diff --git a/wpreddit/config.py b/wpreddit/config.py
index 1f1b298..7d9edce 100644
--- a/wpreddit/config.py
+++ b/wpreddit/config.py
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ def parse_config():
     global startupattempts
     global savedir
     global randomsub
+    global lottery
     if config.get('Title Overlay', 'titlegravity', fallback=None) is not None:
         print("You are using an old (pre v3) configuration file.  Please delete your config file at " + confdir +
               " and let the program create a new one.")
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ def parse_config():
     minheight = config.getint('Options', 'minheight', fallback=1080)
     resize = config.getboolean('Options', 'resize', fallback=True)
     randomsub = config.getboolean('Options', 'random', fallback=False)
+    lottery = config.getboolean('Options', 'lottery', fallback=False)
     setcmd = config.get('SetCommand', 'setcommand', fallback='')
     settitle = config.getboolean('Title Overlay', 'settitle', fallback=False)
     titlesize = config.getint('Title Overlay', 'titlesize', fallback=24)
@@ -145,6 +147,8 @@ def parse_args():
                         help="will pick a random subreddit from the ones provided instead of turning them into a multireddit",
                         action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument("--settitle", help="write title over the image", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--lottery", help="select a random image from a subreddit instead of the newest", action="store_true")
+    
     args = parser.parse_args()
     global subs
     global verbose
@@ -156,6 +160,7 @@ def parse_args():
     global settitle
     global randomsub
     global blacklistcurrent
+    global lottery
     if not args.subreddits == []:
         subs = args.subreddits
     verbose = args.verbose
@@ -171,6 +176,8 @@ def parse_args():
         randomsub = True
     if args.blacklist:
         blacklistcurrent = True
+    if args.lottery:
+        lottery = True
 
 
 # in - string - messages to print
@@ -178,3 +185,4 @@ def parse_args():
 def log(info):
     if verbose:
         print(info)
+
diff --git a/wpreddit/download.py b/wpreddit/download.py
index 9b19a04..158f155 100644
--- a/wpreddit/download.py
+++ b/wpreddit/download.py
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ def download_image(url, title):
         if config.settitle:
             img = set_image_title(img, title)
         if config.opsys == "Windows":
-            img.save(config.walldir + '\\wallpaper.bmp', "BMP")
+            img.convert('RGB').save(config.walldir + '\\wallpaper.bmp', "BMP")
         else:
-            img.save(config.walldir + '/wallpaper.jpg', "JPEG")
+            img.convert('RGB').save(config.walldir + '/wallpaper.jpg', "JPEG")
+
     except IOError:
         print("Error saving image!")
         sys.exit(1)
@@ -57,19 +58,19 @@ def set_image_title(img, title):
     return img
 
 
-# in - string, string, - a url and a title
+# in - [string, string, string] - url, title, and permalink
 # saves the url of the image to ~/.wallpaper/url.txt, the title of the image to ~/.wallpaper/title.txt,
 # and the permalink to ~/.wallpaper/permalink.txt just for reference
-def save_info(url, title, permalink):
+def save_info(link):
     # Reddit escapes the unicode in json, so when the json is downloaded, the info has to be manually re-encoded
     # and have the unicode characters reprocessed
     # title = title.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode-escape')
     with open(config.walldir + '/url.txt', 'w') as urlinfo:
-        urlinfo.write(url)
+        urlinfo.write(link[0])
     with open(config.walldir + '/title.txt', 'w') as titleinfo:
-        titleinfo.write(remove_tags(title))
+        titleinfo.write(remove_tags(link[1]))
     with open(config.walldir + '/permalink.txt', 'w') as linkinfo:
-        linkinfo.write(permalink)
+        linkinfo.write(link[2])
 
 
 # in - string - title of the picture
diff --git a/wpreddit/main.py b/wpreddit/main.py
index c7b44e4..6e7fe0d 100644
--- a/wpreddit/main.py
+++ b/wpreddit/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+import random
 import sys
 from pkg_resources import resource_string
 from subprocess import check_call, CalledProcessError
@@ -37,14 +38,11 @@ def run():
             print("ERROR: You do not appear to be connected to Reddit. Exiting")
             sys.exit(1)
         links = reddit.get_links()
-        titles = links[1]
-        permalinks = links[2]
-        valid = reddit.choose_valid(links[0])
-        valid_url = valid[0]
-        title = titles[valid[1]]
-        permalink = permalinks[valid[1]]
-        download.download_image(valid_url, title)
-        download.save_info(valid_url, title, permalink)
+        if (config.lottery == True):
+            random.shuffle(links)
+        valid = reddit.choose_valid(links)
+        download.download_image(valid[0], valid[1])
+        download.save_info(valid)
         wallpaper.set_wallpaper()
         external_script()
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
diff --git a/wpreddit/reddit.py b/wpreddit/reddit.py
index 51c0026..98bb633 100644
--- a/wpreddit/reddit.py
+++ b/wpreddit/reddit.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 
 # in - string[] - list of subreddits to get links from
-# out - string[], string[], string[] - a list of links from the subreddits and their respective titles and permalinks
+# out - [string, string, string][] - a list of links from the subreddits and their respective titles and permalinks
 # takes in subreddits, converts them to a reddit json url, and then picks out urls and their titles
 def get_links():
     print("searching for valid images...")
@@ -35,17 +35,15 @@ def get_links():
         sys.exit(0)
     response.close()
     links = []
-    titles = []
-    permalinks = []
     for i in data["data"]["children"]:
-        links.append(i["data"]["url"])
-        titles.append(i["data"]["title"])
-        permalinks.append("http://reddit.com" + i["data"]["permalink"])
-    return links, titles, permalinks
+        links.append([i["data"]["url"],
+                      i["data"]["title"],
+                      "http://reddit.com" + i["data"]["permalink"]])
+    return links
 
 
-# in - string[] - list of links to check
-# out - string, int - first link to match all criteria and its index (for matching it with a title)
+# in - [string, string, string][] - list of links to check
+# out - [string, string, string] - first link to match all criteria with title and permalink
 # takes in a list of links and attempts to find the first one that is a direct image link,
 # is within the proper dimensions, and is not blacklisted
 def choose_valid(links):
@@ -53,8 +51,8 @@ def choose_valid(links):
         print("No links were returned from any of those subreddits. Are they valid?")
         sys.exit(1)
     for i, origlink in enumerate(links):
-        config.log("checking link # {0}: {1}".format(i, origlink))
-        link = origlink
+        link = origlink[0]
+        config.log("checking link # {0}: {1}".format(i, link))
         if not (link[-4:] == '.png' or link[-4:] == '.jpg' or link[-5:] == '.jpeg'):
             if re.search('(imgur\.com)(?!/a/)', link):
                 link = link.replace("/gallery", "")
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@ def check_same_url(link):
                     return True
 
         if config.force_dl or not (os.path.isfile(config.walldir + '/url.txt')) or check_same_url(link):
-            return link, i
+            return [link, origlink[1], origlink[2]]
     print("No valid links were found from any of those subreddits.  Try increasing the maxlink parameter.")
     sys.exit(0)