What If You Had Infinite Luck?

Your toast lands butter side down. Your bus leaves without you. And over your head, a number: your luck. Zero. Then one night it starts to climb. A thousand. Infinite. Every light turns green. Every ticket wins. A plane lands on a motorway and nobody spills a drink. But luck isn't made. It's moved. And somebody has been paying for all of yours, starting with your best friend, and your mum. 0:00 Zero luck 0:41 How the numbers work 1:09 Day one 1:44 The lottery 2:12 The plane 2:35 The rooftop 2:55 The newspaper test 3:19 Where it comes from 3:45 One dry street 4:31 Mum is a three 4:57 The flood 5:12 The old man 6:09 Heads or tails 6:39 Tails 7:03 One 7:48 Page two The real science: • Richard Wiseman (University of Hertfordshire) asked people to count the photographs in a newspaper. Unlucky people took about two minutes; lucky people took seconds, because they noticed the message on page two saying there were 43 (The Luck Factor, 2003) • The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million • Your lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 15,300 (NOAA) If you had infinite luck, and you knew who was paying for it, how long would you keep it? Tell me in the comments.