Randomly picks lottery numbers for the Euromillions
Created to help my partner on their programming journey.
Just gives you some random numbers:
$ cargo run --bin lucky-dip
Compiling lottery-picker v0.1.0 (/Users/danielmason/projects/lottery-picker)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4.68s
Running `target/debug/lucky-dip`
Numbers: [2, 12, 21, 34, 52]
Bonus: [2, 7]Lets you provide a list of numbers that have recently won (this doesn't improve your chances at all but what the hey 😅):
$ cargo run --bin from-pool -- --numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 --lucky 1,2,3
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.48s
Running `target/debug/from-pool --numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 --lucky 1,2,3`
Numbers: [3, 6, 7, 8, 10]
Bonus: [1, 2]Uses a pool of only numbers that appeared in the last six months.
$ cargo run --bin from-recent-wins
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.29s
Running `target/debug/from-recent-wins`
Numbers: [1, 6, 7, 20, 48]
Bonus: [7, 11]By default, from-recent-wins is biased by how many times a given number appeared over the last 6 months, if you don't
want this bias, use --dedupe
cargo run --bin from-recent-wins -- --dedupe
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.81s
Running `target/debug/from-recent-wins --dedupe`
Numbers: [8, 31, 35, 43, 44]
Bonus: [6, 8]Note 1: It would be best practice to gate dependencies with features, but it makes running the examples more work and this is just supposed to be a small teaching example.
Note 2: If you happen to use this yourself and win, I'm happy for you, you do not owe me anything, its literally random, I am not magic 😅.