Chinese-speaking cultures
If eight prospers, eighty-eight prospers twice, and the doubling is taken seriously enough to price property and telephone numbers.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Chinese-speaking cultures
If eight prospers, eighty-eight prospers twice, and the doubling is taken seriously enough to price property and telephone numbers.
Naples
The Smorfia is characteristically unimpressed: eighty-eight is the caciocavallo cheeses.
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Cultural interest — does not change your odds.
What the machines actually did with 88, across every lottery this site holds a long record for.
Across 1 lottery that holds an 88, its average deviation from expectation is −0.40σ. Statistically ordinary, everywhere. (4 of the games do not go that high.)
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.