                       
                        ABOUT BEST BET LOTTERY SOFTWARE                      
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  The Best Bet(tm) Lottery Software was designed by Lottery players for     
 Lottery players.  We strive to provide the most useful features possible
 while keeping our costs low and the program affordable for you.  Your      
 input and suggestions for improving the program are important to us.
 BEST BET was originally developed for the Texas Lotto, a pick 6 lottery.
 Since then, we received numerous requests for supporting other states'
 lottery drawings.  Now BEST BET supports most common lotteries across the
 U.S.A. and is capable of supporting lottery games around the globe via
 its custom game definition feature.
                                                                             
   No computer program can reliably predict the future outcome of a          
 mathematically unpredictable lottery drawing.  Best Bet is designed to   
 assist you in making more intelligent choices.  By providing its various    
 functions, Best Bet Lottery Software gives you more information to use in    
 choosing lottery numbers, analyze past winning results, "wheel" numbers
 and play the lottery.  Or perhaps you are just starting out and would
 like to learn more about the lottery and how to play it before actually
 playing it.  Best Bet can assist you in becoming more knowledgable about
 the lottery and how it is played.


                    About BEST BET's Random Number Selection

   The actual lottery drawings consist of a lottery machine which contains
 fifty or so ping-pong size balls (depending on your state).  The balls are
 swept around inside the machine with a combination of air and a mechanical
 arm device.  Numbers are randomly chosen when 6 of the balls are sucked
 down a tube which leads from the main chamber of the lottery machine and
 onto a presentation tray.

   Best Bet simulates the lottery machine in software by "shuffling" a set
 of simulated balls around inside the computer.  All the time Best Bet is
 running, it is shuffling 5 complete sets of simulated "ping-pong" balls.
 The balls are shuffled in a highly random pattern.  When you decide to
 select some lottery numbers, a simulated ping-pong ball is selected from
 the random pool of available balls.  Once a ball (number) is selected from
 one of the simulated lottery machines, it is no longer available to be
 selected again (just like the real machine).  When all six balls (numbers)
 have been chosen, that lottery machine is "reset" (like when all the balls
 are first dropped into the machine).  The machine then begins shuffling
 the simulated ping-pong balls again, until you decide to choose more
 lottery numbers.  Since there are 5 completely separate lottery machines
 being simulated, when you select a "playslip" (Plays A-E in Texas), you
 are selecting the random numbers from 5 different simulated lottery
 machines within the computer.


                         B E S T   B E T  Features:
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   Best Bet was designed to operate on the simplest monochrome IBM PC and    
 the most powerful 486 personal computers available today.  It is intended   
 to assist you in analyzing past lottery drawing results by providing you    
 with statistical analysis information about past lottery drawings.  It is   
 designed to assist you with the most important task of all, picking your    
 lottery numbers.  Best Bet supports the following key features:             
                                                                             
                                                                             
   * Select your Lottery Numbers by playboard or entire playslip             
         Your choice of number selection criteria:                           
           - Your lucky number(s)                                            
           - Control the range (min/max) of numbers (the "spread" or range)  
           - Most-frequent winning numbers                                   
           - Least-frequent winning numbers                                  
           - Random number selection                                         
                                                                             
   * SMART-WHEEL Wheel Generator                                             
           - Create "wheels" of number combinations from 7 to 50 numbers     
           - You select numbers or computer will select them with you         
                                                                             
   * Analyze past winning Lottery Drawings
           - All or most recent winning drawings                             
           - Calculates statistics:  Averages, Spreads, Gaps, Deviation,     
                                     Odd vs. Even numbers and more.          
           - Number of times each number has Hit on a winning drawing        
           - Number of drawings since each number has Hit                    
           - Enter new drawings as they occur to update drawing database     

   * SMART-FILTER(tm) Statistical Filter
           - BEST BET contains prior drawing information (if you keep it
             up-to-date with drawing information).  One of the problems
             with any number picking system is that it usually will pick
             numbers that are not statistically "normal" for random
             numbers.  While it is true that random numbers allow for any
             series of numbers to be picked, in practice lottery drawings
             do seem to follow some short-lived patterns.  Additionally,
             lottery drawing random numbers tend to be "evenly distributed"
             more often than not.  Not always, but more often than not...
             Since more often than not is better than "completely unknown",
             if we can "play the odds" in our favor by using statistical
             measures that tend to occur more frequently, we increase our
             chances of winning (if we play regularly).  Well, everyone has
             their own beliefs about lottery numbers and how (un)predictable
             they are, so suffice it to say that we statistical filters are
             supported by BEST BET.

             The statistical filter eliminates "bogus" number combinations,
             that is, sequences of numbers which are outside of the filter's
             "pass band".  The filter is "tuned" to accept certain kinds
             of number sequences and reject others.  For example, let's look
             at a typical "pick 6" lotto.  It is common to have 3 odd and
             3 even numbers in a pick 6 lotto.  It is (less) common to see
             2 even / 4 odd and to see 4 even / 2 odd combinations.  It is
             rare to see 5 / 1 ratios of odd/even or even/odd.  It is very
             rate to ever see 6 / 0 combinations.  Therefore, our SMART-
             FILTER can be tuned to odd and even numbers.  You can choose
             how many "even" numbers to allow to "pass through" the filter.

             For example, if you selected "3 even" numbers for the filter
             setting, only combinations of 6 numbers which were half odd
             and half even would be selected; example:  1-3-7-20-30-32.
             The SMART-FILTER will eliminate all number sequences which
             do not meet this even number "criteria".

             The following SMART-FILTER tuning criteria are supported:

               * Spread range
               * Average 
               * Standard Deviation
               * Even Number Count
               * Gap Average
               * Cumulative Average

             For more detailed information about SMART-FILTER and how it
             can be used, see the help information elsewhere in BEST BET
             (such as in the About BEST BET menu, for example).

   * Game Selection

    BEST BET now supports virtually any lottery game. Most lotteries in the
    USA are supported.  Other games can be custom defined to BEST BET, so
    most any lottery game can be added to BEST BET.

    If you like to play more than a single lottery, you can readily switch
    back and forth between your favorite lottery games with BEST BET.

                                                    
   * Preferences                                              
           - Common game parameters are configurable to save you time and    
             allow you to customize the program's abilities to meet your     
             desired playing strategy.  For example, you can also set the    
             program's colors to your liking.                                
                                                                             
   * On-line Help                                                            
           - Provides you with quick information about how to use the game   
             and saves you time (to play the Lottery and enjoy the other     
             pursuits of life you choose).                                   
                                                                             
  We hope you enjoy your Best Bet Lottery software.  If we can assist you by  
  incorporating features into Best Bet that you would like to see, please    
  write us today.  We prefer written suggestions to assist us with tracking
  suggestions.  Your suggestions are important to us.  Thank you in advance  
  for your contributions to making Best Bet even better.                     
                                                                             
  Thank You for choosing Best Bet!  We appreciate your business.  Look for   
  updated versions of Best Bet in the future.  Please fill out your software 
  Registration form and mail it to us so we can keep you up-to-date on the   
  latest developments of Best Bet.   Thank you again.                        
                                                                             
  LOTTO SOFTWARE, LTD.                                                               
                                                                             

    OF COURSE, IF YOU DO USE BEST BET LOTTERY SOFTWARE AND WIN, WE WOULD     
    LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT IT!
                                                                             
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    Houston, Texas  77040
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