What is the Strangest Bet You Have Ever Had?

[stomachgrowls]

During our high school and college years, we all love to make bets with our friends, and it can be done almost several times a day. It's hard to remember what I did the craziest thing for money, but I think I climbed up the third floor of the women's dormitory down the drainpipe. We were a little drunk at the time, but I won a case of beer. I'll remember that bet for the rest of my life.   

If you are a type of person who does have lots of friends and this would usually be happening on your elementary or high school days on which these kind of bets could really be made out on point basing up on moods
in between you and your friends.Same as yours on which i do have lots of experience about these odd way of betting on things and thats why i cant remember on which one would be the strangest.
Usually this would really be talking about those common actions if ever you and your friends would really be seeing something along the way. I cant point out which one
but for sure i do have those youthful days to be an enjoying one.

[SirLancelot]

Gambling or betting is moving beyond just casinos and sports to other sectors of the economy. There is a thread here on betting for the 2024 United States election, and another one for the Oscars. I have seen people bet on movie characters and all sorts of things. This is not to say that they are addicted to gambling. I think we do it for fun, as a form of socializing. While thinking about it today, I wondered what the strangest bet I had ever had was. I remembered having a bet with my brother that he would give me $80 if I could eat 5 packs of 200g of instant noodles in less than 5 minutes, and if I couldn't, I would give him $90. What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

I think the three that you mentioned there which are; Election, Oscars, and Movie Character betting are still considered to be normal. There is also miss universe. I don't consider them as strange bets at all. Do you know the gambling site called Futurr? Not sure if I spelled it correctly but this gambling site is the ones that offer strange bets and not only limited to those events we talked about earlier.

Indeed, betting on these things doesn't mean that we are now a certified gambling addict but we only find them interesting. It also has to do with our personality. We are the type who like to venture on newer things and we can get easily bored on the existing ones that we are doing.

[Cantsay]

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it means you are not a confident person, I still remember that bet and I can't forget it maybe because of my high level of confidence at that time and thought that that woman would prefer me over my friend but it turned out to be far from what I imagined, lol

Yeah, it's true that I don't have too much confidence when it comes to public speaking but I have had some development and I'm no longer that naive when I'm around people and joining discussions here also helped mist especially when it comes to sharing ideas with others that are of higher intellect. Indeed bitcointalk has been a big help in my life both socially and mentally. 

[Fortify]

Gambling or betting is moving beyond just casinos and sports to other sectors of the economy. There is a thread here on betting for the 2024 United States election, and another one for the Oscars. I have seen people bet on movie characters and all sorts of things. This is not to say that they are addicted to gambling. I think we do it for fun, as a form of socializing. While thinking about it today, I wondered what the strangest bet I had ever had was. I remembered having a bet with my brother that he would give me $80 if I could eat 5 packs of 200g of instant noodles in less than 5 minutes, and if I couldn't, I would give him $90. What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

Personally it was betting on the most recent presidential election in the US for Biden and it was a little strange to see the bet settle so late after what should have been a clear outcome. Think the gambling company paid out after a few days but the bet sat in my account for another few months while all the legal wrangling was taking place through the courts. I even remember there were some pretty crazy odds against Trump winning his first presidential election campaign that would have paid off nicely if people took the chance on him at the time. Now though he is too tarnished, bitter and is unlikely ever to make it back successfully into that position again.

[KTChampions]

Betting makes routine events fun. So I think it's a good idea to make them fun by betting on things that are starting to get boring... When I was a kid, we went on a boring tent camping holiday as a family. My brother and I had a bet when we were doing a stone skipping race on the sea. The person with the lowest score carried water for the dishes that night. Damn it was a bad try and I carried water for the dishes because he was better at it than me. Looking back now, I see this incident as one of the weirdest allegations and memories I've ever made in my life. It wasn't something that involved money, but we managed to turn a routine event into fun. I think that's what matters.

I think it has little to do with betting since it was a competition in the first place. And secondly, betting implies that everything is decided by luck, that is, each player has a chance, and this is where the fun lies. Competing in skill is fun too, but making an absurd bet (such as that one of several pigeons will fly first) and waiting for a result you can't influence is also fun.

[rahmad2nd]

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I think the three that you mentioned there which are; Election, Oscars, and Movie Character betting are still considered to be normal. There is also miss universe. I don't consider them as strange bets at all. Do you know the gambling site called Futurr? Not sure if I spelled it correctly but this gambling site is the ones that offer strange bets and not only limited to those events we talked about earlier.

Indeed, betting on these things doesn't mean that we are now a certified gambling addict but we only find them interesting. It also has to do with our personality. We are the type who like to venture on newer things and we can get easily bored on the existing ones that we are doing.

To be honest, I didn't find the essence of the gamble you mentioned in this thread. before I want to say, that I would not say it is the strangest gamble. but for me personally, I did not find the essence of the bet. I mean, the fun I'll get from the election betting session, Oscar winner, Miss Universe.

