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Across the globe, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that can provide them a benefit. There is just 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.
Should you not know what Longshots are, we will start with some history and also a definition. Several years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of a far better name, we will call the Hot Number Strategy. As well as 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 in the last 10 drawings, create your play list from the winners in the last 10 drawings. This is going to increase your prospects of winning the official lottery.
At the beginning, it sounds plausible enough. Nonetheless, let’s think of this. Implicit within this strategy is 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. However, I do not malign the use of Longshots. In reality, 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, a very expensive lesson. A great deal of money was spent with little to show for it.
Excluding Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster. The truth 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 20 years. That’s when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. For instance, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it’s for a 6/44 lottery. Still, 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 great lottery software program, not so simple. Nonetheless, in any case, 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 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 who were winners, you will find the answer lies someplace between 25 and 40%.
How can you take advantage of this information? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the typical, 30% of the winning numbers within 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’s unwaveringly persistent over time. By way of 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 a typical, 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, without doubt, asking how you will take benefit of Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, it is very simple. Let’s say you opt to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the help 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 ensure that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers in your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)
It’s hard to imagine any lottery strategy that does not include Longshots. Serious lottery players everywhere use it. This really is called playing the odds. The truth is, that’s what all successful gamblers do; play the odds.
