Lingotto

Lingotto is Marco Tenuti's Italian-language utility for building and analysing complex SuperEnalotto lottery systems, archived to Info-Mac under game/ despite being more of a number-crunching tool than an action title. Version 2.0.1 is the Mac OS X-native build; the earlier 1.4.6 release covers System 7 through Mac OS 9.

What it does

The author's own description is the cleanest summary: Lingotto "enormously facilitates the formulation of complex systems of SuperEnalotto." It builds systems combining 6 to 90 numbers, constrains columns by sum, symmetries, parallels, interruptions, distances, tens, finals, odd/even, and consecutivity, recovers wrong conditions, reduces systems to chase second- and third-category wins, prints directly onto SuperEnalotto forms, and exports to plain text.

Versions and what changed

Lingotto 1.4.6 (System 7.0+, FAT 68k/PPC, 4 MB RAM, 3 MB disk) added a jolly-number check, a lower bound in the fast-creation dialog, and bug fixes. Lingotto 2.0.1 (Mac OS 8.1, CarbonLib 1.0.4, PowerPC, 4 MB RAM, 4 MB disk) went native on Mac OS X, made several dialogs Aqua-compliant, and shipped further fixes. Documentation is Italian-only across both releases.

Catalogue note

Despite the info-mac/game path, this is a lottery-systems utility - there is no scoring, no opponent, and no playfield. Macintosh Garden has no page at games/lingotto or games/lingotto-0; the BinHex headers in lingotto-201.hqx and lingotto-146.hqx are the only canonical descriptions of the title.

Provenance

Author Marco Tenuti, contact tencas@kagi.com (registration handled through Kagi, the standard 1990s/2000s Mac-shareware payment processor). Distributed as lingotto-201.hqx and earlier lingotto-146.hqx on Info-Mac. No Macintosh Garden mirror, no MobyGames record.