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Around the globe, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that will provide them an advantage. There is just one such lottery strategy that’s proven to provide them an edge. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in all of the lotteries. They may be called Longshots.
If you don’t know what Longshots are, we will start with some history as well as a definition. Several years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of a far better name, we’ll call the Hot Number Strategy. Together with it came the average 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 can enhance your probability of winning the lottery.
At the beginning, it sounds plausible enough. Yet, let’s think about this. Implicit inside this strategy will be the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that haven’t Hit within 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. Still, I do not malign the usage of Longshots. The truth is, I applaud them. Including Longshots in a play list is an absolute necessity for just about 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 very expensive lesson. A whole lot of cash was spent with little to show for it.
Excluding Longshots resulted in a Hot Number Strategy disaster. You see, 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 two decades. That is 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. Yet, you may be assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.
It’s simple for anyone to verify this. Well, maybe without a superb 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 within the next drawing that were Longshots. Do this for the entire lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots which 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 normal, 30% of the winning numbers within the next drawing will be Longshots. If you were playing a 6/48 lottery, consequently you should expect 1.8 winning numbers to be Longshots. (30% x 6 = 1.8) Simply, this will not happen every drawing but it is 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! In other words, 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 (and still is) very frustrating for the players using this weak lottery strategy.
Some of you are, without doubt, asking how you will take benefit from Longshot when 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 assistance of lottery analysis software. Not just 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 make certain that 11 of those 37 lottery numbers in your play list are Longshots. (30%x37=11.1)
It is 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.
