Around the world, serious lottery players are searching for lottery number patterns that will provide them one advantage. There is one such lottery strategy which is proven to provide them an advantage. It utilizes lottery number patterns that exist in most lotteries. They may be called Longshots.

If you don't determine what Longshots are, we'll start with some history and also a definition. A number of years back there was a lottery strategy that became rather popular that, for lack of a better name, we will 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 boost your prospects of winning the lottery.

In the beginning, it sounds plausible enough. Yet, let's think of this. Implicit in this particular strategy is the opposite side of the coin. Any lottery numbers that haven't Hit in 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. Nevertheless, I do not malign the use of Longshots. In reality, 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 will be essential to any viable lottery strategy because, on the common, 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's when I started analyzing them. The percentage varies from lottery to lottery as the size of the lotteries change. As an example, the percentage is higher for a 6/52 lottery than it really is for a 6/44 lottery. Nevertheless, you may rest assured that this lottery number pattern is as solid as a rock.

It really is simple for anyone to verify this. Well, maybe without a fantastic lottery software program, not so simple. However, either way, this really is the approach. List all the lottery numbers which have Hit in the last 10 drawings for each lottery drawing. Any lottery number not in the list has to be a Longshot. Count the number of winning numbers in the next drawing that were Longshots. Do this for the whole lottery history. If you average the number of Longshots which were winners, you will find the answer lies somewhere between 25 and 40 percent.

How can you make use of these facts? Assuming that the answer you got was 30%, then, on the common, 30% of the winning numbers in the next 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) Bear in mind, this doesn't 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! Quite simply, you can count on it.

This shows why the Hot Number Strategy practitioners wasted so much money. On an average, 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 online lottery strategy.

Several of you are, undoubtedly, asking the way you can take benefit of Longshot whenever you play. Continuing with the example above, it's very simple. Let's say you elect to pare down a 48 number lottery to a 37 number play list with the help of lottery analysis software. Not really 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 make certain 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 will not include Longshots. Serious lottery players everywhere use it. This is called playing the odds. In reality, that is what all successful gamblers do; play the odds.