Ah! Ah! 2991. That's a bad number!

And let us do it for you! The distribution of lottery numbers came out today, and some of us have zebra lines burned into our eyes from counting groups on those PDFs.

But no more worries! Below is a housing “calculator” that lets you know how many groups of your size will go before you. To use it, enter your group size, point value, and lotto number, then click “GO!”

Blake Arnold, SEAS ’11, created it last year, and with his permission, we’ve adapted it for the 2011-2012 lottery and embedded it below.

Update: Justin Kahn has tipped us with a Google Doc he made that shows similar information, neatly laid out in a spreadsheet.


Group Size:

Point Value:

General Selection

Suite Selection

Lottery Number: