Around the world, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that can provide them a benefit. There is one such lottery strategy that is proven to provide them an advantage. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in all of the lotteries. They’re called Longshots.

If you don’t determine what Longshots are, we will begin with some history and also a definition. Several years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of a better name, we’ll call the Hot Number Strategy. Together with it came the average marketing hype that you would expect. The pitch went something like this:

Since more than 80% of all winning lottery numbers Hit in the last 10 drawings, create your play list from the winners within the last 10 drawings. This may improve your probability of winning the lottery.

At the start, it sounds plausible enough. Yet, let’s think of this. Implicit inside this strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that have not Hit within the last 10 drawings are considered a rather dubious pick. Hence, these lottery numbers were named Longshots. The name persists to this day and I even use it. Nonetheless, I do not malign the use of Longshots. In fact, I applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is definitely an absolute necessity for just about any viable lottery strategy.

For all of those lottery players who got caught up within the Hot Number Strategy hype, this was, no doubt, an extremely expensive lesson. A lot of money was spent with little to show for it.

Excluding Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster. The thing is, including Longshots is important to any viable official lottery strategy because, on the standard, 25% to 40% of the winning numbers are Longshots! You heard me right; 25% to 40%.

This has been true for every lottery within the US and Canada for over two decades. That is when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. For instance, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it’s for a 6/44 lottery. But, you can rest assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.

It really is simple for someone to verify this. Well, maybe without a good lottery software program, not so simple. Nevertheless, in either case, this really is the approach. List all of the lottery numbers which have Hit within the last 10 drawings for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not in the list has to be a Longshot. Count the range of winning numbers within the next drawing that have been Longshots. Do this for the entire lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots who were winners, you will find the answer lies somewhere between 25 and 40 percent.

How can you take advantage of this information? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the common, 30% of the winning numbers within the next drawing would be Longshots. If you were playing a 6/48 lottery, it means that you should expect 1.8 winning numbers to be Longshots. (30% x 6 = 1.8) Bear in mind, this doesn’t happen every drawing but it really is unwaveringly persistent over-time. For instance, in Lotto Texas, at least 1 of the winning numbers is a Longshot 89% of the time! Put simply, you can count on it.

This shows why the Hot Number Strategy practitioners wasted so much money. On the typical, their play lists were coming up 1.8 numbers short. This must are already (but still is) very frustrating for the players using this weak lottery strategy.

Several of you are, without doubt, asking the way you can take benefit of Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, it’s very simple. Let’s say you elect to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the aid of lottery analysis software. Not a bad strategy since you’ve got eliminated 9,946,728 wagers from play! Since you are expecting 30% of the winning lottery numbers to be Longshots, you make sure that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers in your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)

It’s hard to imagine any lottery strategy that does not include Longshots. Serious lottery players everywhere use it. This is called playing the odds. Actually, that is what all successful gamblers do; play the odds.