WAS IT "LUCK?"
Possibly in this case the facts may have been slightly adorned in the process of time, but there is more ground for credence in an instance reco7-ded in Proctor's "Chance and Luck." A wager of 1000 guineas to on© guinea that seven could not be thrown with a pair of dice 10 successive times was
accepted, and, marvellous to relate, that number was thrown nine times Tunning., At tins point the wagerer offered • 470 guineas to be off his bet, i>ut his i opponent declined, and threw another seven. ' According to Proctor, the fair odds against even nine successive throws of seven would have been 40,GC0 sr.uineas.to a farthing. "But when nine throws of seven had been ma do in succession the chance of a tenth was simply what it had been at the first throw—one-.<;ixth." It is to be presumed that in this case f,he maker of the bet took, the precaution of examining his opponent's peculiarly persistent' dice.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8850, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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WAS IT "LUCK?"
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8850, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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