My octogenarian mother is an occasional gambler and firm believer in luck. In years gone by, when slot machines still accepted coins, she would chill her stash in the freezer before setting off to er… break the bank, maintaining that ice-cold money would somehow alter the functioning of the machine and change the odds in her favour. Naturally, I told her that the theory was completely nuts.
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