A ball residing further down the food chain that still exhibits good results based on recent regression tests, while at the same time moving off a top performing recent result on the theory of avoiding overplayed and worn out numbers and replacing them with “primed” candidates. A blackout play takes away any number with recent high performance (from an analysis method) and replaces it with the next highest score. For example, if a hot analysis revealed the top ten numbers, in order, to be 14, 26, 41, 47, 35, 8, 18, 17, 2, 11, and you are playing the top seven (14, 26, 41, 47, 35, 8, 18), you might blackout the “14” and the “17” would be brought in.