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While I was growing up I used money meant for purchasing foodstuffs to gamble , I can recall in one of those occasions while on my way to the market i met some group of guys who were into local match box gambling. This was my first time of been exposed to gambling. This boxes were filled with groundnuts on one end and sand on the other end. This match boxes would be shuffled then the gambler will be asked to pick the box with groundnuts inside and if such gets lucky enough he wins by doubling his stake but if he losses his fiat is gone.

On that faithful day I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything. I became confused all I could figure out is the lies I will tell my parents on how armmed rubbers met on my way and took away the fiat meant to buy foodstuffs. I got the beating equivalent to the fiat I lost  but I tried my best to convince my parents I wasn't lieing.

It's about lies that are covered up in order to hide our recklessness for disobeying orders to buy food, and you do it perfectly, gamble and spend it all. Did you know the method is not much different from gambling now? it's just that the concept is even more sophisticated, if at that time you were played by the dealer face to face, but in online gambling you were played by a machine that was designed in such a way.
Regarding what lies I have hidden for gambling, it is not too different, maybe in terms of the various stories, but the reasons for hiding them are relatively adjusted to other chronology.

If you have to lie about your habits then it means there is something wrong with them, while it is an interesting story the one you are telling us if you had been an adult betting your own money then there would not have been anything wrong with you making a bet.

However you used money that was not yours and that was supposedly destined for something else, you were probably underage and you gambled with it, so I can understand why you lied at the time but this is a sign there is something wrong with what you did and if this happens frequently then this is a huge red flag that there is something wrong with it.

I'm not sure if I will go that far, inventing things like someone mug me and take all the money. My parents won't believed it, so I just tell the that I lost the money somewhere that it.

But yeah, lost some on some street hustler like the 3 card monte and then going home with empty pockets that I should have bought food in the first place. Perhaps this is just part of the journey of involving ourselves in gambling when we are young.

Commiting lies isn't really a big deal unless you're held liable for the erroneous things you did when you failed betting you money on gambling.
Inventing a scenario that doesn't even existed was the wrong idea, and much better we're telling the truth to someone or even our parents rather than fooling them.
If you're going to be honest, you won't be stressed and all things will become worrisome. On that idea, they'll able to help you to regain yourself confidence then change your perspective about gambling on how to avoid possible addiction.

Its ok to hide your gambling activities just don’t do any action that is against the law and just continue to gamble using your money, never do any act of violence just to get money for your gambling activities.

I do also lie to my parents with regards to this one, until one day they discover me that I’m into gambling well, they accept it since its my money and they can’t do anything about it.

Experience could neither give us some important lesson or would just be a simple trigger up into something which we might get involved later on as we do grow up.

We could really make out those reasons because we dont like on being scolded but there are instances where we do get bust up and there's no way that you can avoid or making out some alibis.

Even myself did experience on making out betting but only on personal or on things which might happen or not on particular situations together with my classmates in elementary
which it id really result into that loss of money which it would be more worth if its been used on buying food.

While its not good doing such (gambling->lying) thing especially if you're just a kid or maybe a teenager that time, but that's really funny experience you can tell to your friends while growing up ^^.

I have something similar experience but instead of gambling the money for foods, I gambled the money that should be my tuition for college in a "peryahan", well, the case isn't similar though since I win at the end but I almost lossing it all first though and that cracks me to get it back.

Once or twice of lying is considerable but if you do already make it as a habit just for you to play gambling then thats surely a problem which would mold up in the future.
It is true that you should be that open for your parents to know on what you are doing and they wont really be angry if you are just honest or if they do then thats part of disciplining their children
because wrong doings shouldnt really be tolerated and we know that they have much more experience than us which its understandable that you should obey
on what are their commands and always be obedient.

 ;D Haha! your lie was not that convincing it seems for your parents. You should have told them the truth that you wanted to double the amount given for buying food by trying your luck. Actually, it was not your fault at all anyone at that age would be lured into it, after all, you were able to double $4 to $8.

I have never been in such a situation wherein I had used my parent's money to gamble. I have told several lies to them for different situations, some were convincing and some were not, those which were not ended up badly for me too.

