Italy
Where the north fears thirteen, Italy fears seventeen. The reason is a Roman pun: XVII rearranges to VIXI — “I have lived”, and therefore, on a tomb, “I am dead”.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Italy
Where the north fears thirteen, Italy fears seventeen. The reason is a Roman pun: XVII rearranges to VIXI — “I have lived”, and therefore, on a tomb, “I am dead”.
Naples
The Smorfia agrees: seventeen is la disgrazia, misfortune.
Smorfia napoletana'A disgraziamisfortune
Cultural interest — does not change your odds.
What the machines actually did with 17, across every lottery this site holds a long record for.
Across 5 lotteries that hold a 17, its average deviation from expectation is +0.22σ. Statistically ordinary, everywhere.
The one thing a belief about a number can measurably do is change how many people play it — and a jackpot shared more ways is worth less to each winner. That is the only real consequence, and it is arithmetic rather than folklore.