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Around the world, serious lottery players are trying to find lottery number patterns that will provide them an advantage. There is one such lottery strategy that is proven to provide them an edge. It utilizes lottery number patterns which exist in all lotteries. They are called Longshots.

If you don’t know what Longshots are, we’ll start with some history and a definition. Many 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. Along with it came the common marketing hype that you would expect. The pitch went similar to this:

Since more than 80% of all winning lottery numbers Hit within the past 10 pictures, create your play list from the winners within the last 10 pictures. This will increase your likelihood of winning the lottery.

At first, it sounds possible enough. But, let’s think about this. Play acted in this strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that haven’t Hit within the last 10 pictures are viewed an extremely on your guard pick. Hence, these lottery numbers were named Longshots. The name persists to this day and I make use of it. But, I really do not malign the use 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 embroiled in the Hot Number Strategy hype, this became, no doubt, a very expensive lesson. A lot of money was spent with little to show for it.

Not including Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster Data SDY. You see, including Longshots is essential 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%.

It’s been true for every lottery in the usa and The us for over 19 years. That’s 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. But, you can rest assured that this lottery number pattern can be as solid as a rock.

It is simple for anyone to verify this. Well, maybe without an excellent lottery software program, not so simple. But, either way, this is the approach. List all of the lottery numbers that have Hit within the last 10 pictures for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not in the list must be a Longshot. Count the number of winning numbers yearly drawing that were Longshots. Do this for your lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots that were winners, you will find the answer lies somewhere between 25 and 40 percent.

How can you take advantage of this information? Assuming that the answer you still have was 30%, then, on the average, 30% of the winning numbers yearly drawing would be Longshots. If you were playing a 6/48 lottery, this means that 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 example, in Lotto Tx, at least one of the winning numbers is a Longshot 89% of that time period! In other words, you can count on it.

This shows why the Hot Number Strategy practitioners wasted so much money. On the 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 advantage of Longshot when you play. Continuing with the example above, it is very simple. Let’s say you may pare down a twenty four 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 bets from play! Since you are expecting 30% of the winning lottery numbers to be Longshots, you make sure that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers in your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11. 1)