> > > Another option might be having the ability to be very lucky when necessary.
> > > This could last my whole life and could be used in Vegas,
> >
> > I wouldn't trust a wish like that to a genie that likes unintended consequences... what would the genie consider to be "necessary"?
> > (Hint: I suspect it wouldn't include trips to Vegas.)
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > PS. There was, I've just remembered, another recent X-File in which there was a guy who was always lucky, but tried to avoid situations where his luck came into play because they always resulted in someone else being very *un*lucky.
>
> So as not to leave that subjectiveness to someone else, I'd be more specific. I'd say something like "My propensity for luck will increase by 1000 times when I cross my middle finger over my index finger of the same hand." That way it would truly be only when I will it to be so.
>
> Tranio
>
> p.s.: I remember that episode; in fact, it came to mind when I was thinking about this.

Good luck or bad? Long term or short? With or without causing adverse consequences for others? (And desired ones or not!) Intentional crossings only, or any crossings?

gab"What if you were kidnapped in Las Vegas (for making so much money!) and the kidnappers bound your hands in such a way as to cross these fingers? Then, since you're lucky and they're not, they shoot at you but miss and kill each other, so no one knows where you are, and no one can find you."by