We all did make mistakes when we were kids. We have no experience at that time, not even understanding what the consequences are. I have done something like that when I saw my mother told me to go to my uncle's house to get some cash from my father who attends a gathering. When I arrived I saw my father on a makeshift deck table dealing cards.

He gave me about $80 but gave my mother about $60 only. Later she found out whipped my ass almost a hundred times. She gave me a hundred times more when she learned I went to the nearby carnival, bet $20, and lose.

I guess I did but couldn't remember it anymore, maybe it was that long now I could just tell. From your story I think it was a far-fetched kind of a lie to be honest unless there's some serious evidence that you've got the beating. Your story doesn't include if you really had it but I think what could be worse if you really hit your head hard in a cement wall, that could be more not a lie.

It is a funny story, but kind of deep as well. Everything starts small. Imagine that simple local gambling game was actually the one who brought you the kind of excitement that gambling brings, probably the exact same feeling that my first gambling game also gave me.

I also started small, and with lies as well. I started gambling with my spare coins intended for snacks way back in my elementary days. Instead of buying food, I ended up playing coin gambling games with them. Of course, when I got home and asked what kind of food I bought with my pocket money, that's when lies came out.

I don't remember such things happened too but when I am lying, my parents seem to know what I'm up to and Yeah, I'm not that good lier. I think I don't have the guts to do those things back then especially when it involves money because I think that if something goes wrong, I don't have the means to pay it back. It seems like you are a risk-taker back when you were a child that's why you ended up here in this community. I started to take risks when I am the one who earns my money not when someone trusted me with it.

Biggest lie I did was when I said I wasn't gambling lmao. Back when I was a HS kid me and my friends had this circle that used to play poker without bets. Developed into us actually playing WITH bets after a few months. Slowly started from small amounts to big amounts, but back then, my parents and my GF that is in the same school as me abhor gambling. I got pretty into it though, so I didn't tell them that I am gambling, well, till the day that they discovered themselves that I was gambling with money. It was even the time where I had the biggest loss from all my sessions that she discovered, and naturally, my parents discovered as well through her. 

First of all, I'm sorry that you got a beating from your parents. It's never a good thing to experience, and it might have caused some trauma. I hope you didn't take it in the present too much that it might have caused problems for you.

Anyway, I think it's natural to be secretive at first with what you're doing if it's harmful in your household. I believe that's the problem that children face when they know it's wrong but still want to see it, and in return, they just lie. I think the relationship between the parent and the child should be trust base and let them understand why it's not good or why it's something to be frowned upon.

Of course, nobody in this world hasn't told a lie, even a white lie. I think everybody has, and it's always going to be for some reason that is okay for them. I have lied to get what I want, for example, lied about where I was going. If it's far away, I tend to say that I'm going somewhere closer, but that's not something that someone should be doing. It might have caused me trouble thinking that it was okay, but it certainly is not.

I'm going to stop rumbling around now, lol.

Yeah, I also can't recall what lie I did during that time in my high school days, but for sure our parents know a thing or two if we do not tell that the real reason as to where the money did go. But I guess the beating you we got from our parents is to discipline us because they already know what we are up to.

But us becoming parents, we don't want our kids to really dab on gambling at a young age. So it's really up to us know to be a good parents and try to be on the look out for our kids not just gambling, but other vices as well.

My biggest lie was when I was in college, because I had money destined to spend with the girlfriend I had at that time, because I was serving 2 years with her and I told her that I would take her to the movies and then have dinner and well that for that moment translated into a lot of money, that same afternoon I went to the casino to play bingo and I spent everything I had destined for.

What I did was to invent to her that I got sick, that it caused diarrhea and that maybe I had parasites and that I could not leave my house, that I felt very bad and that I was going to medicine, she understood me, but between heaven and earth I did not There is nothing hidden, because a friend of hers saw me when I went out with my friends at the casino and told her and uff they almost finished me that day, the truth I felt something bad and some time later she gave me that strong diarrhea because I ate a hamburger in The street may not have been in normal sanitary conditions, and I really felt very bad, in truth, the lie came out face to face.

