Other Things You Can Bet on Aside Sports and Casino Games

[Davidvictorson]

We love our gambling for several reasons. Some of us do it for fun and entertainment, some do it for the money, and some do it for both the money and entertainment. Outside of sports betting and online casino games, did you know that there are other things you can bet on?

Let me interrupt your reading at this point to tell you that I will be providing a list of some other things to bet on, which I have found on the internet. I will add the sources. Please note that I am not in any way affiliated with them, neither am I promoting any website. I do not own any of them. Now we have gotten that out of the way. Let's get back to the article.

Here are some other things you can bet on, aside from sports and casino games:

1 - Alien life and UFOs : Some of the bets you can place on this could be: Which country will be attacked first or which celebrity will be abducted by an alien.

2 - Famous Award shows like the Oscars: You can bet on the different categories of awards like Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture, etc.
3 - Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake: There is a cheese-rolling competition that takes place at Spring Bank Holiday near England’s Gloucester. You bet on the person who would be able to catch the cheese that is rolled down a hill.

4 - Presidential Elections:  There is already a thread here for betting on who is most likely to become America's next president. I guess other countries would have a version of this too.

5 - Celebrity deaths: There are websites that offer celebrity death pools. So you have to place your bet on a celebrity you think may die, when they will die, and how. Do you think people may have placed a bet on Jamie Foxx?

6 - World Wife-Carrying Championship: Yes, this is an annual championship that takes place in Sonkajärvi, Finland. You bet on the husband that can carry his wife across the length of two-to-three football fields as fast as possible.

7 - The Royal Family: This is another legit bet you can place on the royal family, especially if you are inclined to keeping up with them and the latest. Basically, everything about them is up for gambling.

8 - Competitive eating competition: For example, during the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, you can place your bet on who would eat the most number of hot dogs and also if someone would or not throw up.

9 - Bog snorkeling: This is a competition that holds in the United Kingdom and requires individuals to snorkel through a large stretch of muddy peat bog in the shortest time possible. There are many possible outcomes that gamblers can bet on. They include - Who the winner or loser would be, and in addition, the time it would take to win.

10 - Economic and Financial Events: There are online betting sites where one can make predictions on the economic futures and financial events in a country or business in a particular period. You could bet on the stock market and cryptocurrency market crashing, the percentage of unemployment rates, etc.

11 - The Pope: You can make your bets on who the next Pope would be and the Papal Name. There are online betting websites where you can do this.

12 - Social Media Events: You can make bets on social media events. From what I have seen, some bets may include: "Will Facebook become a Government Utility?" and "TikTok Spy Indictment Props" by the end of the year.

13 - The End of the World: As crazy as it may sound, there is an online betting site for this. People predict when the world would end. Don't know if they will be around for the prize money if they eventually win.

14 - Kim Jong-Un: Just like the Pope, the type of bets people place on him are: When he will stop being in a position of power, how he will stop being in power, etc.

What others do you know of?

I want to believe that the list is inexhaustive, but I will stop here for now. I have also provided the references below if you are interested to read them exhaustively.

-https://www.mintdice.com/blog/strange-things-you-can-bet-on
- https://www.thesportsgeek.com/blog/bizarre-things-to-gamble-on/
- https://betzillion.com/blog/weird-things-to-bet-on/

[Cantsay]

Alot of them here on this list I had no idea that they could be utilitized for gambling. I have heard of some crazy ones like the sex sport, betting on who's going to win the presidential election etc but for some they really are crazy, take "celebrity death for example" how the heck are they supposed to know the celebrity that's going to die next? It doesn't sound rational to me though others might be of a different opinion but I just stated mine while some of them are just place there and it's almost certain that no one is going to win the prize take UFO as an example.
If you continue in this rabbithole you'll discover so many strange things that bets are being made on, this ones are just like the tip of the iceberg.

[Jawhead999]

When I read this thread, my mind automatically recall this site https://futuur.com/ because it's their niche, but I'm not affiliated with this site and not really sure about their credibility.

I'm just interested to talk about celebrity death and Kim Jong Un, it's legal for the site to include this kind bet? I think they would get sued by the celebrity or government because it's something like death threat.

[Oshosondy]

There is nothing better than casinos and sport bets. If there is no these two, gambling sites may not be able to make money the way they supposed to.

The one that I really know about are presidential election and awards. They are not something that happen everyday or frequently. As I see others that you have mentioned too, they are not what gambling site can provide everyday too.

