A simple console program written in Java that simulates playing the lottery. Made for a programming course in the Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

The program keeps generating a group of random numbers until they all match the numbers the user chose. The program calculates how many years it took for the player to win the jackpot and keeps running until the player wins in the lifetime of a human (<=120 years), which is very unlikely to happen.

For simplicity, bonus numbers are not used.

• javac .\fi\tuni\tamk\tiko\malmbergtapio\util\*.java
• javac .\fi\tuni\tamk\tiko\malmbergtapio\*.java
• java fi/tuni/tamk/tiko/malmbergtapio/LottoApp

The lottery numbers can be given as command line parameters:

java fi/tuni/tamk/tiko/malmbergtapio/LottoApp 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

The program reads the types of lotteries available from the file LottoSettings.txt.

The file format is:

lottery name;largest number;how many numbers are drawn

• Command line parameter for selecting the lottery type