I was thinking exactly the same. Losing more money than you can afford to, even money that you were supposed to use to buy food and then having to lie sounds a lot like someone who has a problem with gambling.

The OP does not mention if he has lost too much on subsequent occasions but I take it he is a gambler.

In my case, I am quite in control of the game, so I have never had to lie. Fingers crossed that this will continue to be the case.

how many times this happened ? because if it happens a lot your parents are not convinced in your alibi's anymore but if it was the first time you can easily get away with it without getting harmed but i still dont encnourage that because lying is a sin .
 if you can be honest with your parents they could have given you a money  to spend in that kind of entertainment  .

The people you met were all criminals trying to make a dubious Living by preying on the innocence of bystanders and taking advantage of your greed. There is a popular saying -"the more you look, the less you see'' and that is exactly what you fell a victim for.

I have been a victim of this type of cheap gambling scam before just to discover on observation that most of the people standing around such places all know themselves and act like they do not. ( They are all members of the same dubious criminal gang) putting up an act, hoping to entice innocent individuals to come play with their fiat.

Don't beat yourself so much, that was your first experience to the street and street gambling and such experiences are meant to make you smarter and street conscious, so truthfully you met robbers, just that were not armed.

A lie that fails, maybe it's better to admit it because it's a lie or to be honest you will get the same reaction which is a punch. Never do anything like you ever did, but lying because other things have done, because humans must have lied only the causes and reasons are different.
The good thing about your story is that you immediately lose because if you are able to double the money it will continue with another lie.

Ona bigger picture, if it has become a habit then it will not only be restricted to the gambling but to other things in life as well and this is more bigger worry for that matter. So truth is always best or else if cannot speak it then other option left is to stop is permanently till you are earning good amount for yourself and can spend on certain ratio in gambling.

Old school story and gambling ways. That's a nice story and I believe you, not the lie though.   :D
I can relate. Stole a couple of dollars from my Aunt in his bag and try to double it with gambling. When I got home, I knew something bad is going to happen.
Heads down, don't look up or you will see it in their eyes like you are a suspect of a crime in the streets.
When you are a kid, it's difficult to make them believe what you will say. Of course, that's because they know you or your habits will show when lying.

I also witnessed a similar gambling event mentioned by the OP in my country, but I dare not or lack the courage to use the money I was sent for buying stuffs and gamble with it, the country where I came from allows parents to subject their kids to flogging once they misbehaved, thus I knew that if I tried to gamble with that money and ended up losing the Fiat, I knew I am in a serious trouble, no amount of lieing would convince my parent to reason with me, I will be severely punished, I can't even lie that I lost the money along the road, it will also be unacceptable excuse.

You are the worst liar i ever met, imagine that Money is for the foods of the family INCLUDING you but instead of telling them what really happens , you made it with total lie , if i were your parents? i will let you starve for that whole week as you spend the budget for 1 week food (if that is the equivalent of 45$ that time)

I only lied to my family about cutting classes in which i did several times when i was in Highschool but never did for any stupid gambling activities.

What i lie maybe when i get money from gambling contest, but i said to my parents if i do trading. In my family, gambling is prohibited and i think they will be mad if i get money from gambling or maybe doing gambling itself. So until now i am not tell them if i play gambling in crypto. Gladly i am not really much doing it because i know losses will be more than what we won.

It would be better for you if you told your parents the truth. Most likely your father would have scolded you and told you all the methods of street scams he knew, which were presented to you in the form of gambling, and then you would not have fallen for such tricks. I have a negative attitude towards lying, especially when a person lies to the people closest to them.

I can not remember what lies I already did to play gambling because that was long ago. But if you lie for just playing gambling, that will not be easy, especially if you lose all of the money and do not have a right reason why you lose the money.

The first time, maybe it looks easy to win some money, but then, the dealer will not let you win for more and will make you lose the money. We do not know if they cheat on us or that it is just coincidentally, but that really happens to us and we only regret what we already did while we will hard to recover the losing money.

I've got a similar experience many years ago. I was a student back then, I've been receiving money from my parents on a monthly basis and that day I've lost all the money for that month and some extra for buying winter clothes for myself.

