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We all know that we have risks to take every day and if you are a gambling fanatic, you would think that everything can be an opportunity to profit from, like simple parlor games, video games, card games, etc.

Let me ask you, what is your experience towards the gambling attitude, especially now almost everyone is in quarantine, what did you do about it?

Personally, my family plays video games, specifically on the Playstation, where we play Crash Team Racing and we race and the last place would take a shot, this could be a different thing at stake, so it could still be considered as Gambling, IMO. This could be two things

• Gambling skilled based
• The stake is that you can stay longer as you won't take a shot

Have you done something similar to this and do you think it's gambling as well when there's something at stake?

In an honest sense everything in life is a gamble. Just the risk is different. We are playing with chance in every aspect of life, just from the moment of being born from the womb to the tomb. Still we develop skills and try to game the system to our advantage.

The attitude to gamble comes from willingness to take the risk. This is something that anyone likes to do and thus gambling is an inherent nature of humans.

Whenever there is something at stake, and it is always there, it is a gamble. Now a sports game may have odds in favor of those who know the game and their expertise and not completely luck based.

Me? Oh soo boring. I just Eat - Watch Movie - Sleep - Repeat. How unfortunate for me that no one knows how to play even a blackjack here ::). Playing Mobile Legends with my friend (You read it right! I'm stocked here in their house due to lockdown) and betting could work but I forgot that I'm very bad at MOBA. I might just end with empty pockets if I still pursue :D. Thus, I'll be silent for now and hope crisis days will be over ASAP.

Yes, anything could be converted as a gambling because betting on anything is possible (at least in teasing manner).

We do bet on "who will finish off the pizza first" or like "who will climb the staircase first", even these are done for no money, the winner may ask for a treat later on. I do really enjoy on this as winning is possible and feasible for me regardless of how new a task will be.

Gamble for fun and if chances are on your favor then make some benefits which fits more exactly here. Moreover, it cannot be illegal as per any culture nor jurisdiction too. Just make fun with your family or friend or colleagues or neighbors by making anything as a gambling.

Luckily we have some bingo set here in our house we would play it whenever we got bored and we also have cards,
But most of the time we are just watching movies and surfing through our phones.

Yes everything that is done with a stake of lossing or winning is considered a gamble for me.

I just missed my childhood when I've read about CTR. I think I'll copy what you're doing with your family. But I'll download first the classic Street Hoop arcade game and have a bet against with my brother. We used to play this game when we're younger.  ;D
A good betting and the loser will pay with any food delivery that the winner likes.

Luckily we have Bingo here in our house. I can play with my relatives.
We also have solitaire and other card games in phone that we can consider as gambling.

In our house, we just play online games with my friends here in our village. I cannot meet with them now but at least we have some means of communication and bonding through online games. This is the first time we experience this kind of thing cause since we were young we always hang out. now we are lockdown to each of our houses and never know when will this gonna end.

Playing video games is not gambling. Gambling is something when you put your money in it to win or lose a bet or a game. If you are playing video games like many children and adults play in their PC or TV, this will not be called gambling.

Anything that has a stake and the possibility of outcome is 50/50 I will consider that like gambling you cannot say that you have never participated in gambling when many of the things we are doing can be considered gambling, we may not know it but if you analyze it it can be considered as gambling, like, you will launch a party if you are promoted but your friend countered that challenge.  

Not doing that at home, first because I have more girls in my home and they are more interested in social media than playing online games or any kind of game. I have no choice but to just log in to my account online and just play on, not spending much money and time, but I am already having fun.

I'm doing such stuff because I don't want to get bored while at quarantine, actually I like to explore more games.

What does the "take a shot" mean?

Well, it's probably not gambling if the risk involved is little. Wish I know what the "take a shot" means to understand this whole post properly and give a reasonable response.

In my opinion, it is not gambling if the family members benefit more from the game with little to no harm/risk to them.
But spending too much time on the game with little benefits to the family members is gambling

Gambling between family can be considered as safe gambling or real gamble because we are not going to spend too much money but we are going to get more fun compared to real life casinos.I do compete with my friends on multiplayer games like racing and other shooting games where I spend more time due to lock down.

"Take a shot" implies that the loser has to drink vodka, whiskey etc. It is a drinking game basically. I prefer gambling with clothes in comparison(Boys and girls involved). This basically kicks things up a notch.

Gambling with family members is not always safe in my opinion since it could lead to unnecessary fights and I am speaking from experience. I witnessed fights between family members due to the money aspect.

