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Weird Sports You Didn’t Know Existed, Available for Betting Fun (https://www.gosubetting.com/blog/betting-guides/weird-sports-you-can-bet-on/)

After reading this article it got me thinking how many games are out there that most of us haven't even heard of, but they do exist and some groups of people bet on those games. Here in Serbia, everyone bets on popular games, and the cock fighting (just one example) is not popular here, but in illegal circles there are some dog fights. Still, I wish to discuss just "legal games" with available markets in some casinos.

I guess a lot of people heard about these games from the article, but I didn't know that people actually bet on something like this. So I am interested if there is anyone here who bet on "not popular" sports/games, maybe some description, and where we can learn more about that game/sport.

Truly, all sports are turning into business, and not only for athletes. But a game like "Rock, Paper, Scissors" made me laugh out loud when I learned that it is also a gambling game for money. What next? Will we compete in everything where we can be first, hoping only for luck? Since such entertainment as wife-carrying or cheerleader dancing was simple, beautiful, and funny, however, the simpler the idea of the game, the less a person needs to be literate in something and think, and therefore, it is easier to throw away your money.

There is a hot dog eating competition betting that I have read off and it's crazy that people would bet on anything. There are even some types of bets that are not illegal however they are not listed on gambling websites. It is just among the locals in a pub where they have their boards to write their odds against the participants at the event. Mind you some of these competitions are not sports they are just local events that take place periodically.

I guess we should never underestimate humanity's ability to turn the mundane into a competitive sport, in pursuit of amusement they even create this kind of games. Funny running to these kinds of articles, mainly speaking to some of the games probably traditional or whatsoever and it catch my interest in these hidden games I might say. With the combination of variety, creativity, and wits probably in the latter year we will be able to encounter weirder (but harmless) games and eye pleasing. Would it be exciting to watch the preparation of World Rock, Paper, Scissors just imagining these Rocky Balboa vibe and that orchestic background. 8)


Based on what I have seen some legal games like cock fighting had their own platform for betting, I saw both online betting and physical betting.

These sports are quite funny, it's better to stick to what you know, as easy as these sports may seem you would be very surprised that they are hard to predict, wife carrying took me out, it is quite funny...in my opinion I think that before you start thinking of betting on sports you are not familiar with you should take at least three months to understand the game and know what's it like before thinking of betting on it , otherwise you are definitely going to throw your money away..on 1x bet there's an option to bet on gaming competitions between two people e.g call of the duty mobile..it seems easy but how can you know who the better player is cause you might be deceived by the odds

I learned recently that there is usually a game between rams organized by the owners of the ram. These rams are not trained for the sports so I don't know how they get them to fight each other, It's not like they fight for real but what the rams do is lock horns. They stand at a distance facing each other then run at each other and hit each other with their horns then go back again and do it again. They do it till one ram dies, passes out or gives up.
Meanwhile, gambling is going on in that very instant. People are placing bets on which animal will win and are cheering and roaring with a lot of bant. I don't know how legal that is but it's not hidden, especially during festive holidays in some parts of the country.

Wife Carrying - Lol, but yeah, I've seen video of this games or sports and it was really fun but I'm not sure that there is available for betting.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, - for sure every many of us here have played this game when we are still kids and I'm not surprised that you can play with this game but obviously it will be P2P.

There could be other games as well that could be native to certain locally or country but some crypto based gambling platform might carry them from time to time. In any case if you are not aware of this games then don't bet on them simply as that. Some might have easy rules, but there could be games that like involved Harry Potter? If you are not into this novel or movie, then it's not a good game to play.

Not surprised that weird sports is available for betting, as if there is a demand, there will be supply. As to weird sport, I remember once I saw sauna competition on TV. Turns out it was World Sauna Championships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships). I dont really get how this can be called as a sport, as you just watch people sit and get sweaty. Just imagine how people came up with the idea of running such events, how stupid even sound to train for such competition.

Rock paper scissors is very common, we do this for fun in high school and we use our food for the prize, but I never knew that people are still doing this today using money as stake, the truth is these games are only going to attract audience that are so into such games, for someone like myself I don't even care because they aren't my type of games, also I believe they stayed rare or uncommon because many people aren't into such type of games.

I've seen such thing (hard to call it as a sport) as artificial or equestrian (dont know how it supposed to be called), when girl with artificial horse head on stick run on a sand and jump over barriers. Google say it is hobby horsing. Just look on the size (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXLHUSCnzPs) of one of these competitions :D Moreover, this is an international championship, which means such competitions and "sports" happens all around the world. Is this available for betting? If yes, how is it even possible to make a prediction, if 0 depends from a horse skill :D

In recent years, many new sports have emerged and are being added to casinos, for example: Weightlifting, I know it is a sport, but when I see it in the stakes I wonder who bets on it? Another sport that I also find strange is Shooting, I also see that it is added to the stakes and I wonder who bets on Shooting? There is also Sailing, and it is a sport that I wonder who is betting on it, these sports surprised me because I did not expect to see them being added to the casino, Another sport that really surprised me was Darts. who bets on Darts?

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These are the kind of boring sports that I don't watch and wouldn't bet on, it seems like every year the casinos are listing more sports, one day we will see airplane racing being seen as a sport and people betting on it

You know the world population is over 8 billions people, so there is definitely going to be people who are betting on these sports you listed above. It might be unpopular with us but very popular with others. You know when it comes to gambling people mostly bets on sports that they are familiar with. The casinos wouldn't have added those sports to their platform if they don't have people who bet on them, or it could be that people have started developing interest in them and by request from their customers to have those sports added to their platform. But you got me laughing when you said we might start seeing aeroplane racing in casinos someday 😂😂. It will be interesting to have it don't you think so?

Those who loves to drink beer :D Everytime I see a darts championship on TV or YouTube, there are always guys with huge bellies behind tables full of beer on the background as events main spectators :D Darts championship - when simple pub game went to far. When

Those who bet on Sailing are gentlemen's in white gloves, who dont place bets, but instead conclude a bet.
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Weighlifting and shooting looks strange as a sports to bet. As they are so individual and random. It is not like there are top3-5 athletes that compete against each other all the time. Each year there is often a different guy that represents a country. Dont know how to make a prediction who is going to win.

From the sports or games mentioned in the article, I have seen and heard of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Wife Carrying, but I never knew that people can bet on these games and they are available on online platforms for people to bet on because these aren't those sorts of games where you can gain knowledge about the game and players and then place a bet accordingly. Rock, Paper, Scissors is a luck-based game, no one can know what the outcome of it would be, so I don't think it fits in the sports betting industry but it is more like a gambling game where the results are completely influenced by luck.

People bet on crazy things sometimes, and they probably do it only for fun and not to earn money because if you want to earn money, you will only choose sports where you can know which side will have a higher possibility of winning a game and not some random sport you don't know much about.

Rock, paper, scissors seems to be the weirdest of all the mentioned game but what's fascinating is that it's a game that's almost played by everyone and everyone make friendly bet while doing that which doesn't necessarily mean money is involved then why wouldn't be available in the real world betting cause it's so easy to cheat in the game and anyone can master it, just split second difference is what you need to always get a win.

I went through the article link you dropped and I couldn’t stop laughing because  the game names really sounds very funny and I was actually wondering how the names actually came about.
I think you skipped one of the sport like the sack race and I think the sack racing is already listed in some casinos if I’m not wrong and I think if it’s well regulated, it will really be a great idea and an interesting one to watch even while betting on them.

I think judging from what we’re written about those games, a participant can also bet on the games but to the best of my knowledge, players aren’t allowed to bet on their games, I was wondering if players will be allowed to bet on their own games (just think out loud)

I have watched the wife carrying competition and I find it very interesting. Watching men carrying their wives and passing through different obstacles is great fun for me. It will be easy to bet on this game. I will just check the participant whose husband has muscles and will be carrying a slim wife. It is common sense not to bet on a couple in which the wife is fat. I think there is also a husband-carrying competition.


In my area, we have alcohol-drinking and food eating competitions. Participants are served some bottles of beer or food and the one who consumes the highest quantity becomes the winner. Gamblers are always around to bet on their favorite participants. The participants usually have a percentage of every bet placed on them. There was an incident when a participant died because of excess alcohol consumption, so the food game is the most popular currently.

Why are you surprised?
People were known to take bets on the color or brand of the next car entering the city or on the clothes of the next man entering a bar, as more and more grow tired of the same sort of betting you need to offer them new things to bet on, ten days ago betting on esports was seen as madness, look where we are now!


Nothing is more eye-pleasing and at the same time definitely not harmless nor creative than cheese-chasing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZOyPMR0fc

Rock, paper, scissors is a childhood game that is a little strange if it has to involve money to bet usually this game is just for entertainment during childhood with friends doing this game.
There is no betting in casinos for example then this is obviously not all official sports then it will not be available for betting except bets with friends themselves.
Another one holding the wife? I just found out there is this game and made into a bet.

Wow that is indeed a strange game and I almost never touch gambling that uses that game, because the average casino that I play does not have a strange game like that, but it is quite interesting too, but unfortunately games like that do not have many enthusiasts, especially games that are based on local customs or the culture of a particular community environment, will be difficult for most gamblers to understand.

But if it's cockfighting, sheepfighting, I'm quite familiar with such matches.

I got curious and did a quick search on Google about "weirdest sports betting" and I found this article (https://sports.borgataonline.com/en/blog/weirdest-sports-you-can-actually-bet-on/)(full link below), in that article "cow chip tossing" was mentioned and did some more quick searching and found out that it is basically cow dung tossing contest. I can't believe there are people who made a sport out of tossing dried-up cow shit 😂😂

https://sports.borgataonline.com/en/blog/weirdest-sports-you-can-actually-bet-on/

One fact about sports nowadays, it has become attached to gambling and this is how most of the casinos become happy about it.

Cockfighting, dogfighting, spiders fighting and any other animal fights seems always have betting on the side.

And the same goes to animal racing, dog racing, I even saw mouse racing before IIRC. And there so much more that are unique but I agree about OPs concern that these unique yet weird should be only the legal ones.

Well, a presidential election betting has become a norm these days but before it was one of the weirdest.

Quidditch was unexpected lol. I'd imagine if science were to ever advance so that we can make actual brooms fly then it'd definitely be something that would grow and develop. Granted there might be better ones to be made out there but hey, if HP fans still exist by then I expect it to happen.

Now Rock paper scissors though, that's weird. That thing can basically be a luck-based game. Decision making? In that split moment? Nah, that's just luck. I know everybody knows it and still is probably a part of our lives at some point but personally, that would already say that it's just, well, based on luck. I mean I use it to make decisions that I can't decide on lol, like coin flip!

This is also the first article that came out, I also saw that cow chip tossing. Very funny but weird indeed. These are the others that have appeared on me but seeing esports on this list is no longer a weird thing for me because it has been part of the professional scene nowadays. Anyway, here are the other weird sports that it says not from the article but from the top of google results upon searching this one;

• Reindeer racing
• Wife carrying race
• Arm wrestling
• Chess boxing

and many more...

In fairness to arm wrestling, this seems to be not that weird anymore as it's gaining popularity nowadays.

I haven't yet betted on those not popular sports games but I know some people who betted on such strange games and a few of them even earn profits by doing that.

There are games like cock-fighting and Pheasant-fighting where gambler place bets and earn profits if their bet goes well. I avoid such games personally but some people like such games.

Concerning cock fighting game, i think it has been discussed some times back maybe a year now, the truth is that if we look in directly towards the aim on why people were investing into gambling business is because they can make money from it, but come to think of it this way, some sport were olden days gaming activities in which they may not be able to fit in now on some of the modern and advanced sporting activities, people were aware of some of these sports, but they consider the ones invoke and introduce them in, it wont make sense to be having a number of games in which the gamblers are not interested in playing.

In our south Asian region from offline games Cock fighting game it is popular here there is also another popular games that is Bull Fighting which held on villager fair. I don't have any experience on them for betting but here the local peoples do bet on those games for sure. And they also enjoy it like we enjoy the football, Cricket. But those games are also losing there existing for the modern world order.
Anyway I have just explore more about the some Weird sports games just see the complete list  (https://www.topendsports.com/sport/unusual/list.htm)and laugh.  ::)

Human invented gambling amd sports which means humans can go at length to gamble with anything that they think of just to have fun and make profit. I am surprised at these new sports that gamblers have already started using to bet which is not known to some part of the country.

Wife carrying....makes me to flash back on a sport show that I do watch on TV when I was a kid with various task to carry out amd the first to finish his own task is the winner of the game. I live watching that sport show because every week they come up with strange sports competition.

As for cockfighting then it is really that something that popular here in our country.

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We do have several sites mentioned above on where you could be able to take up some bets but of course it would really be something that be interesting specially into local.
Its not really something that popular in other countries but rather this one considered to be that animal cruelty. As for those dog fights then i do able to hear of those things on which
this is really indeed existing on illegal places on which this one cant really be possibly be legalized.

Just like on what others been saying that human beings does really have that capability on making up those things to be sports as long they could be able to put
up some bets into it. Some of those games or gambling is really that been part of their cultural specially this "SABONG" or cockfight in the Philippines on which this is something
very popular and its been long time that been part of the culture on having something like this.

Teqball, last year I saw there is a market for this kind of sport and it looked unique because it's like playing ping pong but with feet and a soccer ball.

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And another one is Curling, which makes me confused, why this type of game can be considered as a sport. And the market for Curling is already available in many sportsbooks.

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Cockfighting is one of the sports that i want to see flourished in the online world. It begun to blossom in the Philippines but sadly it had to stop because of the negative impact it had on the community but business-wise, tons of money goes to the operator of this business. If only i'm a wizard that can create a platform for cockfighting then i could be a millionaire already  8).

What is certain is that gambler will never bet on game or sport that they have never known before, if they do bet it may only be out of curiosity and only do it once or twice.
Every gambler has their own favorite game or bet and of course they will always prioritize it, playing and betting on new things also often experience more failures.
I sure only few gamblers play and bet there.
Moreover, for things like that, there may only be many on local gambling sites, for large gambling sites with global use, they will definitely only provide games or bets that are already popular.

Everything that strives depends on how much publicity is made about it, or how much time has been spent to improvise for a fair and unique gambling experience etc.. "I scrolled through my feed profusely as I lost a glimpse of a video that caught my interest, then I stumbled on a video -- THE SLAP game.. they called it POWER SLAP or something. I laughed so hard like I hadn't for quite a long time."
Most of those games don't really have complex rules as compared to regular casino games. Bookies are only tryna keep them in place for as long as people find interest in them. In all, I find it more relaxing if I play on spot games.

If it's being played, someone is betting on it somewhere. That is true for nearly everything, even little things such as the color of gatorade poured on the coach after the win. People, whether it be bookies or regular people, see an opportunity to make a dollar, then they will try to make a market for it.

Watch some of the famous poker players on some of the televised cash games and listen to some of the silly things they have bet on. There was 1 guy that got breast implants and had to keep them for a year, another guy who lived in a bathroom for a month while people still used the bathroom, and all sorts of crazy stuff.

