You can call it fate, you can call it chance; the fact of the matter is that whether you win the lottery or not, is purely down the luck. There are many superstitions that people have surrounding the lottery, but the vast majority of these have proven to be totally unfounded. Here are a few examples of the most common lottery superstitions. How many of these, we wonder, apply to you?
Lucky numbers
Let’s start with the most common superstition. Lucky numbers. Most people consider the number 7 lucky, and similarly the number 13 unlucky. However, if you do the research, the stats will tell you that in several major worldwide lotteries, the number 13 has been drawn more times than any other number. What do you make of that then?
Many players have their own special set of numbers that mean something to them. If you win with them, it doesn’t necessarily make them lucky numbers. They have probably failed you more times than they have led to you to fame, wealth and glory. There are only a finite number of winning combinations, and eventually, yours were going to come up.
The just plain bizarre
A survey of lottery players looked at some of the less common superstitions. You might be amazed with what they found. Many people pass their lottery ticket over an animal, which they consider to be lucky. Other carry good luck charms with them when they buy their lottery tickets, and some people refuse to buy tickets when they are wearing specific colours. There’s many more too, but we won’t burden you with the superstitions of such a small section of the gambling population.
Finding a lucky shop
Of course, some shops are going to have produced more winning tickets than others. That is just a statistics for you. There could be several reasons why this is the case. Shops centred in the middle of extremely busy cities are always going to be more popular with gamblers, since there are more of them around, than those shops located in the outskirts of a far-flung country village. Common sense dictates that the busier the shop is, the more tickets they will sell, and the greater the chance that they will produce a lottery win. Some people see superstition, and others see logic.
Dreams
Did you dream of a lottery win? Many people who do tend to consider putting a bet on the next lottery draw. It is of course, a powerful incentive, though not much more than that. Anybody who has dreamt of a lottery win, placed a bet on and not won, won’t tell you about the dream. You only hear about the people who’ve won the lottery after having a dream of it. Again, this doesn’t make it a sign from the heavens that you’re going to win the lotto. Far more people dream of the lottery and win nothing the next time they play.
Does that mean that I shouldn’t be superstitious?
Not at all. In fact, under many circumstances, superstition can be a powerful driving force, which might lead you on to doing something you wouldn’t ordinarily do. It could make you purchase a ticket even when you have never played before, and you could win. When superstition is used as a reason for playing, it can powerful. But it shouldn’t be used as a reason for a win. You win lotteries because of luck, a random, one in a million chance, and that’s about all there is to it.
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