Across the world, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that may provide them one advantage. There is just 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 are called Longshots.

If you don’t know what Longshots are, we will start with some history and a definition. A few years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of a more suitable name, we’ll call the Hot Number Strategy. Along with it came the standard 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 can enhance your probability of winning the lottery.

At first, it sounds plausible enough. Still, let’s think of this. Implicit in the strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that have not Hit within the last 10 drawings are thought about a rather dubious pick. Hence, these lottery numbers were named Longshots. The name persists to this day and I even use it. However, I don’t malign the usage of Longshots. Actually, i thought about this applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is an absolute necessity for almost any viable lottery strategy.

For all of those lottery players who got caught up within the Hot Number Strategy hype, this was, without doubt, a very expensive lesson. A lot of cash 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 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 twenty years. That’s when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. For example, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it is for a 6/44 lottery. But, you may be 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 great lottery software program, not so simple. Nevertheless, in any event, this is the approach. List all of the lottery numbers that have Hit within the last 10 drawings for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not in the list must be a Longshot. Count the range of winning numbers in the next drawing who were Longshots. Do this for the entire lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots that were winners, you shall find the answer lies someplace between 25 and 40%.

How can you take advantage of this data? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the regular, 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 does not happen every drawing but it’s unwaveringly persistent over-time. As an example, in Lotto Texas, at least 1 of the winning numbers is a Longshot 89% of the time! To put it differently, you can count on it.

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

Some of you are, without doubt, asking how you may take advantage of Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, it’s very simple. Let’s say you decide 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 have 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 within your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)

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