Lotto — the Texas Lotto Lab

Not to be confused with the T2 Lotto iOS app, the native app that grew out of this lab — this is the web microsite at turntwo.dev/lotto.

The Texas Lotto Lab is a self-contained sub-product of TurnTwo at /lotto. Its whole premise is honesty: a fair draw is memoryless, so the lab refuses to sell the fantasy that past numbers predict future ones, and instead surfaces the edges that are actually real — expected value, the cost of picking popular numbers, and whether a game's results look statistically clean. Jay declined to build a number predictor on principle. That posture has the same shape as TrustFirst's advice boundary: tell people the true thing, not the thing that converts.

It carries its own visual identity on purpose — a light Texas-Lottery look, not turntwo.dev's cream-and-petrol editorial style — while holding to the same craft bar as the rest of the platform. The frame is "look what we can build for you": a bespoke microsite that doubles as a portfolio piece.

What's in it

Texas games are loaded with their full draw history plus current jackpots. The dashboard is a results board. A Number Lab is a heatmap of every number with a chi-square read on whether the draws look fair. An EV calculator gives a verdict-first expected-value answer with per-tier tax handling. A Number Builder leads with your combined chances and flags split-risk on popular picks, with a most-drawn versus rarely-picked toggle. My Tickets is full create-read-update-delete with ROI and auto-matching against drawn results. A Strategy Backtester runs a picking strategy against history and ends on a "could you have called it?" reveal.

State

Live and deployed. A later overhaul raised the player-facing craft — a full-width responsive layout, real modals, and draw-count-anchored horizons. The lab is intentionally not yet linked from the main TurnTwo nav — it's reachable by URL — while whether and when to write it into the site is a later decision.