I know cheerleading but I didn't know betting is available for that one. I might check that one if ever there is a big cheerleading tournament that will happen.
Quidditch? Now that's really weird. I thought it was only from the books of Harry Potter and it cannot be done as a real sport but I guess they found a way to make it come to life. Still, I have never seen a betting line for that game.
I understand there's a slot game like Rock, Paper, and Scissors but if it's a tournament then that's more awesome. The wife-carrying game on the other hand seems to be a local game so it's more prone to fix match and I don't want to be betting on the other side if ever I see a betting line open.

Nice share OP, thank you.

This is the essence of human mind which could bet on anything it couldn't comprehend in full. I think such behavior is just the try to make the amends to itself for the lack of knowledge on events the mind is betting on otherwise it could be counterproductive just to observe, let's say the notional the hot-dog-eating competition.

That's actually true, after so many conversations in this forum about gambling I discovered some type of gambling I never thought of as gambling. like the cock fight you have mentioned and also the dog fight. I have noticed the bull and ram fight and some other form of traditional gambling use only in the rural areas. One thing I observed is that the only gambling popular are the online casinos which football betting is most popular and easy to predict compeard to other traditional gambling. That is why people don't mostly focus on them. If those traditional games can be studied very well like football, and added to online casinos, they will have been popular and used as an alternative or second option aside football.

It's just that some key sports have gained relevance over small sports that are just coming into the limelight of not, there are a lot of sports that are out thier that people in different localities are conversant with and that are not even on most official betting platforms. The slipping sports that's has made wave accross different media platforms aren't on most betting site and yet one popular sports that most people enjoy watching.  Even the one where you're to carry a lady from a spot to another has gained recognition accross different region and is now one of the regular event that takes place during weeding in my region where the man is told to carry his wife from a spot to another. Some of these sports aren't necessarily going to be something you will have to bet your money on and might just be for the fun that comes with it but it's good to also experience multiple of sports so as to get to see different levels of fun in different context.

I haven't heard about Wife Carrying and Underwater Hockey before in my life and I haven't seen these games in any casino, so I think it's almost impossible to bet on these games for most of us.
To be honest, I don't bet on unpopular games because it's impossible to predict the outcome when you have no idea about the game and its participants. I have made such bets in the past and won some games with 10 odds but I don't risk it anymore, maybe I'll bet only for fun here and there.

A local online casino offers a p2p game where you make a game offer with a bet amount, then a person who wants to connect with you, clicks play on your offer and you two are connected p2p. You and your opponent have some seconds to choose Rock, Paper or Scissors, then the result appears and the winner gets the point.
I think it will be good if many crypto casinos implement such p2p games where users try their luck against each-other.

This is an interesting thread, seeing the article that you posted. The wife's carrying is new to me, but the others are things I have encountered in some way. When I read this, I thought of things that make you do Anything and then turn it into a competitive thing. Then, you can form a possible market in the gambling space where people can also bet.

Thanks for sharing this OP.

I would never bet or gamble in a market that is clearly illegal without any form of warranty.
Moreover, I would never bet or gamble in a "small" market likewise a minor sport or minor series.
Since these players on these events are getting really low payment (most of the times they play like an hobby and not for economic return) it could be easy they can get tricked with rigged events and so on...
By the way for all of these sports in article posted by OP I haven't never seen nothing on main bookmakers (and sincerly I have really doubts there are markets for these "games"/sports).

Anyone could bet on any game or sport they like. I'm not surprised they have betting on that, but I didn't know that type of game really existed for betting. Well, that's interesting, but here's my question: has anyone already bet on that kind of sport/game? And is it available on our very own bookies here? I'm just curious, since it's already been shared, so might as well ask if anyone has experience betting on it.

actually in some locality in my country this game is existing specially in fiesta but not sure if there are someone betting on this and yeah this is not in existing in any betting site available here .


I have watched this once when i visited a relatives somewhere and yeah this is really a exciting and fun game.

If I am not mistaken, cockfighting is one of the oldest activities on which bets began to be placed. In addition, bets on these fights are known throughout the world, with a predominance in the Southern countries. Thus, in ancient times, poor people entertained themselves by betting on one of the fighting cocks. In my opinion, these cocks were also equipped with steel spurs so that the fight would not be too long.

I do not approve of such entertainment, as it encourages cruelty.

from my own view, its more better for us to gamble on sports activities we are conversant with and that are trusted, this will help a lot because they are being made open to the public and not that we go for some kind of weird betting whereby we secretly bet on rare games which we cannot boast or come out in public to announce about what we do, gambling is for fun and betting is legality.

Anything can be bet on; gamblers have unlimited imagination when it comes to betting. All the events listed in the article are popular in our country; we are also betting on rock, paper and scissors, wife-carrying and cheerleading.
Our fiestas offer many events on which people can bet. We are doing this for fun, and the organizers of the events think of sporting events in which people can participate and bet.
The most popular event that we hold is palosebo
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There is no point in betting on unpopular games because the smaller the market, the greater the likelihood of various kinds of insider/fraud, so bookmakers accept bets on such markets with very bad odds. It is better to bet on popular markets where the bookmaker's margin is 4-6 percent than on some exotic ones where it is closer to 8% or higher.
I don't understand the whole idea - if you like some exotic sports/entertainment, you don't necessarily have to bet on them.

