Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath
because he knows the time is short
Let him who hath understanding
reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number
its number is six hundred and sixty six.

That’s a pretty rocking start for the number 6 I think you’ll agree.

Eddie, the quintessential masscot of one Britian's greatest heavy metal bands.

Buddhism
The six means of perfection or transcendent Virtues of the Buddhist: the patience, the charity, the energy, the wisdom or the science, the contemplation or the charity, the virtue or the purity.

Road Trips
It conjoins with itself to make a double 66 that is awesomely historical in middle America. Class road trip stuff.

Routte 66

The Number 6 as a Google search

The sexy number six:

Smokin’ Hot ‘Number Six’ Tricia Helfer to speak at NVISION 08

Tricia Selfer. Smoking hot at number six on some site or another

• Prime Factors of 6=2×3.
• 6 is a Perfect Number.
• 6 is a Centered Pentagonal Number.
• 6 is a Triangular Number.
• 6 is a Hexagonal Number.
• 6 is a Schröder Number.
• 6 is an Octahedral Number.
• 6 is a Pentagonal Pyramidal Number.

7 is a classic gambling number, commonly associated with slot machines such as Triple 7 Inferno. It’s also the age of all people one year older that 6 (ok, that factoid was a little contrived).

The lucky number 7

So why do people revere the number 7 so much? Is it based on religion, or superstition, or mythology? Or was it just forced upon us by the people who invented gambling? Let’s find out…

The quick facts:

• The most common combination when rolling two dice; in Craps or Yahtzee (if you lose 3 dice)
• There are 7 colors in a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
• A week contains 7 days
• The seven dwarfs
• The seven deadly sins
• The seven seas
• The seven sisters
• 7 wonders of the world; including the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canyon
• The neutral pH value between acidity and alkalinity
• Seven days of Creation. On the 8th day, God created Rock n’ Roll (Kiss circa 1992)
• The number 7 symbolizes “togetherness”. It is a lucky number for relationships. It is also recognized as the luckiest number in the west, and is one of the rare numbers that is great in China and the west.
• A cool movie “Seven” starring Brad Pitt (love the way he points the gun at Kevin Spacey at the end).

The quirky facts:

• The number of spots on a common ladybug (called a ladybird in the U.K.)
• The number of holes in most mammals’ heads (weird)
• Windows 7, the upcoming Microsoft operating system sometimes referred to as just “7″ – what are the chances of it actually working?
• The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary. Hmm, how much joy could she have really had, giving birth without even enjoying sex!
• In Egypt cats are said to have 7 lives as opposed to the western culture legend of cats having 9 lives.
• The number seven is not Lucky in all cultures, for instance in Chinese the number seven is not Lucky at all and is sometimes considered unlucky. This is why Boeing Aircraft Co. did not sell a lot of 777s to the Chinese.

So, there you go. The number 7 is officially weird and wonderful.

You’d better go and place a 7 dollar bet on the number 7 on 7 roulette tables at once.

One is by definition… Lonely

Just the one ticket please...

But what other factoids can I bring to light to spur you into action?

Well as it happens the number 1 has a remarkable history.

The History of One

• It’s the first number ever!! Only by the fact that at one time there was only one living creature
• It resemble the posh usage of talking about “oneself”
• It’s the starting point for asking for one more beer, hence making one it of the most commonly learned phrases in the English dictionary by foreigners
• Here are some of the career choices that might suit you particularly well if the number 1 is predominant in your chart:
  Entrepreneur, leader, manager, business person, inventor, scientist, ideally you should be your own boss
• It’s the biggest club in your golf bag

Celebrity birthdays

• Grand Master Flash (1958)
• J. Edgar Hoover born on January 1, 1895
• Princess Stephanie of Monaco born on February 1, 1965
• Lisa Marie Presley born on February 1, 1968
• Pauly Shore born on February 1, 1968
• Ron Howard born on March 1, 1954

Spiritual Meaning

One: One primarily deals with strong will, positivity, pure energy. The number One reflects new beginnings, and purity. The symbolic meaning of number One is further clarified when we understand One represents both kinds of action: physical and mental. This combined with Ones urgency for new beginnings, we begin to see Ones recurring in our lives indicates a time to exert our natural forces, take action, and start a new venture. One encourages us our action will be rewarded in kind.

Don't go out in the woods today, Jason is still alive and well...

After that dramatic entrance, I promise to stop using parenthesis to counter argue my point (perhaps).

Misquoting Wikipedia slightly, “the number thirteen is the.. number after 12 and before 14″. A remarkable insight.

Getting to the point, 13 is unlucky, here’s a few ways that people try to avoid the number 13:

1. High rise buildings don’t have a 13th floor (although John Malkevic might have the answer to that
2. Friday the 13th makes some people nervous and walk faster down dark streets
3. 13 is the ages at which kids become teenagers – ripe for a slaughtering from Jason
4. Napoleon Bonaparte feared cats (ailurophobia) and the number 13
5. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia – sounds Russian to me
6. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners. So you should put an end to showing up fashionably late for your next dinner party
7. An estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day
8. There will be 3 occurrences of the number 13 in this year: 2009
9. It may be the most widespread superstition in the United States

Essentially though, it has the exact random level of occurrence as every other number on the Roulette wheel.

