lottery" menu > "Select Game". Another quick way to change the game is by using your function keys. i.e. F7 will switch you to Powerball and F8 will switch you to Mega Millions.
This section in red gives you the option of changing the Background color (B) and Text color (Foreground color (F)) of the Database box.
Located here (at the bottom) under the Database list box is the "Date Range Loader".
You may load any date-range you like to base your calculations. Just enter the two dates you want to use, and press "Get Range". Only those dates will remain in the Database window.
You can also use your mouse and click on the dates from within the list in the window. Click the two dates from which you would like the range. Those two dates will appear in the Date-Range Loaded section where you just need to press "Get Range". If you do not press the "Get Range" in just a few seconds, the dates will be cleared automatically. The range you load is not a permanent selection. The next time you restart The Lottery Picker™ 2024 the full Database will be loaded. You can also reload the full database by clicking the "Reset" button.
NOTE: You can always tell when a partial Database is loaded by looking at
the indicator icon in the lower right of the Main Window in the status bar beside the displayed date range which is loaded. The icon is RED 
if you have a partial database loaded and a white circle 
if you have the FULL database loaded. This provides a visual clue for quick reference.
This GREEN circle
here located just to the upper LEFT of the Main Window is an important indicator. Sometimes it might be RED 
, and sometimes it might be GREEN as shown.
If you click that settings button you will find options to change this behavior and why it changes from green to red.
Let me try to explain; you are able to load and use the entire lottery database dating all the way back to 1997 for Powerball or 1996 for Mega-Millions. However, every once in a while the lottery associations would change the ball matrix. Lowering or raising the ball matrix can make some drawings in the database undesirable for some users. Let's say the highest white ball you could use first went up to 88. Then they changed the matrix and now the highest white ball you can choose is 75. Some people would no longer want to use the numbers between 76-88 when selecting numbers based on past draw number algorithms. Yet some would...
In the settings, you can choose to exclude past drawings that no longer fit in the current ball matrix of the current game you have loaded.
If you have chosen to exclude numbers which are now no longer in the current matrix, the icon will be GREEN:
If you have chosen to load all numbers no mater of they fit the current ball matrix or not, the indicator is RED: The RED is just a visual reminder.
This is the relevant setting talked about above after clicking the Settings button:
