8 | 6Īpparently there’s a cologne called Lucky Number 6 by Liz Claiborne. Number 2 finishing this high is like the “Yao Ming in the All-Star Game even though he’s averaging 4 and 2” of the lucky numbers list. (I mean, um, not in their own elections… but in online polls they’re ravenous.) Since this was a worldwide survey, it’s entirely possible that’s how 2 made it so high on the list - no one pounds a ballot box like the Chinese. You’ll be with me on this if you read my 11 Astonishing Facts About the Number 11.īut as THE world’s foremost supporter of the concept that top 10s are for cowards, 11 making the top 10 has sent me into a recursive loop of pride and shame.Ģ is kind of an odd choice for a lucky number, although apparently it’s good luck in China. 10 | 11Īs one of the world’s foremost supporters of the number 11, I’m proud it finished so well. Depending on where your perspective lies, you either attributed 42’s success to either Hitchhiker’s Guide or Jackie Robinson. This is the second-largest number in the top 30 (69 came in 30th, to demonstrate the strength of the world’s pervert voting bloc). These are the 11 most popular lucky numbers in the world… 11 | 42 I pulled out the top 11 and loosely reasoned out why they’re popular. The result compile a list of the luckiest numbers in the world that we’ll discuss here because who knows, you’ll probably win big in life after reading this article. And as if that wasn’t enough, he also analyzed the frequency of winning lottery numbers and examined superstitions and cultural beliefs surrounding certain numbers. because Americans Love Puns.Īlex ran a 30,000-person worldwide survey to see which numbers people considered to be lucky.

I’m not sure how much he’d appreciate that, so here’s a plug: His book is called Alex Through the Looking Glass in the U.K. Side note: 11 made it, but not in 11th place.Ī British author named Alex Bellos recently put out a book on lucky numbers and while I didn’t read it - books, am I right? - I DID read the results of a study he put out. A study found the 11 luckiest numbers in the world, and I speculate on why the numbers cracked the list.

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