The only lie was that I didn't find clothes I like yet, but for more than a month I've eaten almost exclusively bread with lard so that I've received new money next month and I've also put aside enough money for those clothes. It was not pleasant and it was a good experience for "if it's too good to be true...", since it was no proper/fair gambling in my case, it was a scam disguised in gambling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game) at the corner of the street.

You're on a difficult situation since the money you gamble was meant for the family foods supposedly and yet you used it to gamble, I'm pretty sure your family wont believe on your any excuses though maybe they'll just think that you steal the money from them, better not to lie at all.

I'm not using important money in gambling, they are meant for the basic needs and not for gambling and beside I have my own budget in gambling so I don't have to lie to my parents or to my wife since their money is still safe with me and of course, I'm providing their needs so there's no reason for them to get mad at me.

I have never lied about it and in fact, every pocket money my parents gave me during my school days was always used in the right way and/or command. It was a lie that happened when I was able to earn my own money by working, when I got a big win at that time when I gambled at an offline bookie but then my parents asked. About the things I got in what way because my parents only knew, basically my income was not enough to buy these things and I lied at that time.

I never got engaged in gambling when I was a kid. My parents, deliberately or not, too often used the expression “lost a fortune to a casino”, “lost all money and became homeless”, etc. when talking about homeless, desperate people or criminals. So growing up I was even afraid to come anywhere near gambling. I never got anti-gambling propaganda, though, it was always somewhere in the middle of the conversation, but somehow it was one of my biggest fears - to lose everything to a casino. It seemed so stupid and sad.

Things have changed since then. Now I gamble, occasionally, but rather carefully and try not to spend too much money.

However, in your case, I would’ve probably told my parents the truth. Parents always can tell when the kid is lying, so by doing so one only makes things worse. I think it’s better to confess and show, that you sincerely regret something and hope for compassion and understanding.

I didn't have to lie, in Africa children are playing cards while betting money, of course it's not a very high amount of money and it doesn't even reach $3, but parents know that children play cards and make bets, the same happens when the children play soccer they place bets on which team will win, and also the children's parents know that their children place bets on soccer games... there are dozens of games that children place bets on in Africa and that the parents know, but it's unbelievable I've never heard any kids become addicted, and I think the reason is simple: because when kids grow up in Africa they don't have the money to go to physical casinos and have little time or interest in making online bets.

I did not come to a point where I have to lie to hide my losses in gambling, when we are young we tend to be like that,  it's not really the amount of money but the way we lose it that we want to hide, who will be on the right mind that will tell his parents that he losses the money because of gambling, our parents will not only beat us they will become very strict on us, no parents will want their children to gamble when they are not yet on the right age.

what? whipped my ass almost a hundred times? ;D ;D really terrible bro, we laughed at the same time can not imagine how your face at this time after being whipped that much. That's a mother and you will definitely miss the times you can't go back to. Now that you are older and know what gambling is like, even if you didn't experience gambling as a child, lies to the mother always get forgiveness without you asking.

Main lesson here is not about "do not lie" but more about do not gambling with the money that should be used for other things.
In other words, we should spend spare money only to gamble.
Frankly speaking, I experienced similar thing when I was on high school when I knew lottery game for the 1st time.
I used to get pocket money from my parents per month because they want to teach me how to spend money wisely.
Unfortunately, I lost my monthly pocket money in few days only because I gambled it in lottery game.
I did not tell my parents about it and I did not ask them for more money, as a consequence I had to work as snack reseller door to door after school.
Fun fact, my parents did not know about what I did till the time I told them when I graduated.  ;D

What did you learn from that experience? For me, that kind of act is childish and why should you do that?

Even your parents will go ravage once you tell them the truth, it's more comfortable to say the truth rather than keep it secret for long. If only you are true to your words, you might get some good advice from your parents instead and they will not get mad.

Don't do that again.

You may not have to put all your fiat money of $45, in that bet, even though you have been awarded $8 in winnings, it may be a trap, to increase your bet, because you have to buy food to take home, if it was me, of course I would have bought food first, the rest of it I just put at stake in gambling games, so I don't have to lie to my parents.

