Anything could be gambling

[redsun114]

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.

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.

[chaser15]

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.

[LbtalkL]

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.

[romero121]

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.

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.

[maydna]

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.

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.

[Ailurophile]

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.

[maxreish]

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.

[sunsilk]

Yes it would only depend on us if we would consider them as gambling.

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.

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.

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.

[Meowth05]

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.

[criza]

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.

[verita1]

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.

[ethereumhunter]

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.

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.

[leea-1334]

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.

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.

[LbtalkL]

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.

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.

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.

[Fundamentals Of]

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.

[onrise]

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.

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.

[bitcoinst]

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.

[davinchi]

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.

[fortunecrypto]

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.

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
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[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

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

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.