{
  "id": 1666696,
  "title": "I Built a Lottery Simulator That Shows You Losing Money for 1000 Years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/i-built-a-lottery-simulator-that-shows-you-losing-money-for-1000-years",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-18T07:34:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/cdieck88/i-built-a-lottery-simulator-that-shows-you-losing-money-for-1000-years-1fdp"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I constructed a lottery simulation website called howtolosemoneyfast.com to vividly demonstrate how quickly one's financial situation can deteriorate through continuous lottery participation. This satirical tool lets users test thousands of EuroJackpot or Lotto 6aus49 draws against historical records dating back to 1955 for Lotto 6aus49. By inputting your personal number picks, the site reveals how often your selections would have won, typically not at all.\n\nThe simulator runs entirely in the user's browser with no backend or data collection, ensuring privacy. Created with Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Chart.js, it presents a real-time visualization of your declining net worth over time, whether playing once or twice per week for durations from a year to a millennium. Users can also configure ticket prices and the number of draws to simulate.\n\nThe project fetches historical draw data once during setup, compresses it, and embeds it for efficient access. Daily data updates occur automatically, building the simulation over time. Notably, it tracks ROI, win rate, longest losing streaks, and prize breakdowns. For EuroJackpot, achieving a billion-dollar win threshold would take an impractically long time, making the experience all the more poignant. The site offers modes to explore various scenarios, including testing your chosen numbers against real historical outcomes.",
  "summary": "What I built howtolosemoneyfast.com is a satirical lottery analysis tool. You can simulate thousands of EuroJackpot or Lotto 6aus49 draws, check your numbers against every real historical draw (back to 1955 for 6aus49), and watch a chart of your net worth go relentlessly downward. The entire thing runs client-side. No backend, no data collection. Your numbers never leave your browser. Why I…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}