Coincidences are easily found in numerology games. The new dice game daily
double was a big hit during World War II. Sixteen days before the attack on
Pearl Harbor The New Yorker ran two advertisements for the game. The
advertisement headline read ACHTUNG. WARNING.ALERTE! At the foot of the
column below the words THE DEADLY DOUBLE was a double-headed heraldic eagle
with a shield on its breast bearing a double cross.
The second advertisement pictured two dice one black and one white. Each dice had three faces showing. The white dice had the numbers 12 and 24 showing on two faces and double X on the other. It is speculated that 12 meant December, the month of the attack. On the black dice the numbers 5,7 and 0 were visible.
The number seven would stand for the day of the attack. The numbers five and zero would have represented the time of the attack and XX would have meant 20 in Roman numerals. The number 20 is the approximate latitude of Pearl Harbor.
The suspicion that the advertisements were actually placed by German operatives as a warning to German agents were so strong that the FBI actually investigated the people that placed the ad, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Craig.
The game was legitimate and the FBI's investigation was kept quiet. Until 1967 when Ladislas Farago, former U.S. naval intelligence, revealed the story to the press in an effort to promote his book The Broken Seal. After the story broke a reporter interviewed Mrs. Craig. The widow stated that any connection between Pearl Harbor and the advertisements "was just one big coincidence."
A connection has now been speculated to be made between the two advertisements and Kennedy's assignation.
The moral of the story is to becarful when playing the numbers.
(Mysteries of the Unexplained, P.73)