Andy, Just installed this on a live board.

It is fantastic, Thanks for all the hard work:)

Take your time, man, this is fun either way.

Also, this may just be me, but could you set up a statistics for the poorest people? I have a board that delights in mocking and laughing at them.

Hello and thanks for the hack.
In the UK, our lottery has numbers 1-49 with 6 balls picked plus a bonus ball.
Full details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery
I'd be VERY grateful if you could modify your wonderful hack so that it would be possible to emulate the UK Lotto.
Many thanks.

That can definitely be done, we got the same odds here. I just figured that for a forum odds of 1 in 14 million where a little steep, you'd likely go years without ever getting a winner

Got a bug for you.
Changed the currency symbol to a pound as per another post here.
The change is not reflected in the user profile page. It still shows a dollar sign.

There are set prizes :
3 numbers ?10 56:1 (i.e. 1 in 57)
4 numbers 22% of remaining fund 1,031:1
5 numbers 10% of remaining fund 55,490:1
5 numbers and bonus ball 16% of remaining fund 2,330,635:1
6 numbers 52% of remaining fund 13,983,815:1 (i.e. 1 in 13,983,816)

I can imagine that programming the lottery could get quite complicated, but we could have it so that the whole fund rolls over (if it doesn't already).

Andrew - is the any plans on giving the admin control of the odds for each of the games? I'd like to loosen mine up a bit as winning is fun for people and breaking even gets a tad bit old.

I use the thread rating/creating and posting bonus as a carrot to get people posting. Every now and again have a bonus day giving out lots of $s. The last time I did it we broke our highest posts and threads in a day ever lol. They soon blow that away and want another. As we have a section where anything goes it gives them something to do for a bit too. It has created an e-conomy with female members selling provocative pics :D for casino money which I found kinda funny. The options are endless tbh.

The Casino Settings allow a way to "pay" people automatically for that stuff. My members love it.

We have also created access levels like you would do for an actual paid forum--they can "buy" privileges with their booty. People were worried about post whoring but it doesn't seem to be happening. Not to mention, my board is still pretty small (for now)

I also "pay" the staff.

All I can say is you must have better looking women on your forum than mine! Whoa.. not good.. :D