The Wife carrying sports is hilarious but I do bet on unfamiliar market sometimes like the dog race on some sportbook. I just don’t bet consistently and just doing it for fun and curiosity for the result since I can’t watch the game live due to the broadcast restrictions.

I think many user here doesn’t bet regularly on this kind of sports since it’s not televised globally or it’s very hard to access the stream since this games is unique and not that widely available in most country.

I just want to add the Curling sports which I’m not aware that this is already an olympic sports. I frequently just watch it on fb reels but I never thought it’s already an olympics sports.

Maybe we here often see articles writing strange bets that we have never seen around us, @Joe has attracted the attention of the community here by writing interesting articles, but I can't imagine what it would be like if the Quidditch game in the Harry Potter films were played in the real world, whether anyone in this world could control a flying broomstick, I don't know.

But of the several types of games that I saw in the article written by @Joe, only one game that I have seen is: (holding the wife) which is done when commemorating my country's independence day, In fact, the most exciting part of the game is taking/carrying someone's wife wrongly, because the player's eyes are closed, which is great.

Indeed, the insight into sports games is diverse, I admit that Asia has hundreds of types of games that are unique and no less exciting than the various games, essentially they are all for entertainment, We hope that in the future we will see unique games added to gambling sites.

This is no novelty I think, as I agree with coin-investor:


Gambling has been with mankind since its inception as a form of exciting pastime if you have a chance to win or lose something. It is not uncommon in the internet age to find more variety. There are even types of local gambling that we do not know about but are popular in remote villages and regions.

But why do you need to announce to the publice what you are doing especially gambling achievements? Even with regular bets I never announced anything about it in the public because there’s nothing to gain.

There’s nothing wrong on betting with exotic games given that you will enjoy it. All this games are unique and fun to watch while adding some bet on it will spice your watch mood.

Imo, it’s only wrong to bet on it if you are just betting randomly without any reference for your bets. Same application to any type of bets even with normal sports.

People just need a reason to gamble, that is all. So they take up every game they can think or or have been thought of and put money on it. This is because the need to gamble is inherent in humans and risk taking provides a good stimulation to anyone's brain.

Most of us have seen these games in action but it is not difficult to comprehend that they are sources for gambling too.

When you can bet behind the table on full blackjack tables, there is no surprise here.

Perhaps such games will be interesting to those who consider gambling entertainment without any speculation about unfairness. I think that there are no expensive bets involved, and it is unlikely that anyone will play them regularly. A simple test of luck and at the same time a fun pastime. After all, the moment of competition is always interesting when winning is motivated by profit.

Strange sports... But I'm sure it won't be available in many casinos because it's not a sport most people are familiar with.

Rock Paper Scissors is a childhood game, but don't think it can be bet on, and how to judge this bet.

Carrying the wife? This is a little difficult for me to understand... maybe for sports or races there is something to bet on that is a little more difficult to figure out.

such games will be suitable for a break when starting to get tired in other games that may be quite demanding of focus. unpopular sports games have few enthusiasts to be seen in terms of profitable bets. except for sports that are indeed popular in certain areas and online casinos are indeed from those areas. a strategy to get their local gamblers.

Weird sports we didn’t know existed, available for betting haha to be honest after i read  in other thread that there is gambling about an artist and politics it just make me think can anything use as a gamble nowadays haha.

And after read the article rock paper scissors can act as game but Competitive Cheerleading and Quidditch i dont know this even exist hahaha

What, you thought those were potato chips for cows?  ;D
Oh, and coming from a guy who spent decades at a farm, those are dried just as the ones used for fuel were, they don't smell or anything.


It's been banned in a ton of countries and hopefully, soon in every single one of them, it's the most pointless game of all, this and bullfighting need to end, if anyone says anything about tradition then we should also ring back gladiator games too.

Not everyone know about this games and not all bookies have them available in their game options. The truth is not everyone will be familiar with most of them these unpopular games and only few people place bet on them. People place bet on the games they are well familiar with and I also belong to this category.  The bookies are also interested to provide what people are seeking for so they would generate a good income. And yes, some reputable bookies offer some of these unpopular games but some other bookies offer limited games based on what their customers are after.

There're only about six popular sports games that are mostly prioritized by gamblers in my country, and the most popular one is soccer. Although I know that there are some dedicated gamblers who can actually bet on any form of activity, they are aware that they can make a profit if the bet is successful. For example, there's someone I know who placed a bet on their friend. The bettor was in doubt that his friend could not finish twelve bottles of beer, so he decided to place a huge bet and was surprised that the guy finished it all and won the money. People can really do wired things for the sake of betting, but there are some of those wired games that cannot be added to casinos.

