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¿Question #3127?
puffinge: Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky in games? Please support your answer.

Jrtolf: Unlucky. No.
pricero1: I'm an optimist, which equates to lucky in my book.
ricardofo: unlucky. I prefer strategy games with little influence of random factors
Blott: Very unlucky.
Spirit of 70: Neither.
xofour: unskilled, average luckiness.
beerbear: Dice hate my guts.
Riptcord: I don't tend to play many games where luck is an overriding factor, but I am lucky when I do.
spayne: lucky, 1+1=3
hob69: Kind of unlucky, I guess, but it's also a question of experience and strategy. I tend to hesitate too much, and, as Alexander is meant to have said, fortune favours the bold.
hannibal twin 8: Unlucky. Support: I get bad dice rolls sometimes.
Sidewynnder: Unlucky. I am not saying I do bad, but a lot of times I will be doing well and out of fear the other players will gang up on me...
adamknight: Unlucky. It is so not my fault I lose all the time. It's that Alex, he reads the rules and works out a strategy. I should have more luck finding opponents I can beat.
Geosmores: unlucky I rarely win even when luck is involved
Nef_: My luck has nothing to do with how I do in board games. How I do in board games is dependant on if I have my lucky purple rock and whether or not I'm wearing my lucky purple snake bracelet.
ZiggyZambo: Lucky. Based on my research, my intelligence and attentiveness at the gaming table should only allow me to win in a five player game of my most common gaming partners 23.2% of the time. Experience, however, has shown my win percentage under these circumstances to be 24.35%.
bigbadsteve: lately, unlucky. i cant seem to get a decent die roll to save my life
ufemism: I often lose games, but that doesn't make me unlucky OR lucky. The fact that I lose often has more to do with my skill level, the level of my opponents, the mechanics of the game and wether or not I have my lucky rabbit's foot in my pocket.
jeffwolfe: I am neither lucky nor unlucky. Luck averages out over time. Thus, Las Vegas.
DHEK: I don't consider myself lucky or unlucky, because I don't believe in the concept of luck.
Decorius: Lucky, because I am playing.
themagni: Luck is preparation and opportunity.
POvidiusNaso: Both at various times.
Wes Robiinson: Neither
the_plumster: yes
ben21: Depends on the day. And i dont want to support it
Lars Vogt: No
GornTC: Neither. Luck is only in the mind; it cannot be measured.
Nekura: During my run through True Dungeon Hardcore this year, I cheated Death with a critical hit, then took down the biggest monster with only the help of our bard. I'm pretty freakin' lucky...
moyet: Neither.
FrozenHoHos: Depends on the day. More often lucky. I refuse to support this.
brainrob: Yes - I once rolled eight "ones" in a row in a game of Railway Rivals
mrspank: A little bit of both.
Zen Postman: I'm lucky to have such games to play.
jasta6: Unlucky... I'm not lucky enough to have time to play as much as I'd like.... But when I play it depends on the game that day. Luck is relative, there are times you can make your own luck or set yourself up for a unlucky out come. Like the convention game I was late for. Got into a WW2 Russian vs. German game and Being last, I was given the Russian infantry in the woods in an ARMOR dominate game. My moral broke, and I spent the next 6 hours trying to get them back into the game. Now that was unlucky!
TheDS: geez... Another non-stupid question, and I even have to THINK about it! Are you feeling ok? Anyway, I'd have to say it's about even. It goes all over the place. I had games where I was clearly winning, then thanks to SEVERAL bad dice throws in a row, I suddenly lost. I also can't break even at any kind of poker. But there are other times when I get long periods of slightly better than average results, or something just good enough to win. But in life in general I've been reasonably lucky (not rich-lucky, just avoidance of disaster-lucky), so I'm quite happy to trade some bad luck in games for good luck in life.
mlanza: Unlucky only in dice-rolling games, but that's quackery. I used to play Risk and despite overwhelming odds in my favor too many 1s and 2s caused routs.
Cavedog_pdx: I lead a charmed life.
confuse_a_cat: I'm either really lucky or really unlucky. If I have a 1-in-100 chance to get a satisfactory result, I will get it. If I have the same chance to fail miserably, I will fail. This is most obvious in Risk, when I've held off armies of fifteen with a single army, or lost with my fifteen against their one.
Kyleroconnor: neither, either skilled or unskilled depending on game
KDSN: Unlucky
mgoddard: Lucky. The dice don't lie.
BiscuitTheCat: meh
Tennantgamer: Unlucky, for instance I have rolled more critical failures than the rest of my party (10 people) have combined.
davedanger: hahahahaha all the Huns massed by me in a Wall of CHina Settlers game.................
AbeLincoln: unlucky. a year and a half losing streak. A YEAR AND A HALF!!!!! documented.
vetinari7878: There is no luck. "There's just what happens, and what we do."
chrisisapimp: i got mad luck
Unitbuster: Unlucky. In monopoly I've landed on other people's properties 7 times in my first seven rolls. Then I passed go and landed on income tax. I rest my case.
Otterdance: On average more lucky than unlucky. I'm pretty good at games but the luck helps sometimes. As they say "You'll never beat the Bond."
scriptorum: Neither, although against one buddy I've outdiced him so often he refuses to play Memoir 44 with me again. But against this same guy in Hammer of the Scots I rolled three sets of three dice and found 6/6/6, 6/6/6, 6/6/5. Retreat! Regroup!
Regault: unlucky. My dicerolling stinks.
archduke: I am lucky to get to play games, but not always the luckiest while playing them.
GrandpaDave: Beating me in Monopoly
ValJor: Unlucky. Dice hate me. Cards are not much better
Great Dane: Neither. I rarely win, and I know it is because I don't play well.
Lord_Prussian: I don't consider myself either. Luck is what it is.
deadkenny: Unlucky - e.g. zero 'hits' on 40 die rolls in a block game
2amp: unlucky, my dice rolls are legendary
darthcliff: Unlucky. I can't win a game to save my life.
djlg: Average luck. As it should be. Supported by Occum's Razer.
bluebehir: I consider myself lucky in the use of six sided dice.
shotokanguy: There is no such thing as a personal trait of luck. Luck is just a word we use to explain the unpredictable nature of the universe.
snoozefest: lucky; dice do what I tell them more often than I'd expect from probability alone; d6 only, though
CortexBomb: With dice I consider myself horribly unlucky because in dice heavy war games without mitigating factors such as Risk I always get my ass handed to me by bad die rolls
chaddyboy_2000: Luck tends to spread out evenly. Unless you're Ryan Johnson trying to play a dice game.
CDRodeffer: I'm not as lucky as I'd like to be, because if I were, I'd get to play more often.
skelebone: I do not define myself as lucky nor unlucky.
jttm: I am skilled. Although its probably better to be lucky than good.
Tim Synge: It depends ...
Spielfreak: If there are dice, then I'm unlucky.
puffinge: I claim to lean toward unlucky, but not horribly so. I once had to roll 3 dice in a game of Titan. Anything but 3 ones would be successful. Care to guess what I rolled?