Playslip Pal Info

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What Is It?

Only the most exciting and useful new lottery program in many years! If you've been waiting and hoping for a program to print your lottery selection slips quickly and accurately...your search is over. There have been several programs available over the years that will print your slips...but not from a simple text file.

Playslip Pal does exactly that...and it works with any modern Windows printer. That's just the beginning.

FEATURES

• Support for almost any Pick5 or Pick6 lottery (including Canadian Super7)
• Works with any inkjet, bubble-jet or laser printer
• Reads numbers from any simple text file in a variety of formats
• Built-in slip definition generator
• *Extra Bonus* built-in results checker
• Includes many pre-defined slip layouts for the most popular games
• Clean and simple user interface
• Very fast performance
• Help file included
• Evaluation version is fully functional for 30 days
• Updates and bug-fixes will be free of course
• Only $US29.95 to purchase

Screenshots (Click to view full size)

The thumbnails below represent (from left to right) the main program screen, the slip definition screen and the results checker screen. A click will show the full size graphic in a new browser window.

Requirements

Basic

• a PC running Win95 through WinXP
• a Pentium or better processor (faster is better of course)
• at least 16mb RAM (more is better of course)
• an inkjet, bubble-jet or laser printer (daisy-wheel or dot-matrix will be useless)
• a means of generating a text file that contains your numbers (your choice)

Limitations

Playslip Pal is intended to ultimately be a truly universal printing utility for virtually any kind of lottery game. This initial release of the program covers quite a lot of that ground, but there are some important limitations to be aware of. Most of these limitations are imposed by the nature of the game itself or by the way certain lottery selection slips are designed or laid out. Examine the following carefully to see if Playslip Pal is going to work for your favourite game.

Supported Lottery Games

This version will ONLY work for almost any pick5 or pick6 game in the world and also the Super7 game played in Canada. This includes Powerball type games with the provision noted under "Special Cases" below. A list of game slips included with the program is on the support page. Anything else may or may not be supported in future releases.

Supported Slip Layouts

The program will work fine for the vast majority of selection slips in use around the world today. However, research shows that some slips are designed in very oddball or peculiar ways. These slips are very difficult to deal with from a programming viewpoint. Work will continue on these, but for the time being, certain slip layouts are disqualified for use with Playslip Pal. If either of the following features are true, then the printing won't work properly:

• Any slip where the rows of number boxes have a leading offset or indentation from the other rows. Luckily, there are very few of these. A trailing offset is fine.
• Any slip where the selection panels are grouped in 2's or 3's and have variable spacing between them. The selection panels need to be separate from each other and consistently spaced. Again, there are very few of these.

Special Cases

Some of the biggest and most popular lotteries in the world are the ones where the player selects an additional number that is usually called a "Powerball" or "Megaball" or some such. This is very different from the more common "bonus" number that the player doesn't select directly. These slips always have an additional selection panel to the side or below the panel where the main numbers are selected.

This version of the program will work fine for these games with the provision that it will only print your selected main numbers (usually 5). The extra number must be marked by hand. If you can accept this temporary limitation, then the program will work perfectly well. A future release will support these games fully.

Another special case is the type of slip where the player must fill in the slip in multiples of 2 choices that are usually stacked one above the other. In a case like this, you need to be playing enough picks to fill in the slip entirely. So if the slip has a total of 10 selection panels, you should only feed it a file that contains lines that are some multiple of 10. Any extra picks that are less than 10 would need to be marked by hand. The NY 6/59 slip fits this description.

Unfortunately, some lottery commissions in the true spirit of meanness will not accept selection slips that have been mechanically printed. The Texas 6/54 lottery explicitly states this right on the slip and no doubt there are others in the world with such draconian policies. They should be ashamed of themselves. 'nuff said.

What It Does And Doesn't Print

The program prints marks on the number selection boxes only. It does not print marks in the myriad of other checkboxes on the slip such as payment options, repeat play, advance play or any other options. There are just too many variations to deal with. You will still need to mark these options by hand but the vast bulk of the work has already been done.

Who Needs This Program?

Any serious lottery player that regularly plays more than just a few picks at a time. If you are fed up with the time-consuming and tedious task of marking dozens or even hundreds of slips by hand, then this program is a must have. It will be especially useful to syndicates or groups of players that may play a thousand or more picks at a time. Not only will Playslip Pal print your selections effortlessly and quickly...keep in mind that it also prints the numbers accurately, with no chance of mistakes brought on by user inattention or fatigue.

The results checker, included as a bonus, is a great little program in itself. All you have to do is punch in the results of the draw and you will see exactly how many winners and losers you have very rapidly. No more checking each ticket by hand or waiting till the next day to have them scanned by your retailer. Winner or loser, it's nice to know now.

Support Page

Be sure to check out this page periodically for news, hints & tips or product updates.

User Forum

A web forum has been set up for the Playslip Pal user community. Check it out with the link below.

Spread The Word

A lot of lottery players are looking for a program such as this and would appreciate knowing about it. Please spread the word to friends and family. Thank you.

DownloadS

If the above information describes the program that you need and have been searching for, you may download the program for a free 30-day evaluation. This is the full program and it is not crippled in any way.

Click below to download install_ppal.zip (2,130,632 bytes)

Download Playslip Pal from Winsite.com

Please be sure to visit the support page after downloading for important announcements, updates and other information about this software.