Doesn't gambling always have something at stake? Whether it be something physical or imaginary, it'd still be something at stake. Just that, skill-based gambling can't really be called a gamble. A gamble, in its fullest sense, is something in which the winner heavily relies on luck itself to win. There are no precedents about it, nor is there any chance of you actually winning because of your skill. Even if we say that you had some insider news, that in itself, would still be called luck.

Matters of winning and losing isn't really gambling imo, but they do offer risks. Like everything out there is. Just that, there are different factors that could affect if you would receive or avoid the said "risk", hence the luck factor in gambling and skill factor in playing.

To be honest you can gamble with anything happening around you or in your life. I have intentionally never done that and never considered doing it. I know that without my knowing I might have gambled with my career. But, that was me gambling with myself.

I have have had friends who have casually done betting while playing games on PlayStation for a couple of beers.

For me there is no other better way but to gamble online.

I am not known as a gambler in our place and I don't gamble with people around me, and with this situation we are at now, it has not change my life, I am still a gambler like I used to, with online games is still available to play, it does not give made me a choice to try other ways to gamble, I just enjoy what I can access for now. Well, I am not hoping, they'll also close soon because it's not good for us gamblers and I maybe force to try a new one.

Generally life is a gamble but what is very important is we know how to manage the risk, do gamble on something fun, not on something risky.

Oh, interesting. Probably not a good way to bet especially if kids are involved.




We did similar things a alot as kids. The funny thing is that we still refuse to fulfill our agreement when we lose the bets. We give numerous excuses why the winners don't deserve to get the prize.

It happens only if the bet amount reaches out of our limits so we have to keep them under control for healthy and fun filled experiences which applies to gambling with strangers as well so we can avoid going bank rupt or losing money which is needed for something more important.

Lol. Same here. We still play these games even though we are all adults now since we love these games(Especially spinning the bottle). Gambling with family and friends provides a lot more fun when compared to gambling in casinos in my opinion.

True. Games like Bingo are easy to play and involve way less fights in my experience. Limit is indeed the key here.

Anything could turn to gamble a simple game with your friends with bets, a guessing or prediction games that includes money for betting for the results can be considered gambling, even in a country where gambling is prohibited they cannot totally rule out gambling, there are hundreds of ways to take things to gamble.

Everything in life has a bit of gambling.

You start a business, buy/sell physical stuff in your shop. It is a gamble. (You can go bankrupt)

You study and finish college, you may not have the returns you dreamed of or worse, your job might become obsolete.

A dice game is the purest form of gambling that's all.

Like @TheUltraElite said, all of the decisions we make in our life is considered gambling.

They have somewhat a difference. In real gambling, we decide which team we bet if it is sports and we decide if we will push or call or fold if we are playing poker. Same with our real life, we always decide whenever things are happening like if we will buy things, we are deciding if we really need to buy that item or not.

Eat, sleep, play online games and repeating it for the next weeks to come :(. Its fucking boring but I have nothing to do because of the situations right now.

Well said. If you view it in a gambling way, you would know what you are risking, right?

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I think with continuous playing (make sure you are done with your priorities first) you could significantly improve. You could also improve your gameplay by watching guides or even pro players at it. That's a good strategy IMO.

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I like the physical aspect of the staircase thing, it's such a physical thing to do. It's good for our bodies of course.

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We freaking loved this game. I have the advantage over them because the console is in my room. I get to play most of the time. Lol. I don't know Street Hoop though, only Freestyle.

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This is definitely what I mean. Lol. If there's clothes involved and a lot of hot girls, I think my skill level would go 9000. Competitiveness would rise to the occasion.

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There are no kids involved. We are all adults. Lol.

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This one is where a lot has failed but you could definitely succeed. The most important thing for me is assessing the risk involved.

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The best thing right now, IMO, is to learn something you wanted to learn for a long time. Whether it's a new hobby or something that you could use for your future, it's a great time to do so.

I went to visit my parents two days ago, brought them some groceries and stuff. They are not infected or anything, they don't want to leave the house due to their fragile health, and they are a bit scared. We played some card games, no money was involved, just for laughs. Felt good switching off and forgetting what is happening all around you, if only for a little bit.

BTW, those who want to gamble, why don't you set up a Skype conference call and gamble with your friends that way? Could be fun.

In order for the participants to become serious most of the games have stake so we can consider that every moves that we create are gambling especially if the stakes will include money. As our hobby, we don't take things seriously if we will not gain something from any games therefore most of the host either it is our beloved parents or siblings they will try to offer something to the winner if they like to create a game.

But there are times also that we don't need to stake some cash because every games will become successful if the participants will do their best even if there are stakes or not.