Famous brave People with connections to the Number 13:

• Branca, a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, wore no. 13 and, as legend has it, playfully posed with black cats before the 1951 playoffs began
• Wilt Chamberlain said the number 13 wasn’t unlucky for him, but it was for his opponents. One of the greatest players in the game, he is the only player to score 100 points in a single game. He was named to 13 All-Star teams and his number 13 has been retired by five teams (University of Kansas, Golden State Warriors, Harlem Globetrotters, Los Angeles Lakers, and Philadelphia 76ers)
• Dan Marino, quarterback of the Miami Dolphins wore the number 13
• A-Rod seems to be getting the lucky end of the luckometer, dating (shsssh) Madonna. That’s a home run in my opinion
• The Aztecs also hold the number thirteen sacred and divided their week into thirteen days.  Each day is ruled by a god.  The thirteenth day is ruled by Tezcatlipoca, who represents: Mystery, Psyche, Illusion and Magic. Maybe he could use some of that magic to win Casino Games

When playing Roulette, I see people scramble to nervously place chips on the number 13, and in a small psychologic momentum of sheep-ism, lots of others quickly dump their chips their too, trying to suck up the luck of the original brave soul. It’s something you have to try just to see if it brings you any luck.

News 13 are guranteeing your scariest number! Cash on demand. Try it out and see if your luck is in today. (News 13 Image)

Some quick stats:

• 13 is an odd number
• Doctors in the U.K. discovered that despite attempts to drive less, there were more car accidents that on Friday the 6th than on Friday the 13th
• The medical term for a phobia of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia

A Roulette Strategy

So my suggest to you would be to try it. Pick two numbers 13 and x and play Roulette online for as long as you can to see which number comes up mor more often. You could even do this for free at Silver Oak Casino or Planet 7 Casino (although the number seven may sway your odds).

Read the Top 10 ways to pick Roulette numbers on the Silver Oak Casino News Blog.

How to pick Roulette numbers. (racing-index images)

Throughout this blog you will find descriptions of each number on a roulette table. I will offer you reasons, both historical and humorous, that will help you find methods for picking your roulette numbers.

Later on I’ll cover some of the basic roulette strategies as well as the occasional “method” for trying to make money from playing roulette.

The number 14

I’ll play it until the number hits and then I’ll immediately pick it again on the next spin. Sometimes I just repeat the bet, but other times I leave all the winnings on in the hope of a massive payout.

I’ve hit twice in a row about 3 times now and it’s a total rush.

Some other quick facts about the number 14:

• It’s always my birthday – yes every year
• Dutch football (soccer) player Johan Cruyff
• A Truncated Octahedron is an Archimedean Solid with 14 Faces – who knew? and who cares!
• The Chemical Element Silicon has an atomic number of 14
• A period of 14 days is half of the Moon’s 28-day cycle
• The Arabic alphabet contains 14 Sun letters and 14 Moon
• In the UK a minor aged 14 can be tried in court for any sexual offense
• Minimum age at which one can view, rent, purchase, or buy tickets to an 18A rated movie which an accompanying adult in the Canadian provinces of the Maritimes and Manitoba. Gotta love those Canadians for letting 14 yr olds watch 18 rated movies
• French soccer star Thierry Henry lames 14 on his back
• Number worn by retired NBA sharp-shooter Jeff Hornacek (Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia 76ers, and Utah Jazz), this deserves a mention under the category of who gives a shit)

I’d stick your own birthday and try out my lucky number 14, if it worked for you – I accept paypal for donations to the cause I have yet to define. Maybe a big fund that I can pack back to anyone who comments on the blog with a good number.

The Number 23 - made famous by Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls

The number 23. What does it mean? It has a lot of references throughout popular culture.

Lets start with sports. For basketball fans, the number 23 has been immortalized by one obvious and very special man, Michael Jordan. His legacy continues in the form of the latest NBA superstar, Lebron James.

Jim Carey made the number 23 really weird in the movie “The Number 23“.

Some other random facts about the number 23:

• At the moment of his assassination, Caesar was stabbed 23 times
• The words leprous, dragon and blasphemy are used 23 times in the Bible
• The number of articulations in the human arm is 23
• The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter

So there you have it. 23 is an awesome number because Michael Jordan says so, and because it holds weird mystical powers over people open to conspiracy theories.

Next time you are playing Roulette, see how often the number 23 comes up. You can play Roulette online at Silver Oak Casino.

There are 36 numbers on a roulette wheel, plus either a zero (European Roulette) or a zero and a double zero (American Roulette).

People choose numbers for many reasons. It’s a mixture of psychology, superstition, gut feeling and blind randomness, and it’s also a lot of fun.

I’ll be digging out the obscure, funny, ridiculous and the somewhat scary reasons behind why people pick certain numbers.