If someone are not betting on those games that are not popular it shows that they don't know about them even though they knows it means they aren't fan of it and could be hard for them to bet it. Using that example you made mentioned I will say it's not popular either in my country rather people loves betting on regular games such as sports betting which includes; soccer, Tennis, Baseball, basketball, hockey game and so many on. Like I does, most times I am trying to learn different games so I can pick up interest to start betting on them but what matters is time factors since I barely have free moment to do everything I wanted to run on within and before my 24hrs runs out.

Gambling is not easy and there is no escape route unless we are deceiving ourselves, it will get worse looking for extra games, especially if we are not familiar with them. We have thousands of games to choose from already, they may be popular or relatively popular, it doesn't matter, for me, they are enough to give us the winning we desire, or stress/frustration of their own as the case may be. This is because they will always rely on luck to win. So if I should advise you, I would only say that you should be contented with those you already know and not further look for gambling troubles. :)

Per country and culture, there are a lot of weird activities going on which include gambling and as you call some animal fighting games illegal in some countries, it is legal in many other countries. In mine, there is enough cock/bull/ram fighting where people will gather in an informal setting to place their bet. It is always fun but no one can know the winner, it's all about luck, so what's the difference?

The same goes for a particular game called "ayo olopon" in my country, one may bet on either side playing, but still, no one would know the winner, that's how tough gambling is.

The article mentioned by the OP features a few casinos, such as Stake, BC Game, and a few others; perhaps these casinos offer them? Who knows? Anyway, it's the first time I'm encountering such a thing. I wasn't aware that such "sports" existed, let alone that you can bet on them. I've never come across them anywhere I've played, but to be honest, I wouldn't have noticed even if they were a thing. Perhaps they're a fun way to mess around with a few spare dollars; I'm not sure if I'd do it.

I think people are only calling them weird sports because they do not know about the sports or are not betting on them but for those that patronized the sports, they would not find them wired. Watching the Olympics, I have noted many new sports that I did not know about and have not gambled on them. I will be doing more research on the sports and should be betting on them when the next Olympics comes around. This should mean there are many other sports too that we do not know about but we should not called them weird. I just discovered that there is a sport that involved people slapping eachother and you can bet on them too but for people who do not know about this sport, they will called it weird when they see people betting on it. People can make money in any sport they like.

Many people might see this weird sports as opportunities to make money in gambling but I see it as a way the bookmakers take your money without stress. As simple as you think these games are they might actually be the hardest to predict, I even heard that a bet site added a food eating competition to their options to bet on,very funny. Personally I wouldn't even try to put my money there cause I'm not really familiar with them, I'm okay with betting on football, basketball and occasionally ice hockey

I had the inkling feeling that it was what I thought it was (which is dried-up cow dung), I just wanted to be sure so I did a quick search just to be sure, I still find it funny that they found a sport for it 😂

weirdly enough I never found arm wrestling as a weird sport to bet on.

I just finished reading the article and I'm surprised that those sports could actually be betted on, normally individuals could bet offline in the arenas where those sports are held, but it's lovely to see that there's a platform where people could bet on those sports, one of the most interesting one that's caught my attention, is the Rock, Paper, Scissors, it's one of those sports games that made my childhood fun. In the article they questioned if it's more of a game of chance or skill, I think it's mostly a game of chance but then there's this skill I use in confusing my opponent which is looking directly into their eyes and smile in a way that would make them lose focus so skill is needed too. As for Quidditch am familiar with the game cause I've seen the Harry Potter movie but then I'm wondering how it's been played and betted on cause I know the players in the movie used magic to play the game, just curious you know and that's something I'll do my findings on.

I think that most of us bet on the most popular sports, but to be more specific, most of us bet on the sports that we Know the most about. There are sports like Swimming , athletics and cycling that are very good sports, very hard, but in reality they don't have betting opportunities, it's very difficult for them to establish them, but also in the forum I have realized that at least there are many who follow cycling, in some way they may be practicing it or are Passionate about it, but I think that the casinos don't have them because it's not profitable to put them on.

You would really be able to see those changes yet we are living on a hi-tech or digital era on where things could really be possible to be offered online, payments or betting could really be done digital then it would really be that likely that they will really be making such option and thats why it would really be that possible that any one on the world or globe could be able to make up some bets but of course there would really be specific terms and conditions on which they could really be able to follow if someone would really be wanting to make bets specially on locally focused type of sports such as this. There would really be those weird type of things on which someone couldnt be able to see into those typical sports betting that we do really know. There are things that exist that we arent expecting that it could really be that possible.

When it comes to animal based or involved kind of sports such as mentioned on OP then majority will really be that skeptical on trying out to deal up with things just because they dont really like
about animals that are getting involved when it comes to this.So it would really be that varying on how you would really be handling out yourself on choosing on which betting
you would really be liking and on how you would really be that deciding to choose up.

I genuinely didn't know there were so many league of legends clones. Seems like so many companies have been looking to capture this market and amazingly at least on mobile many of these games seem even better than the original. It's interesting how much of an audience many of these games seem to have in many Asian countries.

But over here they'll be known mostly as league of legends rip offs. Well, interestingly stake and many other bookmakers take bets on several MOBA games now and not just LoL and Dota. Good to see competition but I guess that means no one game is going to be the king of the hill with the biggest attendance and audience as LoL and Dota used to compete with each other for.