I cannot gamble with my family,In this situation all I am trying to do is check the condition of family and friends,!!!And I hope life returns to normal soon, Hanging around at home and a curfew became boring for me

That's true I have a friend who don;t want to gamble and I don't also want to gamble with him but we always making a bet whenever we are in a gaming arcade it's not about betting money but it's more about who will treat for a snack, but we have slightest idea that we are gambling with each other.

Yes, anything could be gambling. By simply playing games (cards, board, online games and such), you can gamble with it.  But I don't think I can consider that as gambling. Basically, playing PlayStation can be considered gambling when there's something in exchange.

For me, gambling is when you take the risk of anything valuable in exchange for getting something valuable as well. But since in your case, there's no valuable thing and you won't be getting anything. The loser will just take the shot but the winner won't be getting anything. I think it's just a game with a dare of taking a shot but can't be considered gambling. It will be called gambling if players made a bet and the winner will receive a prize.

And yes, I have tried similar things a lot. I like playing mobile legends and when there's an opportunity, I and my friends will look for an opponent and we make bets. Of course, the winner will take the money. I have also experienced it with simple card games with my family or my friends then there's a small amount of bet since we're just playing for fun.

I personally play gambling through online casinos or online gambling sites. But I like the idea of gambling could be anything, I would like to share, not mainly concerning about the condition for people being quarantine, but some times, we play online games such as League of Legends, Dota 2, and Crossfire. With that, we raise bets to win based on our trust in the skill of the players. But for now that we are limited to our respective homes, I might considering to host mobile legends gambling games with our friends because of its ease of access through mobile phones.

That's right, Gambling will never be gambling if no valuable thing are on the stake or are to play with. The risk is on the valuable thing and it makes the game exciting right? We can't call a gambling site if there is no valuable thing to be gambled on. Everyone is fighting for the prize and that is one of the reasons why gamblers are getting addicted to it. The adrenaline rush while playing is another factor that players are finding on gambling games.

Well, everything when it comes to decision making would really be like a gamble thing which each choice would really need up some right analysis and thinking for it to be beneficial on your part.
From the simplest thing to critical ones .So lets talk back to the situation given for this quarantine period when it comes to our gambling habits where anything could really be done inside your home
specially family members are together then seeking out some sort of entertainment with having something at stake would be enjoyable.Have we done the same thing? No, because my family
isnt really like that.  :D

I just believe the term "gambling" is being overused whereas betting should be the right term to refer all those simple things.
Yes, we must have some clear idea about what is gambling and what is betting and which is good and which should be avoided.

All the games which we are making into gambling should be considered as betting which should be treated as good whereas other luck-based things which could be performed alone for the reason of self-entertainment should be treated as gambling with the tag of dangerous to our health and wealth. Governments cannot do anything about people who do betting within themselves. This way it should be considered as betting and not gambling.

It's true that all things can become gambling, I also do the same thing. My friend and I play chess, and decide if the loser must buy
the food the winner wants. What I have done includes gambling, even though it doesn't involve money to the bet. And I did it just
for fun, so playing chess was fun, not under pressure.

Back then when there's nothing to do me and my cousins used to play a few rounds of card games and whoever ends with the least wins would treat everyone snacks or drinks.

The title reminds me of another similar thread about gambling taking place nearly every day but I forgot where it went.

It doesn't have to be literally gambling though it's more like playing for something to make the situation more interesting instead of just bragging rights.

When I was a kid my gamble was television advertising, my sister and I were guessing what ad was going to be and who could guess who was going to win.

In basketball also with my friends,
In online games, like Crossfire, Dota , LOL

And many more ..

As this quarantine is making us homesick, we tend to play jenga and the loser will do a certain number of pushups. I'm very good at playing jenga and my family member is not that good in board games, so I dominated them everytime we play. I do pushups regularly so being a loser and be punished is favorable in me. Playing board games with your family and having consequences for the losers is also considered as gambling for me because you also need to take a risk. You need to make a strategic plan, be skilled, and think critically in order for you to win the game. However, the pushup punishment will help them to become fit and increase their muscular strength.

CTR. Yo, that is a good game that I played before.  ;D
Played it with my friends and we are really getting into it specially when we are using a multitap.

I also remembered Quake II, when we do bets but not that much since we are still young. I made a lot of friends because of those games.
Real friends and not like now which you will have virtual ones.  ;D

I really don't have a console anymore since I wrecked it all.  ;D But, I will do the same as you did if only I have it.
I may try to borrow some later. Just for fun.

