Can Your Luck Trump That Of Domino’s?

Commonly known as Neena Thurman, Domino is one of the luckiest characters in the world of fiction, if not the luckiest. The scope of her powers is purely based on her intent, i.e., they would stop working if she placed herself in danger by her conviction. In this article, we will look at Domino’s luckiest moments, and then discuss the possibility of some “lucky” events that have happened or could theoretically happen.

Bio

Domino is ‘created’ as part of Project Armageddon, a government-sanctioned breeding program to create the perfect weapon. Her powers are known more commonly as ‘probability manipulation.’ Put simply, she could do something that will almost always affect probability in her favour. The key takeaway, though, is that she has to take action for her powers to materialize.

Cat with Nine Lives

Things happen to Domino all the time, yet she always finds herself alive and unscathed most of the time. From the time when she was let go by Deadpool’s sword, saved from imminent death at Cable’s hand, or, in a dark turn of events, forced to kill her own mother to save her brother, the omnipotent Lazarus. Her luck powers might be double-edged, but at least it keeps her alive.

Now, it has never appeared in the comics or the films if Domino has ever tried out her luck in a casino. But, you can try it out right now to see if you are as lucky as her when it comes to betting!

Can we be as lucky as Domino?

As far as our scientific research goes, humans do not have the capacity to manipulate probability in our favor, some of us would statistically ‘win’ more than others simply because they take certain actions that other do not. Let’s take a look at the luckiest people ever documented, as well as the odds of certain things in our daily life.

The luckiest people ever recorded

While our luck cannot be measured or recorded, the simplest way to depict one’s luckiness is often made by one’s lottery winnings. Take Bill Morgan, an Australian who was declared dead for 14 minutes before coming back to life. Felt like he had cheated death, Morgan bought a 5-dollar scratch card and won a car worth almost thirty thousand dollars. In a video now widely revered as an urban legend, Morgan was asked by the local media to reenact himself buying that scratch card, after which he won a quarter of a million dollars.

The odds of winning a car and the jackpot in two successive attempts are roughly calculated to be 1 in 36 billion.

How likely am I to…

• Share a birthday with someone in a room of fifty people: 1 in 12
• Get into Harvard University: 1 in 20
• Roll the same number on two dice: 1 in 36
• Be diagnosed with a brain tumor: 1 in 100
• Die from a car accident in the USA: 1 in 102
• Make it as a professional…
  • Hockey player: 1 in 598
  • Baseball player: 1 in 659
  • Football player: 1 in 4,233
  • Soccer player: 1 in 5,769
  • Basketball player: 1 in 11,7713

The unlikeliest yet simplest thing to happen is to shuffle a deck of 52 cards twice and get the same exact order. You have a 1 in 80 unvigintillion chance of doing so; that is 80 with sixty-six zeroes behind it. Simply put, you have to shuffle a decks of 52 cards around 60 million times every year since the beginning of the universe to even have a chance to achieve such a feat.

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