Across the globe, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that will provide them a benefit. There is just one such lottery strategy which is proven to provide them an edge. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in all of the lotteries. They’re called Longshots.

In the event that you don’t determine what Longshots are, we will start with some history and a definition. A number of 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 normal 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 can boost your probability of winning the lottery.

In the early stages, it sounds plausible enough. Yet, let’s think of this. Implicit in this strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that haven’t 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. But, I don’t malign the usage of Longshots. In fact, I applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is an absolute necessity for any viable lottery strategy.

For all of those lottery players who got caught up in the Hot Number Strategy hype, this was, undoubtedly, an extremely expensive lesson. A whole lot of money was spent with little to show for it.

Excluding Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster. In reality, including Longshots is vital to any viable lottery strategy because, on the average, 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 20 years. That is 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. Yet, you can be assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.

It is simple for anyone to verify this. Well, maybe without a superb lottery software program, not so simple. But, no matter what, this really 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 has to be a Longshot. Count the range of winning numbers within the next drawing who were Longshots. Do this for the whole lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots that were winners, you will find the answer lies someplace between 25 and 40 percent.

How can you take advantage of this information? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the average, 30% of the winning numbers within the next drawing will 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 doesn’t happen every drawing but it 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 an average, 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.

Some of you are, no doubt, asking the way you may take advantage of Longshot when you play. Continuing with the example above, it is 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 ensure that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers within your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)

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