After reading this thread, I just realized that studying in a private universities can be considered as gambling. Let me explain it to you, as you study in a university, you pay for your tuition fee and after you graduated, you need to find a job where you can retrieve all the money you've spend in a tuition fee. That's how private universities work, the same in gambling, you need to bet and the result is uncertain, it is very risky, you will never know if you will have a good job after studying. It is guaranteed that you will retrieve your money but it will surely take time if your salary is not that good enough to support you in your career. YES, I therefore conclude that studying in a private school is the same as gambling.


Everything in our life can be considered as gambling. The money our parents owed to us just to live, we should pay for that and let them know that we are very thankful of their sacrifices. They risk their life, time and efforts, they bet on it just for us to have a good life. They bet their hard work for us to become a good people with proper mindset in life.

Today we have a worldwide quarantine that all of the countries made a lockdown so they are trying to avoid the spreading of the virus rapidly and this is a good thing even we want to have some gambling and even there is an internet connection just to play online gambling why not having fun with our family and play some games that are related too to the gambling games we are looking for and those are win win situation that you enjoy the game that you want to gamble at the same time you have bonding to your family. Also, it is good to introduce to them a new game that can help their critical and strategic mind about the things you've learned by just playing gambling.

I agree. Gambling is not just about money, it is always present when you are choosing or deciding. When you did the right choice, then you win, but when you didn't, you lose.

When you talk about gambling is not about money then you should not talk about win or lose. When gambling is not about money then it will be all about the thrill we are going to experience before finding the final result. When the thrill is more important for you then you can gamble everywhere out of our daily activities. Gambling is good when it is done for pleasures and when you are finding those pleasures from your routine life then it will be perfectly okay for your health and wealth as well.

I do gamble now a days only online and I could not find any friends or family members to challenge myself on my routine life's activities. For the people, who are leading the life as a machine, online gambling is the only possible way of gambling and for us anything could not be a gambling because there is no partner available all the times to bet on.

Your are right, we have the same time out. The current stay at home from the government  had made me and my friends stay together to have some fun. Though I don't have so much friends with passion for gambling but to overcome boredom at home we always play solitaire because they have little knowledge about gambling  either in the traditional settings or online casinos settings. Personally, I gamble online with my favorite online casinos which are stake.com and windice.io and am having a good time with these gambling platforms as my favorite for their offers.

Everything we do in life in a way is a gamble with the difference we do not know the exact odds of winning or losing, in the current circumstances staying at home or being out of it is a gamble, those taking the decision to stay at their home as much as possible are reducing their chances to get the disease as much as they can so they are taking a safe bet, while those that choose to go out are thinking they are not getting the disease despite the higher probability that is the case making it a riskier bet.

That is really pathetic to hear about. I can understand your situation because I have seen people like you. Anything could be gambling is possible only for the people who are leading their life among friends and colleagues and the people who are into elderly ages or leading the life alone due to various reasons may not see anything as gambling.

There are lots of social media are available these days and you could find a like-minded person so that you can start gambling with them. This is just a suggestion from what I could think about you right away after hearing about your situation and there could be multiple other better solutions are available and you should work on that so that you have tension-free life at least hereafter.

Well, that is right. Anything could be called gambling if you can stake and there's an odd. Most people now are to stay at home and begun to enhance self-quarantine. These kinds of games that played together with your family is a good way to have bonding time.
I heard that there are some people who were happy that there is a pandemic right now, they can bond their family anytime that did not happen before just because busy with works. Indeed, right this moment we need an online game that perhaps becomes to gambling in if there is a stake or odd.

Stakes online gaming never really took off because it requires a lot of escrow work and a lot of online refereeing and that has always been difficult from the start, you can try it in anything and it is always very very difficult. I have seen people try stakes fifa gaming for example, all the entrants pay a fee when they start and it is an online playstation tourney so it looks as legit as it gets but for some reason there has been problems almost on half of them.

So, gambling could be anything but when you consider how awesome provably fair is, you can't have provably fair in many of them. Hell there was even match fixing in sports in almost every nation in history, I remember Turkey and Italy very clearly for recent decade, so even that is not provably fair, we just have to trust them.

That's right, anything can be used for gambling because when family, friends or anything of them are gathered, then they can play anything with whatever is at stake and that is according to their own agreement. But for me personally, I never play games or gamble like this with my own family, and for problems like now about social distancing, quarantine, isolation, I would prefer to remain alone and will not play anything that is done together.

It's normal to think of another form of entertainment that involves a gambling-related activity out of boredom.

