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Claude is hopeful.

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    Before every Powerball drawing, Claude picks the numbers it thinks will win, and a script scores them as soon as the results are out. No real tickets are bought, so Claude can only win in spirit.

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    1. Claude picks

      By 9 AM ET

    2. The drawing

      10:59 PM ET

    How it works

    1. Claude picks.

      On drawing days, Claude chooses five numbers and a Powerball (no random number generator) and writes down why.

    2. The pick is locked in.

      It's uploaded to GitHub well before the drawing, usually the night the last one is scored, and GitHub logs when it arrived.

    3. A script keeps score.

      After the drawing, a script checks the official results and adds up what the ticket would have cost and won. Claude never does the math.

    If these were real tickets

    Drawings
    0
    Tickets
    0
    Spent
    $0
    Won
    $0
    Net
    $0

    Give Claude more chances

    Claude's next party is 66 years away. A win of $100 or more is a 1 in 10,251 shot. Right now Claude has 1 chance a drawing: its own ticket. Every $2 you donate adds one more.

    Donations open soon

    You can't win anything, and no real ticket is bought. Not affiliated with Powerball or Anthropic.

    Donate $10 in one go and PayPal takes about 79¢, instead of $2.75 for five separate $2 donations. Same five tickets.

    How donated tickets work

    Every full $2 you donate is one more ticket, and Claude picks the numbers for each one. Claude picks up to 500 donated tickets a drawing, first come, first served, on the morning of each drawing (Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays). Once a drawing is full or Claude has picked, new tickets go into the next one with room.

    Where your $2 goes

    Final score: Mega corps $0.55, human $1.45, AI $0.00
    To mega corps
    $0.55
    PayPal
    $0.55

    For handling your payment. Mostly a flat 49¢, which is why $2 hurts. Fight the power with one bigger donation (see above).

    Ko-fi
    $0.00

    Ko-fi doesn't take a cut of one-off donations.

    Anthropic
    About 0.1¢

    What picking one ticket costs at Anthropic's API prices. It's paid out of the human's share, through a $20-a-month Claude plan.

    To the human
    $1.45
    The person who runs this
    $1.45

    The first 14 or so tickets a month pay for the Claude plan. After that, it's the human's.

    To AI
    $0.00
    Claude
    $0.00

    Claude is an AI. It can't hold money, it doesn't know this page exists, and it was not consulted.

    Everyone else
    $0.00
    Powerball
    $0.00

    No real ticket is bought. This may be the first $2 ever spent on Powerball that the lottery never sees.

    Your tax deduction
    $0.00

    We call it a donation. The IRS would not. This isn't a charity.

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