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A program or website that takes public data of unclaimed lottery tickets and reports likelihood of ticket types based on remaining ticket quantities #98

Open PotatoGunship opened 6 years ago

PotatoGunship commented 6 years ago

Project description

There are already state-run websites that list different tickets and quantities of unclaimed tickets. I live in Minnesota, this is my states: https://www.mnlottery.com/games/unclaimed_prizes/

A program could take this data and give you an adjusted probability of winning a specific style of ticket (mostly applicable to scratch-offs) It could determine the most likely ticket style to purchase at that time.

Relevant Technology

Any sort of web scraping language such as:

safth commented 6 years ago

The problem is that the total number of ticket bought is unknown.