Actually almost the same to you, we started gambling here recently but not within our family but to my circle of friends against whoever they will contact for a match. The game is MLBB and all payments are done through popular payments here (online).

So far, we already did 2 games in the last 2 weeks since it's hard to found an opponent and others don't have funds at their online payment app but they have cash. But because of the quarantine imposed here, it's hard to make a deposit.

Literally everything could be gambling.
I have remember betting with my friends while sitting beside the highway, guessing what brand or color of car that would pass us by next.
While on the current quarantine, the most accessible and easiest way to gamble for fun is card games, which we have been doing since the quarantine began. We didn't placed any money bet, but we came to an agreement that who ever losses would clean a specific area in our house lol.

That's a bad game because I love to drink so at some point I'd try to lose to finally be able to take a shot :D


Yes everything can be gambling but there's innocent, positive gambling, like when you race bikes with your friends to the store and whoever gets there first doesn't pay for his ice cream or something like that. There also can be serious gambling where you put your valuables on the line. Some people bet their cars in poker games. That's crazy if you ask me.

Different lifestyles have the common risks and surviving in the hard life conditions are the riskiest gambling I have ever seen. The gambler's mind focuses on risk/reward and everything happening in our lives such probabilities. The risk is interesting but not everyone has the same risk understanding capacity. The rewards can be bigger if the person can afford the risks which required for entrance in the life(game).

I like your idea to not place any single of money but prefer to order something for those who get losses. During the quarantine, we will play the game with our family members, put money as the reward seems not really appropriate. The best option is to order anyone who gets lose to do certain tasks at home. I'm considering this kind of game to do at my home as well.  :D

OP, that's actually nice, having fun out of boredom. Although money is involved, as long as the activity will not lead to negative things that can happen to a usual gambler, it's just fine to continue.

I never tried yet any of those fun games that involve gambling with the use of crypto or basically just money with the current situation we are into. The fact is, I busy too with my other chores that's why no time for other activities.

I will follow this thread for some ideas. Want to see some fun games that can turn into a gambling game to fight boredom.


That practice is currently not recommended for playing against friends and neighbors. But within the household, that's good.

i think this sounds familiar to me   . dunno where but i think i see this on the t.v or some of my friends already done this before but not on me because we my family is always busy even on this lockdown  so i usually prefer to play on my own  . i play crypto gambling    .

 i dont consider everything to be gambling except from those things that i already know as a form of gambling  but life itself is already like a gambling right ? because we can experience ups and downs   . life is risky too  .

I am trying to enjoy my time at home with my family. We watch television about the spreads of the virus and the total number of people infected. Playing a game on the computer will be the way to kill the boredom, and sometimes we use money as the fun thing, and that money is for the winner. That helps us to make the game more excited. The money will make us play better to win the games and get the money.

I remember when I was a teenager, sometimes I bet with my friends about something, and I think many people already did that. That is gambling because of the money involved with what we did.

The involvement of money towards gambling always made it a very interesting way about betting. Without the presence of it doesn't makes any sense at all, because people usually seeks a luck opportunity from gambling just to gain lucky profit as well. However, some folks wanted to say and change every mindset that it was only for fun but in reality it's really a money making mindset.

Still I can remember my childhood. :D when I was in class 6, I bet with my friend. The bet was about a game, we played a badminton match and the bet was Whoever wins he has to pay a Cocacola by his own money though I had to buy a Coca-Cola cause I lost but It brought me great joy.  :D

Street Hoop is an arcade game although because of emulators that's downloadable on the web, you can easily play it with a PC or laptop and go with controllers or not. It's also like Freestyle but the design of the game looks more childish and hype. You get to have super shot, dunk or 3-pt shooter if your gauge becomes full. And that is achievable whenever you shoot 3 times. Anyway, these games are a lifesaver in these times and we get to have a bonding time with our family.

Gambling is about winning the big amounts. People play gambling with this hope of getting lot of money. They think gambling is a quick rich scheme but actually it is not. If you try to get money with your luck only with a lot of risks and with no big efforts, then you are gambling.

Well, gambling is always on our daily life, in just simple saying to your friend on who are going to be the first one to eat the banana, the first one who will have a boyfriend/girlfriend and who will be the one who get the highest score on exam, those are can be considered as simple gambling, well that is not bat at all because you are just doing it for some fun or else depends on your wants or needs.

Gambling could be only bad to you if it involves money and if you really get addicted on it, like casino gambling or online gambling, those can destroy your life if you get addicted on that because you may forget some valuable things that you usually do when there is no gambling on your life. It will also can ruin your relationship to your family and friends.

