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Lottery Simulator (2023)
Interactively explore Mega Millions, Powerball, and other lottery probabilities by simulating thousands of tickets in seconds.
It's pretty easy to intuit that the odds of winning the jackpot are really low (understatement! While major lotteries publish some of this information, I wanted to build something that would make it easier to play around with the data in a more exploratory way. The Simulation section lets you pick some numbers and play up to thousands of tickets per second, and visualizes the returns for you.
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