[michellee]

When I read this thread, my mind automatically recall this site https://futuur.com/ because it's their niche, but I'm not affiliated with this site and not really sure about their credibility.

I'm just interested to talk about celebrity death and Kim Jong Un, it's legal for the site to include this kind bet? I think they would get sued by the celebrity or government because it's something like death threat.

What you say is true. Futuur is the only place I know for betting on general stuff, as @OP wrote about. But I rarely check them nowadays, although I still have some in there.

Now I never bet on general matters like that because I rarely read political, general, economic, or celebrity news. So even if I bet, there is a possibility that I will lose even though before that, I could have just searched for information about the contest.

Well, people have their way of betting and sure, there are still lots of people who bet for common things and need that kind of knowledge. And some still play gambling in sports betting or casino games. So it's not a problem for gamblers.

[Sim_card]

I am a gambler that loves having fun with gambling and I love to be the one playing the game so that when I loss,I wouldn't put the blame on anyone and this is the reason why I love sportbet and casino games that I understand the game and have the knowledge of so what I am staking on.

5 - Celebrity deaths: There are websites that offer celebrity death pools. So you have to place your bet on a celebrity you think may die, when they will die, and how. Do you think people may have placed a bet on Jamie Foxx?

I don't like this kind of bet because it is bad for one to wish somebody death and will not be good for you to look up for the death of other people because the death of someone will bring pain on his/her family members. What I mean is that if you are happy that you predicted right and won big,some other people are sober and mourning. If it is down here in my country the family of their deceased celeb can say that you were the one that killed the person with black power to make money.

8 - Competitive eating competition: For example, during the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, you can place your bet on who would eat the most number of hot dogs and also if someone would or not throw up.

I have seen this a lot of times and I have placed a bet on it too, but I loss because I didn't have the idea of who will win but I just did it for fun.

[swogerino]

Well it is great to have different options and even really strange bets like which celebrities will aliens abduct first but most likely no one of us real gamblers will care for such bet,this is a bet some people can only make for fun and not hoping to make a big win out of it.

Most people nowadays gamble with a clear motivation which is to hit it big and few are the ones who use gambling as a source of entertainment only,times have changed and people nowadays more than ever want that big win which in many not so well developed countries can be a life changing event.

[Rruchi man]

The many options of things asides sports to gamble on provides no room for excuses why an individual should not gamble if they want to claim that they do not gamble because they do not like sports or other casino games.

A big difference between this form of gambling and gambling on casino games and sports is that these form of gambling is less addictive than gambling on sports and casino games. If you are not already an addict from gambling on sports and casino games, and you decide to start gambling on these, there is a smaller chance of you becoming an addict.

[danherbias07]

I've seen the Oscar Awards, Movie Awards, and the Presidential Elections, I actually made a few bets on those events, but a lot on your lists is something new to me.

Alien Attack. Who will be attacked first? I guess I will worry more about the attack than remembering the bet I made.
Some of them are shocking, I didn't really know they exist in gambling.
I mean, there are still a lot of sports that are not being added to gambling sites and yet here we are talking about future events and worst, it might not happen at all.
The sport World Tag Championship for example. I have been watching that sport but due to lack of viewers, I think that's the reason why they are not added to betting sites just yet. It's actually an entertaining game.

[Outhue]

Alot of them here on this list I had no idea that they could be utilitized for gambling. I have heard of some crazy ones like the sex sport, betting on who's going to win the presidential election etc but for some they really are crazy, take "celebrity death for example" how the heck are they supposed to know the celebrity that's going to die next? It doesn't sound rational to me though others might be of a different opinion but I just stated mine while some of them are just place there and it's almost certain that no one is going to win the prize take UFO as an example.
If you continue in this rabbithole you'll discover so many strange things that bets are being made on, this ones are just like the tip of the iceberg.

Imagine betting on when a celebrity will die and the bettor failing to wake up the next day, Betting on someone's life is very dangerous for the bettors because death is a spirit too, it could just decide to take your life for having that gut to bet on someone else life, how dare you? Lol

It's crazy and annoying what people are turning into all in the name of fun, it's still very hard to make the right predictions on online casinos and some people are behaving inhumanely towards their fellow beings.

Anyone doing this is looking for the wrath of GOD, you are passing your boundary as a human being, I won't dare bets on someone's life when I don't even know when my time will be up.