I guess before that it's weird when it's a plain sport and kids playing this on the playground. But it has become in some way that because of the emergence of sports betting and it's already attached to it. And there's a growing community on it and that's why the popularity of it is becoming bigger nowadays and there are more audience that are watching these kind of contents on the web. It's no longer weird at all and it has become a norm sport and I guess just some more recognition on it and we'd see more international competitions about arm wrestling. What's weird here is that skinny boys that I've watched are stronger in arm wrestling than of those with huge muscles and biceps.

Same here in the Philippines, cockfighting was also legal before but after a lot of criminal cases related to cockfighting government halted all operators from cockfighting there are still a lot of underground cockfighting events which it is really illegal, some making it available online so you can bet online but some are afraid because those matches could be only replay of fights before.

It's kinda weird for me but but for other countries that it's common, it's not weird.

Nowadays people are inventing everything to make some money.
The strange thing for me, actually, is that you call it "sport", for me, a lot of what is mentioned there is just an invention to make more money... or would they exist beyond the game if there weren't money involved?

Sport is something that people practice as a hobby, a leisure activity, a profession or a way of exercising, but if it exists only to encourage a bet involving money... then it can be anything, but never a sport.

Anyway... I prefer to stick to what is more traditional and safe for my bets.

Cockfighting remains legal until today. However, it has to be in an actual arena and betting is done manually. What was made illegal are online cockfighting betting operations, which became very popular during the pandemic because actual cockfighting in arenas were prohibited following the directive that mass gatherings should be avoided. Online betting on cockfights was controversial on various grounds. Other than the crimes related to it, the social cost of it was also quite high. It was too accessible and was operating 24/7. That caused massive addiction among bettors.

Now, everything's back to normal. Cockfighting resumes but limited to physical arenas. No more online betting.

Absolutely right, such an activity as bullfighting has no place in the modern civilized world in 2024.
Gambling contains a huge variety of games, and everyone can find something to their taste.
Animals should not suffer because someone wants to observe stupid traditions or because he likes animals torturing each other.

Back when we are just kids, we are used to gamble in a spider fight. Like literally 2 spiders fighting with each other and the winner will eat the other one. I know it sounds absurd and it doesn't happen in most countries, but we find it entertaining at that time. Maybe we might see something like that in the future as well? I mean I didn't expect a sport called "Powerslap" emerged. Also, these very basic games are the ones that we didn't expect to be available for betting online, but it happens.

What's next? Aside from spider fight that I said, I wonder if we have a sport for arm wrestling already? Anyway, sports are becoming weirder and weirder nowadays. It's all about money like you said at the end of the day, and they don't care about the entertainment factor.

Something we may not know about gambling is that most gamblers only bets on certain nature of games that they are familiar about, games they could find fun playing with the ability to fit analysis the games and not just leaning of picking the odds lon zigzag.

Some gamblers occasionally visits some kind of weird games to bet on at times definitely giving an utmost lucky trial if they might be able to win even though the games seems uninteresting.

So literally... There could be those games listed in the casinos which are unfamiliar to you but are being familiar with some other players. The thing is that majority of gamblers love to bet on popular games.

I grew up seeing this type of gambling, especially during festive seasons, ram owners and people who bought rams for celebration will be carrying them to popular spots for entertainment and gambling. The owners of the rams and bystanders will bet on the rams that will win, the rams will continue to lock horns until one of them injures or gives up on defeat. Although the sport is less popular now than it was before, maybe there's a restriction on it now. I doubt that any casinos will put up a game like that because of animals rights protection.

Yes there's!

The World Arm wrestling Championship was founded in 1977 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Armwrestling_Championship), the competition has been exist for 47 years. If I'm not mistaken arm wrestling quite popular in the last 1-2 year(2).

Quidditch fall to a way of exercising.
Cheerleading fall to practice as a hobby.
Rock, paper, scissors fall to a leisure activity.
Wife carrying fall to a way of exercising.
Underwater Hockey fall to a way of exercising.

Isn't all of them are sports based on your definition? :D

I am placing bets on football; it's the only sport for which I have some generic knowledge that I can put to use. Occasionally, I also bet on basketball, but I'm mostly a football fan. I'm understanding that there's an audience for these "sports" to be provided by casinos. I'm guessing people are mostly messing around since I can't find a plausible reason to bet on something that can't really be considered a sport and, second, on something that you're completely unfamiliar with. This is why the majority of gamblers avoid such games.

People will call it weird because weird is an unusually action or activity and when you (anyone) are not conversant with something, you will not see that thing as strange to you but it can be strange (weird) to another person probably because the person has not seen such action/activity before or the person doesn't like like such kinds of activity.

For example, apart from the slapping game you mentioned, someone also mentioned about a game of eating dog meat where gamblers are betting on the game. Earlier before now, I have heard about a game where gamblers place a bet on someone to eat a large chunk of raw beef. Those are weird for me because I have not witnessed it and even if I do, I will only place a bet but can not take part in eating such things.

its just unusual to others but to the people where the game was created, its not. we have some local games as well that other culture may find it weird but its been done every time a festival date arrives. like chasing a muddy pig.

it could just be culture. if other countries let their dogs fight, in my country its the roosters.