Play cards (pusoy and tongits) with your family and relatives. It is our family tradition somehow because we do have fun everytime and we do having a good conversation while playing. In other words, it's a fun game.


I think everyone of us done something that's similar to that.
Example: The one I've said above. We can play cards without bet, but with a consequence. And spin the bottle - if you hadn't play this game on your childhood, how unfortunate.

i don't need to understand the whole topic to favor the title.

though this is different from your story OP but i do believe that everything in life is gambling,even our Work is gamble because even how good you are and competent in your position but things sometimes happen that we are being kicked to be replaced by others and that is gamble.

gamble to choose Wife,because it can happen that what you chose is not the one that will be yours forever so another gambling.

and yeah,we can do anything to gamble either with stake of money or services.

Hell yeah , I have . I love it to gamble with my family but always and always it doesn't involve money. The stakes are always different , like with my father I gamble about politics who will win and who won't and whoever loses decides to watch their programs for the next day.
With my mother , I gamble about movies as in who will die first if it is a horror movie and stuff and the stake ? I will have to help her out in kitchen duty or similar.

With my brother , about sports or poker , losers get punishment just like truth or dare but only dare.

I am not doing like what you did, but I consider that could be gambling, but as long as you don't use the money inside the game, I think you don't gamble with your family. You should play the games with your family without using money because, with money involved, that can attract you to try to win the games, and that will not be good for you and your family.

In these situations, it is better to protect our family correctly, so they don't get infected, and they can feel comfortable while they stay at home. It is an emergency that can happen to all people. It is better to stop gambling for a while and enjoy our time with our family.

Its just funny that if we are at work we often wish to be at home and sleep, but now we are in strictly home quarantine im missing my work and though im not doing anything at home I feel tired and its weird.

Well since we have more time to stay and be with our family due to lockdown, we can think of something to not get bored. On our case we are playing card games particularly tongits (its a classic pinoy game) but because its a friendly game there's no money involved.

This Virus gave us all something to start on,gives us more time to bond with family and friends thats why so many ideas has been shared here.
but that is correct that Gambling can be considered in everything we do and our daily life.

Riding a Train to office is gambling if we will be late or not because we don't know the volume of people riding everyday.
that is a cool gambling to test your skills and ability but bad that you lose and need to buy a cola .

We used to play gambling games such as poker, pusoy (this game has unique name but it is the name called in my country) and many more games which is base on skills. We are not betting any money because for us it is not good we just playing but we have consequences for those people who will lose in every game.

gambling with money involved isnt that bad as long as you are gambling based on your capability  .

its not also bad if your gambling with your love ones because when you loose you it was like giving the money on your loved ones but in a indirect way and not on other people/strangers  but its also possible to gamble without money involved versus other people  because there are now many gambling apps online that are free to play   . anything can be gambling but we still need to follow some rules and advices so that we can be fine in the long run   .

I think the money aspect would be the factor there. Maybe having an interactive board and an agreement with certain amounts to be used or something. Probably that could be effective, lol.

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I think you used the wrong adjective about the game. It's an awesome game! I didn't drink because I wasn't losing though, and I got to my bed almost sober.

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It's really sad if someone isn't able to experience that but we all have our different upbringings, and I'm blessed to have experienced it too.

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This is a hard one especially when you don't know the plot, back in the day but in this day and age, it's quite easy to win this, just Google it and you would get an answer. Lol.

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It's a dilemma, right? I know that sometimes we just like to chill and just stay at home to rest but now that we are resting (depending on your daily activities), we miss work. I think if you liked your work, you would miss it. I know someone who wants to get back to work right away. He wants to go back probably next week. Good luck to him. I hope his company would take care of him though.

Just to do a fun part of the COVID-19, and say that everything is gambling.
Gambling is also breaking the self isolation and go out without any real reason. In this case you don't gamble any fiat money or any cryptocurrency bbut you gamble your own life...

Every gambler is eager to win because they had bet something valuable and they don't want to lose it but they want to get the more valuable asset. We gamble because we want to win a certain prize not because we don't want to take the punishment. Cause obviously, it's just a punishment with no prize to win.

That's the difference between a simple dare game and gambling. The risk is higher with gambling because there is a possibility of losing something valuable. But with just taking a shot, there's nothing to lose at all.

Good for you man! Here in our house we are only 4, so no games and just literally just doing netflix all day. I also miss my daily routine, it's okay to have a little break, but this quarantine makes me feel tired all day. Just stay home man, and be safe.  hope this virus will go away soon.

