Had an interesting online bingo Chat Room discussion with some people over the weekend in connection about the amount of luck we have...  If you accept (as most do, I think,) that Bingo is largely a game of chance, and luck, do you have a reserve of the blessing of luck?

I know that there’s a view that you make your own luck. And it must be true that if you don’t indulge in Bingo at all, then you’re not going to have any luck winning! To coin that old Lottery sound bite- you’ve got to be in it to win it. So you’re in the game, then you’re in with a chance. But if you play Bingo online, do you increase your chances of coming out better than breaking even after a period of time?

Well a person I chatted to, Sarah, thinks that if you play more often, then you are more likely to draw down greater favour from Lady Luck.  This lady was saying that, all things being equal, if you roll a pair of die a hundred times, you are more likely to come up with a double 6 at the 100th roll, than if you just roll once.  This was beginning to do my noddle in! Not sure I subscribe to that, but I did accept that some people seem more luckier than others. When I was Calling Bingo live, some people wouldn’t come to an event if they knew a particular person was going to be there, because that was person was thought to have more than the average luck, and therefore would reduce everyone else’s chances of a big win. Or at least they would have to share a win with them.  I would argue that eventually luck “runs out”, and over a (possibly long) period of time we should all have the same luck at Bingo.

That argument didn’t cut much ice, because Sarah considers that there is a commodity of luck, and that people who are unlucky in other non-Bingo walks of life, increase their luck when playing Bingo.  She thought that is a person was regularly unlucky at say, Poker, or betting on the Horses, or even in non-gambling things such as, slipping on ice in Winter, then they had a fund of luck stored up. And that deficiency of luck would be corrected, or balanced at Bingo. Their luck would be tapped, and reaped in the form of a Bingo win.  What do you think? Have we all got a week, or a month, or a lifetime of luck, that is identical and to be shared between all the things we do?

I am a simple soul, and this seemed to be getting beyond me, so I declared a truce and said, we should just play another game of Bingo, taking into account that I felt lucky and she didn’t. Sarah won. Which possibly consigned the whole personal finite luck theory to the bin.

When all’s said and done these heavy discussions on the nature of luck probably just detract from the fun of my favourite game...

So dare I wish you good luck? Lol!