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Around the world, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that can 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 most lotteries. They are called Longshots.

If you don't know what Longshots are, we'll begin with some history as well as a definition. A number of years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of an even better name, we will call the Hot Number Strategy. Together with it came the typical 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. It will boost your prospects of winning the lottery.

Initially, it sounds plausible enough. Nonetheless, let's think of this. Implicit in the strategy will be the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that have not Hit within the last 10 drawings will be considered a rather dubious pick. Hence, these lottery numbers were named Longshots. The name persists to this day and I even use it. But, I do not malign the utilization of Longshots. Actually, 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 within the Hot Number Strategy hype, this was, without doubt, a really 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 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 within the US and Canada for over two decades. That's when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. One example is the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it's for a 6/44 lottery. Yet, you may rest assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.

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

How can you take advantage of this data? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the normal, 30% of the winning numbers in the next drawing could be Longshots. If you were playing a 6/48 lottery, therefore you should expect 1.8 winning numbers to be Longshots. (30% x 6 = 1.8) Keep in mind, this doesn't happen every drawing but it is unwaveringly persistent over-time. One example is in Lotto Texas, at least 1 of the winning numbers is a Longshot 89% of the time! In other words, 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 are already (but still is) very frustrating for the players using this weak lottery strategy.

Some of you are, no doubt, asking how you can take advantage of Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, recent Estvgti Becora blog post it's very simple. Let's say you opt to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the aid 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 will not 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.