In my country there are also local casinos that make betting as we mentioned in this thread. maybe, most people like gambling like that. So, there's nothing wrong if someone likes it and it doesn't mean they are gambling addicts. related to personality, maybe you can think like that, but gambling is your own choice, if you like it then you can bet with it if not then you can look for other options.
IMO, actually the essence of the OP's thread, more of a weird bet towards traditional gambling, it's just that the OP is lifting from a thread that seems very unfamiliar to him. yes, at least, I caught the OP's thinking like that.

[DaNNy001]

Gambling or betting is moving beyond just casinos and sports to other sectors of the economy. There is a thread here on betting for the 2024 United States election, and another one for the Oscars. I have seen people bet on movie characters and all sorts of things. This is not to say that they are addicted to gambling. I think we do it for fun, as a form of socializing. While thinking about it today, I wondered what the strangest bet I had ever had was. I remembered having a bet with my brother that he would give me $80 if I could eat 5 packs of 200g of instant noodles in less than 5 minutes, and if I couldn't, I would give him $90. What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

I think I have placed bet on all kind of strange stuff and by strange I mean stuffs like racing between me and wife but we kinda do it for fun though, I just challenge her on a quick race staking a small amount of cash to the race of $30 to the actual winner of the bet, sometimes we also gamble on who is actually the best cook and my children actually act as the judge to the bet to give the decision to who is the winner and actually the greater cook but all this we just do for fun.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Gambling or betting is moving beyond just casinos and sports to other sectors of the economy. There is a thread here on betting for the 2024 United States election, and another one for the Oscars. I have seen people bet on movie characters and all sorts of things. This is not to say that they are addicted to gambling. I think we do it for fun, as a form of socializing. While thinking about it today, I wondered what the strangest bet I had ever had was. I remembered having a bet with my brother that he would give me $80 if I could eat 5 packs of 200g of instant noodles in less than 5 minutes, and if I couldn't, I would give him $90. What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

As for me, my strange bet is when I bet with my friends that anyone that can hold breath in side swimming pool water for  3 minutes where all of us drop $20 each and we are 5 in number, which make everything $100 which we
promise to  give the final winner, but nobody was able to hold the breath for 3 minute in side water till we reduce it to 90 seconds before we latter get the winner but I was not the winner.and my second strange bet is when me and  elder brother bet that who to win ludo game three time continuously, where we bet $60 each but surprisingly I won my elder brother.

[Casdinyard]

I consider this as one of the strangest bets I have ever made even though there's no money involved really.

So back in 2015, I was very big on League of Legends, and so are my friends. Just so we can party up as a team and play together with good comms (Voice communications wasn't available in LoL at the time), We'd rent a couple PCs in Gaming Cafes and play to our hearts content. So here's where my strange bet came in. I had a female friend who's included in that LoL group who's pretty good at the game and a gay friend that's just starting to learn the ropes. After going out for some food, we decided to play league at the usual place. For some unknown reason the gay friend and I decided we'd bet on if the female friend will play with us on the gaming cafe or if she's going to stay home and play on her laptop. We went back and forth at it, I made a bet that she'd play with us, the gay friend bet on the other option. Oh by the way, loser has to voluntarily die 5 times against their lane opponent effectively throwing the game on their lane.

By some stroke of "I'm going to mess with this particular guy" the female friend said she's going to stay at home, and so I thought I lost. I even went so far as to keep my word and willingly submit to my opponent in 5 deaths.

She played with us on the gaming cafe , so basically I literally just shot myself on the foot. Didn't even struck me that she played with us until after the game was over.

So yeah, that's how my strangest bet went.

[Marykeller]

The strange bet that supposes to be fun, gets to my turn it became an unforgettable experience that I can't forget in a hurry. I was supposed to drink all of Don Simeon's wine and win $20. Yet the requirement was that I remain standing without sitting for roughly an hour.

I accepted the bet to consume all of the Don Simeon wine. Within 10 minutes of completing the wine, I had defecated all over myself and dozed off for days without remembering to eat or take a bath.

Every time I think back on what transpired that day, I remind myself not to participate in or attempt a crazy bet with anyone, regardless of how amusing it may seem.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

During our high school and college years, we all love to make bets with our friends, and it can be done almost several times a day. It's hard to remember what I did the craziest thing for money, but I think I climbed up the third floor of the women's dormitory down the drainpipe. We were a little drunk at the time, but I won a case of beer. I'll remember that bet for the rest of my life.    

You guys had opportunity to drink alcohol while in school?,
That's crazy I guess, I attended a boarding college where we were free to eat and drink what ever we liked, but were never allowed to take alcoholic beverages or contents.
And there was a boundary between males dormitory and females dormitory, and on no account should any of this sex's be found on opposite sex's dormitory.

As males, we enjoyed alot of games and betting and stuffs, but was never really as fun as it should be without the female counterpart, you guys were pretty on the loose  .

[alegotardo]

What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

Here in Brazil there is a very popular television program called "Big Brother Brasil", it is a reality show that shows several people confined in a house, and every week one of them is eliminated.
I honestly don't even watch the show, but I know a lot of people who bet on certain people leaving or staying every week.

