Can Lottery Number Patterns Improve Your Lottery Play?

By Author: Darrel Dolph
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After more than two decades of lottery number analysis, I am more convinced than ever that any lottery player can increase his odds of winning the lottery jackpot by studying lottery number patterns. The existence of lottery number patterns and trends is no longer in contention. They are not a secret. They are available to everyone. In fact, patterns and trends are there in all games of chance. Taking advantage of them is called playing the odds and those that do it well are called professional gamblers.

Previously, I've shown how serious lottery players create a reduced play list by removing weak or underperforming numbers from play. See my article 'How Do Serious Lottery Players Play the Lottery?' By doing this the player can significantly increase their odds of winning the lottery jackpot.

Whenever I make this statement, some critics and skeptics become unglued and accuse me of just about everything short of raping the queen. Shakespeare said it best, "The skeptic doth protest too much, methinks."

The basic thread of their discontent goes something like this: Just because a lottery number ...
... had a dry spell doesn't mean that dry spell will continue. After all, it's a random game.

I can't believe I'm paraphrasing him twice in one article, but the Bard does have a way with words. The critic is 'hoist with his own petar'. The modern equivalents of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have misapplied a long term analysis to a short term game.

Lotto Number Persistence

This may surprise you, but I agree with the skeptics and critics. In fact, mathematics supports their position. In the long term, such lottery number patterns and trends will not continue. But, here is the part they either missed or don't understand. As far as the lottery is concerned, the long haul is tens of thousands of years and the short term is our lifetime.

As a practical man, I'm not very concerned about what happens in the year 2500. I am interested in what is going to happen in my lifetime. And, in my lifetime, lottery number patterns persist for months and even years before the inevitable pendulum swings back the other way. This is called Persistence and it is easy to see it at work in every lottery.

I tend to be a pragmatic sort. So, upon finding something that will give me an advantage, I don't necessarily need a mathematical formula that predicts what will happen with exactitude. You don't have to understand exactly how something works in order to take advantage of it. People still drive their cars everyday without understanding the underlying mathematics that describes how their tires work.

Lotto Number Patterns

So, what does Persistence look like? In a previous article, I stated that lottery number 45 in the Lotto Texas, 6/54 lottery was a good candidate to remove from your play list. This wasn't a random choice. It was a decision made because of the numbers past performance; a pattern; a trend. Over a period of thousands of years, all lottery numbers in Lotto Texas will hit on the average of every 9 drawings. So, in the short term, how has lottery number 45 performed?

Good lottery software makes it easy to answer questions like this. In the 335 drawings from 4/26/06 to 7/8/09 this is what happened to lottery number 45.

At first, it didn't hit for 37 drawings in a row. Later, it didn't hit for 18 drawings in a row; then 19 drawings. See the trend? See the lottery number pattern? Now, critics would say you should ignore what is right before your eyes because, after all, it's a random draw. They would not take advantage of this lottery number pattern because they don't believe it is a pattern.

But, let's say we were gamblers and played the odds. If we did, this is what would have happened.

Later, lottery number 45 didn't hit for 29 drawings in a row. The critic only considered this a fluke. Then it didn't hit for 43 drawings in a row. The critic still sticks to his guns. Then it didn't hit for 36 drawings in a row. Now, the critic is concerned that his gun isn't loaded. Then it didn't hit for 24 drawings in a row and then another 20 drawings after that. There is no place for the critic to hide. Then, most recently, it didn't hit for 39 drawings in a row!!! Someone, call the police. We have a missing critic. This lottery number pattern (the one that critics and skeptics insist does not exist) has persisted for 335 drawings. That's 3 years and 3 months! The phrase, 'Persistence pays off' comes to mind.

Regardless of what I say, there will be those who say that I chose a lottery that fit my article. No, I didn't have to cherry pick a lottery. No, this article is not staged. I could have used any lottery. This isn't T-Ball my friend. I didn't choose Lotto Texas so I could easily hit it out of the park. Lotto number patterns like this exist in every lottery, everywhere! I could have used any lottery to make my point. For proof, just look at any lottery. Simply buy yourself some good lottery software, pick any lottery and take a look.
Professor Dolph is the famous Lotto expert, lecturer and columnist who authored LONA, your LOttery Number Advisor. Go to Picking Lottery Numbers for a creative look at Lotto software.