The Totally Unscientific Luck Test
Zero science, seven questions, one official ruling on whether the universe likes you.
Nothing about this quiz is scientific. No control group, no lab coats, no peer review. We asked zero experts and they said nothing, which we took as agreement. What remains is seven questions and a feeling.
Luck cannot be measured, so we are going to measure it anyway. Think back over your history with parking spots, coin flips, and vending machines, then answer honestly. At the end you receive a verdict somewhere between walking rain cloud and horseshoe human, and it will be exactly as accurate as it sounds.
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Inspect the scoring, question by question
The highest possible score here is 21. The original game divides scores into 4 bands; the bands contain different numbers of answer combinations. A high point total is not a measured percentile.
1. A vending machine drops two snacks instead of one. Sound familiar?
- Never, but I once watched it happen to someone else — 1 original points
- Familiar. Machines love me — 3 original points
- Mine gets stuck, then falls for the next person — 0 original points
- Happened once. I still bring it up — 2 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
2. Describe your relationship with parking spots.
- I circle until the event I came for is over — 0 original points
- Short search, decent spot, no complaints — 2 original points
- One opens up in front of the door. Every time — 3 original points
- Third floor of the garage, ramp side — 1 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
3. A coin flip decides dinner tonight. Your lifetime record?
- Slightly above even, which I consider a lifestyle — 2 original points
- It once landed on its edge and rolled into a drain — 0 original points
- I lose, but only when it matters — 1 original points
- The coin wants what I want — 3 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
4. The office raffle has forty tickets. Honest expectations?
- I'll win the prize nobody wanted — 1 original points
- They'll cancel the raffle the year I finally enter — 0 original points
- Decent odds. I've won small stuff before — 2 original points
- Already planning where the prize goes — 3 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
5. You're running late. What does the universe do?
- Green lights the whole way, and the meeting starts late too — 3 original points
- One mystery detour appears out of nowhere — 1 original points
- Rain begins the moment my door locks behind me — 0 original points
- Normal traffic. I arrive humanly late — 2 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
6. Which charm would you actually carry?
- Lucky socks, worn strictly on important days — 2 original points
- None. I am the charm — 3 original points
- A four-leaf clover, laminated, just in case — 1 original points
- No charm can fix what's happening to me — 0 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
7. When did you last find money on the ground?
- I have only ever found gum — 0 original points
- Last week. It happens so often I budget for it — 3 original points
- A crumpled bill last year. Great day — 2 original points
- A coin once, in a fountain, and I put it back — 1 original points
These are the archived game’s option weights. Partial credit is a game rule, not a clinical or population measurement.
What happens across every possible answer pattern?
We counted all 16,384 patterns, treating each offered choice as equally likely. This is a synthetic rule check, not visitor research. It does not describe how real people answer.
| Result | Patterns | Share of patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Walking Rain Cloud | 323 | 1.97% |
| Coin Flip Citizen | 7,869 | 48.03% |
| Quietly Fortunate | 7,456 | 45.51% |
| Horseshoe Human | 736 | 4.49% |
Download the full counts · Download Python script · Download rule inputs
To reproduce locally: python3 measure_legacy.py --input legacy-rule-inputs.json --output counts.json. Uses Python 3 and its standard library.
A miracle a month, mathematically
The Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood offered a tidy piece of arithmetic about surprise. Define a miracle as an event with a one-in-a-million chance. Assume a person is alert and taking in events at something like one a second, for around eight hours a day. That comes to roughly a million events a month, so the average person should expect a miracle at about that rate, purely by counting.
The point is not that wonders are cheap. It is that we register the hit and never tally the misses. Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller gave the formal version in a 1989 paper on coincidences: given a large enough number of opportunities, any specified outrageous thing becomes likely to happen somewhere, to somebody. Lotteries produce repeat winners because millions of people buy tickets over and over, not because those particular people are charmed.
Twenty-three people in a room
The standard demonstration involves birthdays. Ask how many people you need in a room before it is more likely than not that two of them share a date, and most people guess well over a hundred. The answer is twenty-three. The trick is that you are not comparing yourself against everyone else; you are comparing every possible pair, and pairs multiply far faster than heads do.
Once that clicks, everyday luck starts to look different. A run of good mornings is not a signal about anything. Streaks are what random sequences genuinely look like, and it would be far stranger if they never appeared.
The clover is botany, not a judgement
White clover normally produces three leaflets. The four-leaflet form arises from a tendency that is largely recessive and is nudged along by growing conditions, which is why a patch that yields one will often yield several and why people who find them tend to keep finding them. The frequently quoted odds of about one in five thousand come from counting exercises and vary enormously from patch to patch.
So the honest reading is that anyone who finds one was looking carefully at a promising patch. This quiz works on the same principle: no science at all, seven questions, and a ruling delivered with total confidence and no basis whatsoever. Enjoy the verdict. Do not plan around it.
Reading context & limits
For background and a fuller source trail, read Why Personality Quiz Results Feel So Accurate. These references provide context; they do not validate the entertainment result or every historical detail in the archived essay.
Content lead: LISA. Updated October 25, 2026. Send a specific factual correction.