Weddings, winning as easy as 12-13-14 for some
LAS VEGAS — It's rare. It's orderly. And when it comes to remembering an anniversary date, it's as easy as 12/13/14.
Saturday's Dec. 13, 2014, represents the last sequential calendar date for at least 20 years (Jan. 2, 2034) and another 89 years if waiting for Jan. 2, 2103.
If a person has a heart set on commemorating the next 12/13/14, make sure that heart can stand another 100 years on earth to make it to Dec. 13, 2114.
For cryogenic fans, it's 1,000 years until 3014.
A sequence comes sooner for math nerds with pi. The day is mere months away on March, 14 (Get it? 3.1415 ....)
The dates represent a lucky list of number for some gamblers and certainly a memorable birth date for others.
Lottery players looking for a bit of extra luck love these kinds of quirky number combos.
Maura McCann, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Lottery, said they anticipate selling more tickets on sequential or repetitive dates such as 12/12/12, but notes that lottery players get inspired by all sorts of things.
"Lottery players, kind of in a nutshell, are superstitious," McCann said.
The numbers mean less in Las Vegas sports betting books.
In horse racing , it would mean an unusual number of horses would have to run to take a ticket on 12, 13, 14, said John Avello, the director of the race and sports operations at the Wynn hotel-casino.
A roulette wheel stands to be the more likely destination for a gambler looking to chance it with the date, he said.
For many others in Las Vegas, they will take a chance by making a date for a spouse.
The Viva Las Vegas wedding chapel plans to marry 120 couples Saturday starting with Egyptian-themed nuptials followed by weddings with a touch of Tom Jones, gangsters, Liberace and, of course, Elvis, said general manager Brian Mills. The number is on pace with July 7, 2007 (7/7/7) but far from the 230 weddings the chapel performed for Nov. 11, 2011 (11/11/11).
