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Selecting Lottery Numbers by...
THE CARDS
Take a pack of cards and give it a good shuffle. Take a card at
random. Any card. Turn this into a lottery number by this method:
1. Take the number of the card; ace=1, 2=2, 3=3 ... 10=10, jack=11,
queen=12, king=13.
2. Add 13 if it's a club, 26 if it's a diamond, or 39 if it's a
spade.
3. This is your first number, unless it's the jack/queen/king of
spades, in which case it's not a good omen for entering the
lottery this week, so you might decide to leave it!
4. Repeat the method for the other five numbers.
Star quality: The neat card-trick principle.
Variations: Take the jack/queen/king of spades out of the pack
first, or ignore them if they are drawn. Incidentally, on
selecting six numbers using a full pack, the probability is
almost exactly 30% that one or more of them will be one of those
cards.
Also see other things to do with playing cards. Some more serious gambling is available at the GAMBLING PAGE