How to generate lottery numbers in excel?
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Have you ever thought of generating lottery numbers in Excel, or make a lottery number generator in Excel by yourself? In this article, I provide three methods for you to get it done easily.
Generate lottery numbers with Excel Functions (5 steps)
Generate lottery numbers with Kutools for Excel (2 steps)
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Generate lottery numbers with Excel Functions
This method will walk you through applying several Excel functions to generate lottery numbers. And you can do as follows:
1. In a blank worksheet, type column headers in Range A1:C1 as below screen shot shown:
2. Enter formulas in Column A, Column B, and Column C:
(1) In Cell A2, enter the formula =RAND(), and then drag the Fill handle to the range A2:A50.
(2) In Cell B2, enter the formula =RANK($A2,$A$2:$A$50)+COUNTIF(B$1:B1,B1)-1, and then drag the Fill Handle to the Range B2:B50. (In the formula, A2 is the random number left to current cell, $A$2:$A$50 are all random numbers we got with the first formula, B$1 is the first cell in Column B, and B1 is the cell above current cell).
(3) In Range C2:C50, enter sequence numbers from 1 to 49.
Then you will get a table as left screen shot shown:
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3. Find a blank range, type sequence numbers horizontally in a row as below screen shot shown:
4. Below the first sequence number of 1, enter the formula =VLOOKUP(G1,$B$1:$C$50,2,FALSE) into it, and the drag the Fill Handle to the Range you need.
Note: In this formula, G1 is the cell with the first sequence number of 1, $B$1:$C$50 are Unique Rank column and Ball Number column, 2 means find values in the second column of Range $B$1:$C$50.
Then you will get the lottery numbers as below screen shot shown:
5. It's optional. To prevent the lottery numbers from changing automatically when current worksheet refreshes, you can click the Formula > Calculation Options > Manual.
Generate lottery numbers with VBA Macro
This method will guide you to apply a VBA macro to generate lottery numbers in Excel. Please do as follows:
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module to open a new module window, and paste following VBA code into it:
VBA: Lottery Number Generator in Excel
3. Press the F5 key or click the Run button to run this VBA macro.
4. Now in the popping up dialog box, specify a cell to output the lottery numbers, and click the OK button.
Then you will see 6 unique lottery numbers are generated and displayed in the specified cells.
Generate lottery numbers with Kutools for Excel
If you have Kutools for Excel installed, its Insert Random Data utility can help you generate lottery numbers in Excel at once.
1. Select 6 adjacent cells, such as A1:F1, and then click the Kutools > Insert > Insert Random Data.
2. Now the Insert Random Data dialog box comes out. Go to the Integer tab, type 1 in From box, type 49 in To box, check the Unique values option, and click the OK button. Now you will see 6 unique lottery numbers are generated and displayed in the selected cells immediately.
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I want to generate a series of permutations of a row in Excel.
The genesis row could be, for example,
I would like to generate an arbitrary number of other rows with the same contents but shuffled, for example
Is this possible?
spraffspraff3 Answers
Place the values in A1 through G1
In A2 through G2 enter:
In A3 through G3 enter:
Each time the worksheet is re-calculated, a new permutation will be generated.
Gary's StudentGary's StudentI use a method similar to what Gary's Student posted, but I use RANK in my formula instead. I think this simplifies the formula and makes it a little easier to understand.
Random Number And Alphabet Generator
For sample data in A1:G1:
Fill the formula =RAND() across A2:G2.
Then fill the formula below across A3:G3.
This is good for a one-off or a small number of rows.
For a more robust solution, I would use VBA. The macro below will allow you to select the values you want to shuffle and specify the number of permutations you'd like to create. The permutations will be printed to a new sheet, where you can copy and paste them wherever you like.
ShuffleArray function is not my work.
Source: www.cpearson.com/excel/ShuffleArray.aspx Copyright 2018, Charles H. Pearson
It is absolutely possible, but the techniques for setting this up are far from obvious.
For each new row, to generate numbers pointing to positions in the original row, I would rank a series of random numbers by size from largest to smallest, using the RANK() and RAND() functions.
Excel does not prevent RAND() from generating the same random number more than once. To circumvent this issue, I would use modified random numbers that are forced to be different from all of the others in the list. My expressions round each random number and then add a unique small number (which is smaller than the rounding increment) to do this.
(My modification causes some permutations to be trivially more probable than others, and I am assuming that you don't need the document's randomness to be of the very highest caliber, or else you wouldn't be using Excel as your random number generator.)
After making the rankings, I would copy and paste them to new cells as values. Then I would tie each new rearranged row to the cells with the pasted rankings, and to the original row, using the OFFSET() function in my formulas.
As an alternative, you could tie the rearranged rows to the rankings without copying and pasting them as values. Doing that would cause your rows to be shuffled every time Excel recalculates the document, because numbers generated from the RAND() function are not sticky in Excel.
Images are probably essential to understanding what I have described. Click on the below to see large images:
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