Bahuvian Luck

What is Bahuvian Luck?


1.

Any situation in which apparently random factorss combine to form a situation which seems to have been designed for irony.

If a man wins $10 million in a slot machine, it's luck.

If a man loses everything, then wins $10 million with his last quarter, it's a miracle.

If a man loses everything, is pulled kicking and screaming away from the machine, only to watch someone come up to the same machine and win $10 million on his first quarter, that second man has exhibited Bahuvian Luck.

See fortune, luck, chance, irony, poetic justice


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