Ever wonder why people say third time lucky? It certainly gives us some optimism when it hasn’t worked out time one and time two. Somehow it makes sense and we often trust that it can happen the third time, but why? The belief that not only will something succeed on the third occasion but also that we will increase the luck by saying “third time lucky” just before the attempt. In writing we can see it in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Letters addressed to R.H. Horese” in 1839: “The luck of the third adventure is proverbial.” We can also find it in Alexander Hislop’s “The Proverbs of Scotland” in 1862 “The third time’s lucky.” From these writings we have the feeling that the saying goes back a great deal further. Today some of us like to experiment the theory in simple situations like playing free bingo no deposit

It could be rooted in the example of John “Baddacombe” Lee who was an English sailor convicted of the murder of Emma Keyse in 1885. He was sentenced to hang at Exeter prison and all three attempts to execute him failed. Sir William Harcourt who was the then Home Secretary commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, and Lee was eventually freed and went on to live a long life dying in the 1940s. The English law had the premise to free or commute the sentence of a person who could not be hanged within three attempts. But even with this it is not a sufficient explanation as the phrase had been around before.

Over the water the Americans were using the phrase “third time’s a charm” so this negates the English law theory somewhat. Of course we have the Christian Trinity but once again there is not much to support this as the main origin of the phrase. In reality it seems to have been a folk belief that for some reason if there were setbacks we ought to “try, try and try again.” The balance here being that two times would be too little but four too much. Depending on your life you may have memories of it being true, or if you observe it you may find it to be. There are fun ways to experiment with a theory like this, in fact to study which is more true beginner’s luck or third time lucky. One relaxing way to do this in the comfort of your own home is by playing free bingo no deposit. This way you have nothing to lose while you experiment.

Imagine if you got to that stage of your life that you could calculate that the first time if you had your beginner’s luck hat on you could do it, the second time is more than likely just going through the motions to reach the third time, when it will happen for sure, of course that is if you didn’t get it with your beginner’s luck.

An interesting third time lucky story is about the 65 year old veteran explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes conquered Mount Everest on his third attempt. What’s more is that he had a triple heart bypass six years ago! He was doing it for the Marie Curie charity, for cancer and other illnesses, and he put the Marie Curie flag at the top.

Not all of us has goals such as Mount Everest but all the same most of us has goals that are either very important personally or at least a challenge. Building up the confidence in the fact we can either experience beginner’s luck or if not that we can be third time lucky is a worthwhile exercise, done easily by having fun with something like free bingo no deposit. If we build up the confidence each time is easier and this leads to a more successful fulfilling, and seemingly luckier life.