I've never made a very bizarre bet, I think the most "out of the ordinary" bet was for an Oscar winner (I lost) or for the next president of the United States (I also lost ).

[wxa7115]

Gambling or betting is moving beyond just casinos and sports to other sectors of the economy. There is a thread here on betting for the 2024 United States election, and another one for the Oscars. I have seen people bet on movie characters and all sorts of things. This is not to say that they are addicted to gambling. I think we do it for fun, as a form of socializing. While thinking about it today, I wondered what the strangest bet I had ever had was. I remembered having a bet with my brother that he would give me $80 if I could eat 5 packs of 200g of instant noodles in less than 5 minutes, and if I couldn't, I would give him $90. What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

At least when it comes to the bets I have personally made my strangest bet has to be when I made a bet Trump will win the 2016 election, do not misunderstand me, I am not really into politics as politicians will say anything to get your vote and do whatever they want at the end.

However when I saw the odds given to Trump during that election I could not help but to think the odds were wrong and he had higher chances to win than that, so I took my chances and made a bet that he would win, however that was not the only reason I made that bet, as we know Trump can be a polarizing figure so many people around me were mad at him and I made the bet just to piss those people off, and once he won I suppose you can imagine how mad they were not only that Trump won, but that someone they knew actually made money because of it.

[Reatim]

this is funny because i have to bet in the past in Rat game in which a rat will be released and in what box number he will enter? then that is the winning one.

never that I bet in this again because for me this is an abused to the said animal because there are lots of gambling way and not to use them for fun.
though i am not condemning Horse racing because for me ? it is their purpose in life to race and to give people entertainment .

[Kakmakr]

this is funny because i have to bet in the past in Rat game in which a rat will be released and in what box number he will enter? then that is the winning one.

never that I bet in this again because for me this is an abused to the said animal because there are lots of gambling way and not to use them for fun.
though i am not condemning Horse racing because for me ? it is their purpose in life to race and to give people entertainment .

Now that you mention this, there was a Crypto currency gambling site like this, where the "rat race" was shown live through a streaming video and then people bet on those mice.

I have to admit, I thought it was a good idea at the time... until I saw that the same mice were used 24/7 and that food were used to get them to participate in the races.

I stopped betting on the rats and I see the site is gone.... so I do not know if animal activists complained about this.

[lienfaye]

Here in our country, this still happens to this date. If you've heard or been aware of the spider fight? That's what of the strangest bet I guess that someone from other countries will hear from us.

Strange for other countries but for us it's already common. Because of that I remember my childhood days with my friends. One night, we escaped from home to find and capture a spiders because we want to have our own spider to fight for each other.

It's so fun and satisfying to bet in your own spider then will win. That's certainly an unforgettable experience of my childhood. Anyway aside from this, the strangest bet I had is when I bet to my neighbors who's going to arrive first at our school during our primary days, but instead of money we bet a food.

[Fesatmas]

What is the strangest bet you have ever had?

I had a strange gambling experience to be precise when I was young with my coworkers, in short I was on vacation at a waterfall, if I'm not mistaken in 2018 in May the second Sunday. As usual we take a shower to refresh our bodies and some time later my friend offers a betting challenge, whoever dives the longest or holds his breath in the water is the first to surface the water, he who loses with a bet of $ 350 with 3 rounds, I'm interested in trying it , for the first round I won, the second time I lost and so on I lost and of course my friend got $ 350 from my wallet. At that time, I often did strange gambling with my friends, such as guessing height, guessing sleep duration and others.

[tusandii]

I have a sports betting experience that is a little strange in my opinion because this is done by physical bookies who bet directly using fiat money every time there is a football match.
Where every gambler will deposit the money they are betting with a 100% winning multiple of the amount at stake, for example when I bet using $ 100, if the team I am betting on wins I can take a total win of $ 200.
And if there is a match in which one team has a greater advantage and has a greater chance of winning, the dealer will immediately reduce points to that team so that it seems fairer in each match.
I don't know how the bookie got his profit but in fact he is still the bookmaker of the sport and lots of gamblers around are betting with him.

[ethereumhunter]

When we remember the odd bet we made, it might bring nostalgia to us and maybe there is a desire to repeat what we did in the past with friends. But things have changed and even though we can repeat that nostalgia by playing the same game, the feeling is different and changed. And that odd bet will remain in our memory, becoming a memory of the good times with our friends.

So those of us who have already made that odd bet should feel lucky because not everyone has that nostalgia. And we are part of that nostalgia that we can cherish forever.

[QueenVera]

I've some strange bets, I mean very strange ones maybe to me because their was a time we had to bet on who sleeps last and we were able to bet $50 each and who ever sleeps last goes home with the entire bet and then we really didn't tag it gambling because we only did it out of shared ignorance but as time goes on, I was ale to figure it out to be gambling and I did felt the Impact of that $50 because as a kid I knew how much and how long it took me to raise such amount of money and I even lost it while hoping to make it thrice😁.
And the other strange bet was when we had to bet a friend to go sleep with a guy and she ended up doing it without stress and got the whole money