California Lottery AI Picks is a data project about California Lottery games — scratchers, Mega Millions and Powerball. We publish two things: daily number analysis for the draw games, and a ranked comparison of every active California scratcher based on published odds, remaining prizes and remaining ticket supply.
It is run by Ortiz Labs LLC, a small independent studio that builds data tools and automated media projects. We are not affiliated with the California State Lottery, Mega Millions, or Powerball, and we do not sell tickets, picks, or gambling services.
Every active California scratcher game, scored on real published data:
The result is a value score you can compare across games and price points, with the raw inputs shown next to it so you can audit the reasoning instead of trusting a number.
For Mega Millions and Powerball we publish five number sets per game, regenerated after every draw: hot numbers, hot-cold blends, balanced spreads, last-draw echoes, and cold numbers. Each is labelled with the strategy behind it.
Lottery draws are random and cannot be predicted. No amount of historical analysis changes the probability of the next draw. Our number sets are descriptive statistics and structured play suggestions — not forecasts. Anyone promising you a system that beats a fair draw is selling you something that does not exist.
Most lottery content online either hypes a system or repeats the same thin "top 10 lucky numbers" filler. Neither helps anyone. Our guides explain how the games actually work: how to read odds that are printed on a ticket, how prizes-remaining data should and should not be used, what happens when you win, and how California taxes lottery prizes. Understanding the maths is what lets someone play for fun without losing more than they intended.
Our scratcher pages are regenerated automatically every morning from public lottery data sources, including the California State Lottery's published game and prize-tier data, plus public draw histories for the multi-state games. The build process is scripted and repeatable, which means the numbers published today can be reproduced and checked tomorrow.
Where data is estimated or derived — for example, remaining ticket counts inferred from prize-tier reporting — we say so on the page rather than implying more precision than exists.
Questions, corrections, data requests or press: use the contact page. We read everything and reply to most things.