Throughout the world, serious lottery players are searching for online lottery number patterns that can provide them a benefit. There is one such lottery strategy that is proven to provide them an edge. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in all lotteries. They may be called Longshots.

If you don’t determine what Longshots are, we will begin with some history as well as a definition. Several 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. Together with it came the common marketing hype that you would expect. The pitch went something like this:

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

In the early stages, it sounds plausible enough. But, let’s think of this. Implicit within this strategy will be the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that haven’t Hit in 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. Yet, I do not malign the use of Longshots. In reality, I applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is definitely 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, an extremely expensive lesson. A lot of cash was spent with little to show for it.

Excluding Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster. In reality, including Longshots will be essential to any viable lottery strategy because, on a normal, 25% to 40% of the winning numbers are Longshots! You heard me right; 25% to 40%.

This has been true for every lottery in the US and Canada for over twenty years. That is when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. As an example, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it is for a 6/44 lottery. Nevertheless, you may rest assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.

It really is simple for anyone to verify this. Well, maybe without a great lottery software program, not so simple. Still, no matter what, this is the approach. List all the lottery numbers that have Hit within the last 10 drawings for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not within the list must be a Longshot. Count the number of winning numbers within the next drawing that were Longshots. Do this for the whole lottery history. If you average the range of Longshots that were winners, you shall find the answer lies somewhere between 25 and 40 percent.

How can you take advantage of these details? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on an average, 30% of the winning numbers in the next drawing would be Longshots. If you were playing a 6/48 lottery, this means you should expect 1.8 winning numbers to be Longshots. (30% x 6 = 1.8) Of course, this will not happen every drawing but it is 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 cash. On an average, their play lists were coming up 1.8 numbers short. This must have been (but still is) very frustrating for the players using this weak lottery strategy.

Several of you are, undoubtedly, asking how you may take benefit of Longshot when you play. Continuing with the example above, it really is very simple. Let’s say you elect to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the help of lottery analysis software. Not really 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 ensure that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers within your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)

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