Winner Adjacent

When I got on the good ship “Psychic Adventure”, I did not think myself psychically adept. Although I am far from adept, I have become more aware of events that may have more of a psychic nature than coincidence or inductive reasoning would explain.

I do not win things. On average, I will win one raffle or contest a decade. I do not often win games either which is kind of a bummer since my family are game players. After a raffle event where everyone at my, albeit, small table won something but me, I decided to pay closer attention at future raffle events.

I attended holiday dinner conversing with the three people closest to me but had no contact with the other three farther down the table. At the end of dinner, it was time for the raffles to be called. I calculated that there were a total of seventy people, give-or-take, and eleven possible prizes. I turned to my neighbor and said “I want to let you know that I am a winner adjacent. I will not win but there is a good chance you will.” and she did.

Of the eleven prizes, four were won by the other six people at my table. I also noted that some of the numbers called were one or two digits off from my number though the winner was not at my table. So one-tenth of the room got 28% of the prizes while others having numbers similar to mine got prizes, too. I’m no math whiz, but this seemed statistically significant. I notified John Kruth of the Rhine Institute since I had been a test subject of his in the past. He agrees that this is a significant effect, especially since it wasn’t a one off. I also couldn’t see how this was either coincidence or inductive reasoning on my part so how did it happen? Was it micro- psychokinesis? Had I some kind of effect on the tickets that were drawn? I can’t imagine it was precognition since the concentration of winners was near me and I hadn’t figured out who was to win throughout the room in a less concentrated fashion.

I know there are small experiments going on having to do with games of chance and psychokinesis. The casinos in Las Vegas feel those experimenters are successful enough to ban them from their premises. Have they done anything with passing on “the luck”? Not that I’m aware of, but I’d be happy to participate in any experiment that will pay my way to Vegas :P.