Drawing machines are lotto machines used by official lotteries to draw the winning numbers. Drawing machines usually have balls with lotto numbers maked on them, and the machine will blow the balls around and randomly draw out the number of balls that is the pick size of the lotto (5 for pick-5 games, 6 for pick-6, etc). The numbers on the selected balls are the winning lotto numbers.

Some modern lotteries no longer use actual drawing machines, but instead use a computerized system to randomly draw the numbers. Can I still use lotto strategy for computerized lotteries? We often are asked this question as many people are suspicious that lotto games without the old fashioned machines are rigged. However, patterns can still be found in the drawing history no matter how the numbers are drawn.