Do you have any secrets? Many gamblers have tightly guarded secrets that they use to give them that winning advantage. Even your lotto has secrets. If you are searching for some advantage, want to increase your odds of winning the lotto jackpot or just want to save some money, then knowing these lotto secrets is important. Are you interested in knowing these lotto secrets? Then, read on.

Now, I've visited this subject in some of my other articles, but only in general terms. But, this time I'm going to be very specific and use examples from an actual lotto to show what is possible. The lottery I've chosen to feature in this article is the New York Lotto.

Longshots are the little secrets I'm talking about. Smart people value their money and would normally stay away from betting on a Longshot. But, the term Longshot has a different meaning when it comes to your lottery. In the lotto, a Longshot is any lotto number that hasn't hit in the last 10 drawings. This definition traces its roots back to the early days of the lottery when the lotto numbers that hit in the last 10 drawings were called Hot, due to their recent activity. Therefore, any lotto numbers not in that list were considered to be Cold or Longshots. The Longshot definition lingers to this day.

Unlike other games of chance, you would be making a big mistake if you avoided playing Longshots in your lottery. And, that is the dirty little secret you need to know if you are, or plan to be, a serious lottery player. Why? Why is your consistant success so dependent upon Longshots. Here's the answer.

Let's get specific and look at actual lotto numbers from the New York Lotto. Let's analyze 242 drawings from the NY659 lottery starting on 5/9/07 and show you how bad things can get when Longshots are omitted and just how good things can get if you apply New York Lotto's dirty little secret.

On the average, over a 242 drawing period, 2.03 of the winning lotto numbers were Longshots! That is 33.8% of the winning lotto numbers! Let's stop a minute, to be sure you grasp the significance of this revelation. Out of every 6 winning numbers drawn, on the average 2 of them were Longshots! WOW! Therefore, your terrible luck playing the lottery over the last 2 1/2 years is clearly understandable. It wasn't due to bad luck, it was because you didn't know this secret.

For all lotto players, this information is like a lighthouse on a foggy night. It's like a spare parachute for a sky diver. It's like knowing that Dudley Do-Right will arrive just in time to save Nell from the dastardly Snidely Whiplash. Now, this knowledge may not save your life but it will save you money! Let me explain.

We are going to look at Longshots from a different angle. In the NY659 lottery, over 93% of the time it required a least one Longshot to win the lottery jackpot. That's 93 drawings out of every 100. This means that, over the last year, if you didn't include Longshot numbers in your play list, you never had a chance of winning the lottery jackpot in 93 of those drawings. That's 50 weeks of lottery drawings where you wasted  your money on wagers that never had a chance of winning the lottery jackpot.

The more we look into this phenomenon, the more amazing it becomes. And, keep in mind, this isn't some theory, these are hard facts taken directly from the lottery drawing results. This table shows how many drawings contained Longshots.

3 drawings had 5 Longshots

21 drawings had 4 Longshots

56 drawings had 3 Longshots

82 drawings had 2 Longshots

62 drawings had 1 Longshots

18 drawings had 0 Longshots

This table says it all. You can see that it took 2 or more Longshots to win the lottery jackpot, in 67% of the drawings. Without knowing New York Lotto's dirty little secret, you were beating a dead horse.