Bingo is a game of luck and in a world that is still surprisingly very superstitious; players believe that some numbers are luckier for them than others. The reasons behind this are not clear but they are thought to be linked to childhood events or are even influenced by popular culture. For example the number 7 is thought to be lucky in western culture and it is also the number of the day that god rested after he was satisfied with the Earth that he had created. In Judaism, there are 7 heavens and this emphasis on 7 being a number that represents satisfaction and completeness has been burnt into our subconscious - check out Lucky Spell Slot. Even the fictional character James Bond is agent 007 and he has come out of many near death situations unscathed. The chances are that if you ask a stranger on the streets to pick a lucky number, they will pick 7 too. In fact, this has filtered down to bingo players and many punters deliberately choose to buy tickets that include the number 7 in them. You may be surprised to discover that bingo numbers feature quite regularly in popular culture. Film and TV has featured numbers in hit movies and TV shows. Some narratives of movies actually revolve around the lottery instead of bingo, but the numbers also relate to bingo too. Better Call Saul is actually the hit spin off from Breaking Bad and there is a wonderfully comic scene where lawyer Saul Goodman takes a bingo ball calling to another dimension of darkness. On a lighter note, Hotel Transylvania has a superbly inventive montage involving bingo that is played by the ghoulish inhabitants of this fun kids animation. Lost my have literally got lost in time, but not long ago it was one of the biggest series on the planet. It aired between 2004 and 2010 and number sequences featured heavily in the narrative. It was later discovered that these numbers from the show became the most sort after numbers on bingo cards at bingo venues across the world. Forgotten actor John Travolta starred in the Nora Ephron 2000 effort called lucky numbers and the plot revolved around a weatherman for WTPA Channel 6 news falling on financial hard times. His solution to his difficulties was to pull off a lottery scam using so called “lucky numbers’ and these again influenced bingo players in America. Ben Affleck is actually a highly skilled Blackjack player in real life, but in the action movie Paycheck, it’s the lottery and time travelling, that take center stage. Here the plot revolves around a time traveller leaving himself the winning lottery numbers. Nicholas Cage used to be one of the biggest actors in Hollywood, until he decided he needed to star in every screenplay that landed on his desk. In It Could Happen To You, he plays a cop that shares his winnings with a waitress and here the lucky lottery numbers are 6, 12, 16, 27, 48 and 64.Lucky Bingo Numbers From Film and TV
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