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Back to the topic. Yes, anything could be a gambling, right now we are facing a pandemic and every-time we go outside to buy goods that we need are we are risking our health on getting the corona virus. This is tough gamble to all of us right now, I hope that my fellow bitcoin enthusiast will be safe in this pandemic. Stay at home! don't gamble your life.

Anything could be gambling in so many way or aspects, just for example those decisions that we are making in our life, we are gambling through the use of life in which we are picking up the thing that we see or we think that will really the good one even though the both of them are good but you are making a decision just like in gambling you are making a good decisions in order for you to win and earn.

There's no doubt that gambling was really a fun way of experience but it will be just fun if the luck is on your hands in which you are continuously winning on different aspects so that you will earn and you will experience the winning, but the thing is how about when you are not winning but instead you are just keep on losing? How about that? Although you are losing sometimes just always remember that don't lose on the gambling of life because that is the most essential way on how to live in this world.

Basically, there are few phrases that references decision making as risks or gambles, so i could suppose that gambling is anything.

One important factor to take notice of is the need not to become an addict, and maintain proper responsibility while gambling.

That's not clearly the picture that OP is pointing to.

It's not appropriate to consider gambling in real life as the same in gambling with money. So literal.

It has lots of difference and just because the word gambling is used, it's now become the same.

It is all about how your perception on things. I guess it will be appropriate to consider the real life gambling with what we are doing in casino with money. I'm not seeing big differences. Instead of dicing online, I guess we can toss coin against a friend and even with martingale strategy. I believe it will bring same kind of excitement and profits like how online dicing will be. Still, it is all about how you are able to adopt things; your level of perception will play here a big role.

I agree the term 'gambling' being misused everywhere and I believe there should be some differentiation must be needed so that we can distinguish things respect to each other. I read some people are suggesting about real-life gambling as betting and money involved-luck based-professionally done things as gambling. They might be right 8).

Try to read the examples of the post that I quoted:


It's clearly not appropriate to consider these the same as gambling with money. How come it become the same?

Gambling in real life, facing challenges in society is DIFFERENT from doing gambling with the involved money. The factors are different. We should separate those things.

They are different on general sense but actually it can be considered connected and its indeed true that everything in life is a gamble yet we do make our own choices into things.
One wrong decision will surely lead up to problems or situations that cant really be reverted or to go back once it messes up your life.Its comparable though and i dont
see it to be inappropriate for it to be compared.Anything that doesnt involve or does involve money will really be just like gamble the difference is that on what are the things
you do put at stake.

You cannot ignore the fact that professional gambling (or with money as you mentioned) is derived from what we have in real life as challenges. So, there cannot be any big differences between them and I believe there will be no need to separate these things. It means we can interchangeably refer any of them by the single term "gambling".

I agree with OP. Anything can be gambling. When there will be some challenges could be discovered in our daily activities then that is most suitable for considering as gambling. Involving money or not is just an option for the people who are participating into that challenge but the thrills and excitement will not depend on the involvement of money with that challenge as per my opinion.

More importantly, since we are practicing social distancing as an effective way to battle the virus, we need just need to limit our fun gambling with our relatives and don't take that outside our home.

Here in my area, there are lots of hard-headed people that play card games in our street despite day curfew that implemented recently. It attracts passerby people for side betting or just a watcher. It defeats the idea of social distancing.

Goodluck to our health status. Whew.

Yes, we are gambling every day in our lives without realizing it. Every decision in your life is like a bet. Doing some physical games and you bet on it, it is another form of gambling or just playing with your family at home. But those types of gambling games that are more fun, especially with your family and put some bet to make it more thriller. We usually play card games with my cousins and of course, it has some bets for fun.

Considering the scenario everyone needs to stay home and can spend time online or can play within the family members. It can be of cards or any of the games. All around the globe the scenario is worse, in terms of health as well as money flow. Countries that took it easy were now feeling bad on the decision, understanding the need people needs to keep themselves on social distancing.

Everything can be taken into gambling, but one needs to know the priority for gambling and life.

Not just playing games with your family, but if we make a decision for some option, that would be gambling too because we never know what the result is later. When I play card games with my cousins, we don't use money, but we use chalk to draw in his face. That's funny, and that will not make addicted. But yes, gamble without using money sometimes is not interesting because there is no passion behind the games. But that is what we did if we don't want to lose the money.

Yes it would only depend on us if we would consider them as gambling.
Back when I was a kid my friends and I would guess the next commercial on T.V and make some bets or the ending of some movie.
Anything could be used for gambling if we want to.

