# Truly MPSIMS, What's your lucky # and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492 "2002-03-28T01:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kybrdbrkn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kybrdbrkn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kybrdbrkn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/21 "2002-03-28T21:45:01Z")
Woo-hoo! My first double post! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/22 "2002-03-28T22:30:10Z")
For the old “pick a number, 1 - 10”, my favorite number is 4. I had some trivia book as a kid that said that most people’s favorite number between one and ten is three, and then seven follows closely in terms of popularity. I decided I needed to have a non-common favorite number, so I went with 4. Favorite number in general is 11 – which is of course Gilbert Perreault’s jersey number. The entire family uses this. My little brother once made a killing at roulette by playing the French Connection’s jersey numbers. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/23 "2002-03-28T23:11:22Z")
My lucky number? It’s the cardinality of the monster group, printed [here](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MonsterGroup.html). When you look at it, you’ll understand why I didn’t want to type it in. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/24 "2002-03-28T23:24:49Z")
1. If you want to know why, read _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/25 "2002-03-28T23:50:14Z")
Either… 13 - Because everybody hates it and I felt sorry for it. or 3 - It has a story that goes back to elementary school. The story involves gym and spiders, and I don’t really feel like explaining it. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/26 "2002-03-28T23:52:42Z")
kybrd, I know it up to 3. 14159265358979323846264338327950288 then i gave up.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/27 "2002-03-29T01:13:29Z")
5, for no reason whatsoever. And my application # that’s in the works at UW-Madison is 40042. That seems really lucky too. ---
**Author:** ![Novus\_Opiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Novus\_Opiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novus_Opiate)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/28 "2002-03-29T01:26:44Z")
11 - When I first started playing hockey a friend of mine kept calling me Cam, as in Cam Neely. So, I started wearing the ol’ double 1’s. (I like to think I was called Cam because of playing style, but alas, it was probably just due to facial similarity… and my raging hockey haircut 😃 ) Novus ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/29 "2002-03-29T05:41:53Z")
37 38/39 ---
**Author:** ![MarkyDeSade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@MarkyDeSade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkyDeSade)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/30 "2002-03-29T06:17:40Z")
1. Why? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/31 "2002-03-29T07:46:18Z")
666 because of this weird birthmark on my head… ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/32 "2002-03-29T08:46:38Z")
27 Because I played that number at a carnival game when I was in High School, and I won!:eek: I bag of Hershies Kisses! YAY! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492/33 "2002-03-29T15:19:44Z")
#5, or any group of numbers containing a 5. OR numbers like 23 that add up to 5… All my best things happen on 5’s. And Angkin’s bday is 5/5 too [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mpsims-whats-your-lucky-and-why/100492.md?page=1)