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ITEMS IN THE BATHROOM
This is a method ideally suited
to bathrooms with a large number of small ceramic tiles. Take a
washable felt tipped pen into the bathroom and choose any six
tiles anywhere on a wall. That's the easy bit. Now, converting
the positions of the unnumbered tiles into numbers. Nominate a
corner. The bottom left corner for preference, or the top left
corner as a good second choice. Count how many across a marked
tile is from the corner. Count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1,2,3,4
etc. Now count, in the same style, how many up (or down) the tile
is. You now have two numbers, (the x and y coordinates mod 7 +1,
to be mathematical about it). Take the second number, multiply by
7, add the first number, subtract 7, and you have a lottery
number - which is not bad considering it was an unnumbered tile
in the bathroom in the first place. The same procedure for the
other five marked tiles and there's the six numbers in the range
1-49.
Star quality: It's much easier to pick a random tile than it is
to pick a random number. It's not loaded with numerical meaning
and doubt.
Drawbacks: "Take the second number, multiply it by seven,
add the first number, and subtract seven". Too complex for
some!