The Fantasy of Trees finished on Sunday and the raffle draws were done on Monday. As part of the team, there is lots of careful work - making sure all the tickets are out of the holder, stirring them up, a second person picking one ticket, the auditor watches to ensure no looking at numbers. The auditor receives the ticket, then gives the ticket to the caller - my role - who calls out the number, then the look-up person who makes a match in the lottery record book, the win recorder, the runner who takes the information to the telephone callers, who make the call - You've won!
It's a lot, isn't it? I didn't win anything. I had lots of help putting tickets into trees and items- by various children of people I know who promised to take away the toys or chocolate decorations.
Such excellent odds of winning something, too. So it got me thinking about Frank Selak, who we've read about before - he's listed as the luckiest man in the world. Actually he is known as the luckiest and unluckiest together.
"Frano Selak, a Croatian man, miraculously cheated death seven times before eventually winning the lottery. Frane Selak, of Croatia, has a reputation as the world's luckiest man. Frane Selak, an elderly Croatian man, is known around the world for being the luckiest man alive."
HERE's the full Wikipedia entry. Note that none of his depictions of life and death events are verified. But he did win the lottery at 73, so that with his strange saga of death events has elevated him to the luckiest/unluckiest person in the world.
But really, we just looking at raffles and lotteries. But the stories here are about people who hacked the system, beat the system or one that big powerball lottery in California - the one that is over $1 billion.
"The largest gathering of lottery millionaires is 110 and was achieved by The National Lottery (UK), in London, UK, on 7 October 2015."
My guess is that Frank stays in the retrievals because of the novel story of life and death and lottery win. Tracking multiple winners would likely make the gambling and lottery world jittery. Gambling is considered a problem behaviour in humans. Cheating and hacking the system seems to come with it and would be something we simple lottery players don't want to find out.
The Fantasy of Trees takes place at the Grimsby Museum each year. This is the Museum entrance with Santa - taken a few years ago.
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