It's also fun if we try games and converted it into gambling. Like usual games but with betting and rewards. That makes it more fun and exciting. I remember wayback i high school where in we tend to "like gamble" in a video playstation. Losers will gonna give some bucks to the winner. It will make you a good competitor thinking of the prize you will get by winning the game.
 
 Simple games with gambling will kill the boredom especially when we are in lock down. You can do play with your family at home and that's the perks of it.

It is gambling as long as there's staked money and agreement before you play. Be it with computer games, sports or anything competitive that you want to do just to fight the boredom while staying at home.

About the next commercial of TV, we have never thought of this but about the ending of a movie. I think this is interesting, my brother can do this with some shows that we used to watch. For the gamers, you enjoy with your peers without sacrificing gambling.

I agree, though there are no money staked. Life is a gamble, we are placing our bets on what will be our future. Universe is just a big casino that all of us partake and it is up to our skill and Lady Luck that we will win or lose.

Well, we can't really limit our understanding of what Gambling is,  gambling has lots of forms, dependent on every person or a group of people gambling. We could differentiate the two by how much is at stake: low and high stakes, low stakes are usually done only in home or streets with payments such as a couple of coins per play, while high stakes, includes a large amount of money waged, mostly done in casinos or by the people that are high class and wealthy.

I play with my 11-year-old nephew. I have downloaded an App where he can play and accumulate points that can be converted into an ERC-20 token. I have taught him to take control of the game, he must also do his school activities to earn the opportunity to play with the App.

In online gambling, we can use a large amount of money too, because I think that some people want to use big money to gamble. But that is not recommended if you don't have big money too. Yes, anything could be gambling, and I agree with that. Sometimes, we gamble by coincidence with our friends, with or without money, but we don't realize that it is gambling.

You do not have to stake money to gamble, though I would not go as far as to say life is a gamble;) Life is uncertain but to gamble means having to put a stake on something in the hopes of winning something back. I think luck and uncertainty do not necessarily mean gambling.

Being born is a big lottery though. We end up in a country like ours and we get to be the lucky 1% who can come online and enjoy crypto.

You are right I just realize every step you take is like a bet or gambling but they have different things at stake either money, reputation, or your future, etc. So it is very important to think about every decision we make when it concerns our lives and family. Yeah, money really affects your motivation for the game. I also consider investing in crypto is gambling too, I heard some sold their houses/property just to buy bitcoin.

Oh yes, everything could be gambling nowadays. What is not? Even crossing a pedestrian is gambling nowadays. And with the risk we are all facing with the COVID-19 virus reaching almost all the nations in the world, even talking to another person or merely getting out of the house is enough gamble already.

Back to the topic though. Any game which has a stake or bet, monetary or something else, is gambling already.

For me anything that involves money especially where you guess and place bets becomes betting and then you are free to gamble on anything as far as your imagination can go. It could just be how many times in a day you sneeze to how many hours you can be quite etc. It all depends on a person on what they want to gamble on and put their money to place bets. Also, sure people would have place bets on more weird one's than this options.

In my opinion, calling such things gambling is not entirely correct. Gambling is always connected with money, I think this is the main criterion.
If you add the function of playing for money in those games that your family plays, then this could be called gambling.

Opinion differs between all of us hence the definition of gambling definitely varies across different cultures and traditions.

If money involvement defines the gambling then what will define betting? I believe there should be some generalized classification between gambling and betting so that we can think about considering our day-to-day activities as gambling or not.

Somehow, it seems I need to agree with you. Yes, just adding the money part in our usual games, it seems we can change them similar to gambling. But so far in my understanding, all the challenges could be considered as gambling regardless of it is done for money or not. I am always open to learn new things and it should be good if someone guide me on how to identify gambling from our usual games and challenges.

There three Corona inspired coins/tokens right now and they are all traded in decentralized exchange, obviously they will not get acceptance on centralized exchange, these are all pump and dump coins.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/coronavirus-token
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/coronacoin
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/corona

Definitely and I'm quite sure any social individual must have gone through similar experience. Gambling isn't just a sport thing per se. It's a part of our life as humans, without thinking much you would easily recall some childhood memories that involved you gambling irrespective of money been involved sometimes just to prove you were right or for the boosting right (ego).

Placing a bet with your siblings could also be considered as gambling irrespective of no monetary value coming into the discussion. Since there's something on the line which will result to one party lossing while the other benefiting, it can still be considered as gamby.

Thanks for sharing everybody. I think we have shared a lot already and almost everyone has done it. There are a couple of different views, but in every person, there is a Gambling Instinct that we could recognize, whether we grew up in different societies, there's something familiar in everyone, which is gambling.

I will be closing this thread now.