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Asked: 2026-05-30T14:16:07+00:00

The following code is my attempt at simulating a lottery. import random def lottery(numbers):

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The following code is my attempt at simulating a lottery. 

import random

def lottery(numbers):
    lottoNumbers = [randint('0,100') for count in range(3)]

    if numbers == lottoNumbers:
        print('YOU WIN $10,000')
    else:
        print('YOU LOSE,DUN DUN DUNNN!')
    return numbers


def main():
    numbers = int(input('Enter a number: '))
    if numbers == lottoNumbers:
        numbers = lottery(numbers)
    else:
        numbers = lottery(numbers)




main()

Hey guys I’ve gotten this far with the help you’ve given me. I’m trying to write the code so that 3 lotto numbers at random will be chosen. Then the user must enter 3 of his/her own lotto numbers. If they get all 3 correct then they win the whole prize, if they get the 3 numbers but not in the correct order they win some of the prize. Obviously if they guess all wrong then a print statement would state that. What I’m confused about is how can I write the code so that the user can enter 3 numbers to try matching the random lottery numbers. I also want to print the 3 lottery numbers after the user inputs his/her choices. Any ideas guys?

Thanks for your help everyone.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You seem a bit confused about what the role of the arguments in a function are. You’ve said that your randm function takes the argument “number”, but then you haven’t actually used it anywhere. The next time number appears, you’ve assigned it a completely new value, so any value passed to randm isn’t actually being used.

    Also, the function is trying to return x, when x hasn’t been assigned within the function. Either you already have a global variable called x already defined, in which case the function will just return that variable, or the function will just fail because it can’t find the variable x.

    Here’s a quick example I’ve done where you pass their three numbers as a list as an argument to the function.

    import random

theirNumbers=[5,24,67]

def checkNumbers(theirNumbers):
    lottoNumbers = []
    for count in range(3)
            lottoNumbers.append(random.randint(0,100))
    winning = True
    for number in theirNumbers:
    if not each in lottoNumbers: winning=False
    if winning == True: print("Winner!")
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