Every year researchers just can’t help themselves, but they have to discover what name the luckiest bingo players have, where they live and what the most prominent lucky number is. These release some interesting if somewhat odd results and they are great fun to read. I believe there is a real purpose behind doing these surveys, but it is fun to know the results and if these questions ever come up in your bingo pub or trivia quiz, you will at least know the answers.
For example if your name is Debbie, you live in Harrogate, Yorkshire and seven is your lucky number, you may be the luckiest bingo player in the entire British Isles. A couple of years ago this was Margaret from Edinburgh, Scotland! It doesn’t surprise me that 7 has come up as the luckiest number, if you conduct a bit of research on your own into this number, you will see that through history it has been meaningful in many ways. The next luckiest towns are Falkirk and Berwick upon Tweed and this data has been gleaned from a survey of 1 300 people regarding their attitudes to luck, and from the many thousands of members of mega bingo brand Mecca.
It found that in general the luck in the north of the country is better than in the south and again it is the luck of the Scots and not the Irish which comes up trumps. In terms of celebrities, Simon Cowell was found to be the luckiest (or is it the most talented?), while Katie Price’s ex husband Alex Reid was the unluckiest (perhaps he disagrees!). In the majority men with the name Steve are luckier than others and the unluckiest place in the British Isles to live is Bath.
In absolute contrast to the ideology that the Scots are tight with a penny, there were found to be the most giving, and they donate far more of their bingo winnings to family, friends or charity.
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