That's easy. You predict a country to win. For instance, you have shooters from different countries compete at the Olympics. You bet on who gets what medal. It's the same as betting on boxers in a match, you just choose the winner.

Do you really think that shooting is strange? There's so many shooting competitions on international level, like biathlon.

However, another sport I was able to just discover which gained mass popularity last year 2023 when it got launched by a mixed martial arts fighter "Dane White" is "Power Slap", of which only recently during my research was able to discover that it also offers a gambling ability for people to gamble on which person likely a win a Slap match set between two individuals. So literally, this is one weird game I will gladly love to place a bet on, as a gambler is likely to have a better winning chance if he place a bet on a fighter who has proven to show more endurance skill to withstand heavy slaps which comes it's way.

Moreover, I will be glad if anybody knows a reputable Bitcoin casino which offers this game, as I was only about to see a single casino which offers the gambling of this currently from its official website. However, I will be glad if you do your own research.  

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How to bet on link: https://www.powerslap.com/news/how-and-where-to-bet-on-power-slap-online/

Dunno if this counts as a weight sport but my friends and I had this thing way back in Pandemic times where we bet on gambling in the literal sense. We have this thing set up where we'd play the same games each day, and whoever bags the most wins gets to keep the prize money which we pooled up with. Like I said it's kind of weird but in a manner of speaking not really, it's just that I haven't heard nor saw someone do the same thing especially since it adds a level of complexity to gambling which is somewhat unprecedented.

In any case, it was fun, it actually was the gateway for gambling for me, as if that hadn't happened I think I wouldn't be introduced to gambling now, and I'd be bored as balls back in 2020 while everyone's out social distancing themselves and dying from the literal plague.

Shooting isn't strange at all to be and it's true that there has been a lot of competitions happening globally. Some local communities are even having their own times getting together and just enjoying the fire at ranges. It's not only for military men to do it but they've got advantages because they've got experience in the field. But for some casual shooter, it can be a hobby. And with the recent viral shooting guy of Turkiye in the Olympics, it's possible that there will be more people that are going to be interested on this sport.

See? It looks like what I have said above is correct, hehe. It's only surprising up until this point on why there is now an international championship for this sport or game when I think many people in the world like me haven't heard of this before but thanks for letting me and others know it exclusively on this thread/post right here. Since there is a horse there and its scheme is still like a sport, I wouldn't be surprised if one day we can now see this in the popular events such as the Olympics, or it will now be added in one of the categories of our favourite sports betting website. That's cool though and many are for sure going to support it.

These games are extremely weird. I wonder if the butt slap or face slap games still existed. Because at some point i was actively following them on their sports channel on Instagram and YouTube. Funny enough i enjoyed the female player where they have to slap each others butt until one of them cant endure the pain anymore and quit. Its of funny that you have to see their face or butt so red and with the face games , some people barely made it out with full conscience. Most of them pass out when they cant hold it anymore.

Such games are illegal and wouldn't want to be included in casinos. Am sure by now they must have banned or restrict these games i mentioned so far.

I've only seen a few clips of slapping competitions (since it's something I'm initially disgusted by) and I can't understand how it can be legal? When I see men weighing 100-120 kilograms slap each other, I don't understand how they don't lose their hearing or get some kind of brain damage. It's not fun at all at a high level of competition (when extremely strong athletes are involved).

That's what I'm saying: people usually see something as strange if it's something they have not done, witnessed, or imagined to be. For example, just as you are talking about some cultural practices, it made me remember something about some traditionalists who use juju to perform some magic during their cultural activity day. There is some hide-and-seek magic that will be performed, and you will be asked to bet with real money where the item that was hidden can be found. 

If you are not from there, there are some of the activities you will find interesting if you are told about them. 

Like the dog fighting you talked about, I wanted to ask: do people stake money in the game? 

Yes, it would really be that cultural basis when it comes into this aspect on which we know that each country does have that different kind of culture on which there might be things that looks unusual but this had been done through ages and people would really be that commonly be doing this but not for other people around the globe on which its normal. It might look odd but they are already getting used to it.

Therefore, if cockfighting is really that looking new into you and you do got interest on it then you could really that able to make up some bets but of course its not really that literally or physically on which there are site or platforms on which offering some betting which is really that good and making up that kind of different experience.We do know that once curiosity do kicks in then people would really be trying out to engage no matter what. There are really just those individuals who wouldnt really be touching up these things because of that animal cruelty issues on which its not really that shocking on that part.

There are really thing that existing on which we arent that getting used to. We are really that solely focused into those things on which it is really that globally popular or recognized.
Its not really that something an issue because everything will really be basing up on cultural aspect just like on what have been said earlier.

Yes, people bet on these things and it's a niche because in some cultures like in South America people are used to that, but in other parts of the world like Europe, such things are banned.
You can't organize any kind of animal fights here, especially dog fights and despite being pretty open to different cultures I support the decision. Dog fights are just too cruel to be happening under the law.