Anyone who has experienced something like you they will lie and say something to say when they get home, because there is no food to take home, let alone your parents, I will be angry if that happens, but if I lie a little, maybe there is still consideration for my parents' anger, you save yourself from anger, because you lost the gamble, with your actions accidentally, a family will be hungry at that time, there is no food you bring.

I had a similar story.  I was a little boy and wanted to find friends. 

In the courtyard of the house, I met a group of boys.  They were all older than me.  They were ruled by a tall red-haired boy named John Silver.  He constantly broke his legs and walked on a crutch. 

He taught me how to play (play dice)  I didn’t know that John Silver was a sharpie and cheated at dice.  He poured lead into dice.  I won the first and second rounds.  However, in the future, I lost all the money that my parents gave me for school meals. 

I suffered from hunger for a whole week.  I haven't told anyone about this.  I was very ashamed.

What a lie OP, I think I've also done that in the past that I've lied to my parents that I've bought food instead because I've lost during I was in high school with my classmates through computers games. Well, what crazy stuff we did before when we were younger but as we grow old, those aren't a thing to us anymore as we've got our jobs, savings, and money. We don't have to tell a lie anymore because we can stand on our own and we can now give back to our parents whether we gamble or not.

From what I can tell, you just got hustled, that's their way of keeping you in he game, they let you win some so they can get you to pull out all the money that you have. I didn't have any experience with this because there's stories that there are people out there that do this and one that I know and familiar with is a chess hustling, it's a coordinated con where there's about 2 or 3 accomplices that will appear as the audience and they appear to solve the puzzle and then until a real one goes in and tries to solve it and it ends up up close to be unsolvable.

Unfortunately I never lied to my parents, and my new OP experience hearing it because I was involved in gambling when I was a teenager and already working and I bet with my working income.
If I were in your position I wouldn't do it because it's a temptation and you don't follow your parents' orders and that's not good, unless you do it out of pocket money your parents give you or wages after buying food. and I hope it doesn't become your habit because if it still happens, you are worse than an addict.

My wife hates gambling and often annoys me when I play. Sometimes, I told her that the deposit money came from monthly bonus, affiliate claim, tips (from @roycilik), and various contests. Just alternate the answer until she gets a bit suspicious. That's how I get away from "punishment" ;D

What you've said is all about the usual thought of everyone about gambling. So what's the experience just as others sharing with what you lied due to gambling?

Reading those replies that they didn't or never lied to their parents egarding gambling got me thinking that am I a bad kid back then? Haha.

I just remembered way back in high school time my experience in playing billiards with cards, it's also a type of gambling which winner takes all the bet instead the typical billiard/pool game. My weekly allowance didn't make it even wednesday due to the addiction in playing and/mostly losing billiards.
I always give my mom a reason that my teacher ask a lot for school projects and paid with my weekly allowance  ;D.

Funny, but it really happened, as we grow and have our owned money now to use for this activity. Those old days that lingering to our minds, funny things that we escape for telling lies to our parents.

Gambling when we still young are part of those good and bad memories. Sometimes we really enjoy since we won some.

But when shit happened to us, we even suffer, I remember I need to walk from school to our house as I emptied my pocket
losing my money with  local gambling games., I need to tell my parent that I left my wallet in my room just to prevent them nagging at me.

Each person is different and it cant really be denied that there are people who never able to lie on their parents in regards to gambling but its impossible to think of that they havent lied for the first time ever
in regards on other matter.

Even myself did really make out some lie but it isnt really for the matter of gambling situation.We as kids does have that kind of behavior on where we do involve some things which isnt really that
right for our age.

Just normal for you to be scolded since we are just young and need to be guided but there are really times which we do really go too far.

Haha... You learned a good lesson while very young, be grateful. Others learn it the hard way - losing much more and ending up addicted.

I used to parlay on football and tennis back in the days. I had quite a knack at it, but I quickly realised it was a loser's game in the long run, but it is fun especially when your favorite team is playing. Adds a little more spice to the game night. ;)