I don't often enter contests, but when I do............I tend to win about 99 percent of the time. I have no clue why. It's just always been that way.
I've won a beautiful (and expensive) oak coat rack for my step dad one year for father's day. (mom's 3rd husband, I was about 15 at the time) I also won her 2 dozen long stemmed roses and a phone call on the radio as they were delivered the same year for mother's day. (she nearly killed me over that one, roses got her crying, her being interviewed over the radio infuriated her lol ) I've won concert tickets. I've won a beautiful Pendleton blanket which has been on my bed since Nichole was 7 yrs old.
I rarely play the lottery as well, when I do, I tend to win something........sometimes big, sometimes just my money back. Very rarely do I come up empty.