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Throughout the world, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns which will provide them one advantage. There is one such lottery strategy that is proven to provide them an edge. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in all of the lotteries. They are called Longshots.
In the event that you don’t know what Longshots are, we will begin with some history as well as a definition. A couple 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 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 tends to increase your chances of winning the lottery online.
At the start, it sounds plausible enough. Nonetheless, let’s think of this. Implicit in the strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that have not 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 fact, I applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is definitely an absolute necessity for virtually every viable lottery strategy.
For all of those lottery players who got caught up within the Hot Number Strategy hype, this was, undoubtedly, a very expensive lesson. A whole 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 crucial 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 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 example, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it really is for a 6/44 lottery. Nevertheless, you can rest assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.
It’s simple for someone to verify this. Well, maybe without a superb lottery software program, not so simple. Nevertheless, in either case, this really is the approach. List all of the lottery numbers which have Hit in the last 10 drawings for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not within the list must be a Longshot. Count the range 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%.
How can you make use of this data? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on an average, 30% of the winning numbers in the next drawing could 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) Simply, this does not 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 cash. On an average, their play lists were coming up 1.8 numbers short. This must have been (and still is) very frustrating for the players using this weak lottery strategy.
Some of you are, no doubt, asking how you can take good thing about Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, it really is very simple. Let’s say you opt to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the assistance of lottery analysis software. Not only 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 in your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)
It really 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 fact, that is what all successful gamblers do; play the odds.