[Oasisman]

Here are some other things you can bet on, aside from sports and casino games:
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TBH, these are all weird stuff in the internet, it's like a darker version of gambling edition. Yeah, I know these kind of gamble exist, but I didn't know there are still a lot or enough people who loves betting in these weird kind of betting. Enough to at least keep in running up until now. Celebrity deaths are like a deadpool kind of thing. Remember that scene from the bar where they place bets on the people who most probably going to die next.
The first one though, is which likely you're not gonna win with those things LOL.
Well, the only weird thing we place our bet on so far is counting how many white SUV's, Sedan, or Trucks that passes by in a certain period of time. Who ever gets the closest from the actual number wins.

[Pierre 2]

Turning financial events into games that we can gamble on actually sounds like good idea. Its like knowledge/skill based but luck involved gambling opportunity. If we bet on when certain stocks will crash its not impossible to guess. One can look for certain stocks with high debts for sure. But some of these options are very weird like "celebrity deaths"? that sounds bit too sensitive to me. I personally disliked it a lot.

[ethereumhunter]

Maybe it's normal to bet on presidential elections, economics and finance, Oscar contests or others. But to bet on eating contests, death, or even things beyond human thought, looks strange because we don't know what will happen and can only guess. But maybe some people still participate in the contest, especially if the prize is very dancing and big money, they will try to guess as best they can. Maybe the people who bet on such contests are just for entertainment and there is no goal to make money because they know that sometimes things are impossible for a human being to guess.

[acroman08]

What others do you know of?

betting on periodical test scores.

this reminds me of a nostalgic memory. when I was still in high school, my friends and I used to bet money among ourselves on whoever got the highest score on our periodical test will win the total bet amount. I never won but it was one of the best betting memories I have. sadly this only happened 3 times during the school year(we have 4 periodical tests each school year), because the next school year almost half of my friends went to different schools because their families moved and the rest are in different classes but we still stayed friends(just a note that school system different from other countries).

[_act_]

5 - Celebrity deaths: There are websites that offer celebrity death pools. So you have to place your bet on a celebrity you think may die, when they will die, and how. Do you think people may have placed a bet on Jamie Foxx?

To be betting on celebrities death is something else. I have not seen such gambling site before and I do not which to see one. I have not gambled on anything listed there before than presidential election.

13 - The End of the World: As crazy as it may sound, there is an online betting site for this. People predict when the world would end. Don't know if they will be around for the prize money if they eventually win.

Is this for real? This is just out of sense for me. How can people be betting on when this world will end which can not be during their lifetime.

[boyptc]

I remember that there's this bookie before that you can bet with all of these odd things that they list on their books. AFAIK, they're no longer in operation long time ago but that's really a fun way to gamble aside from doing sports.

Well, if you're a gambler, you can bet on anything you can think of. I have even read like a kids game that it's like a gamble on what's going to be the next commercial on TV. Those odd stuff truly are possible to bet with.

There's also this movie of Eddie Murphy IIRC where he has made a bet with a gambling pro to choose any number that he wants and he'll just guess it on that football game.

[Nheer]

There are a lot of things on this list that I never thought it was conceivable to gamble on, thus there are a lot of things on which one can place a wager. Some of these items are prohibited from being gambled on. For instance, I think they have gone too far when they offer bets on how and when someone will die. Some of these activities ought to be prohibited or stopped since they don't feel right.

1 - Alien life and UFOs : Some of the bets you can place on this could be: Which country will be attacked first or which celebrity will be abducted by an alien.

I find it hard to comprehend that some casinos actually provide such betting alternatives. This option shouldn't be available, in my opinion, as it seems as though they are hoping for an alien invasion. Although some people find this form of betting entertaining, I find it to be not entertaining. Even though I don't think aliens exist and have no idea whether they really do, I still can't accept this kind of wagering.

5 - Celebrity deaths: There are websites that offer celebrity death pools. So you have to place your bet on a celebrity you think may die, when they will die, and how. Do you think people may have placed a bet on Jamie Foxx?

This is ridiculous; it's my first time seeing it all, and I believe I just seen one of the worst aspects of gambling today. forecasting someone's death and also forecasting what kills them is pointless, thus all of this shouldn't be permitted in the name of gambling. What if someone makes the prediction that a particular celebrity would be shot to death and then arranges for someone to do so in order to win the wager? would it count as well?

I think some of these betting options ought to be eliminated since this is just so uncool.

[ChiBitCTy]

Lol it's kind of crazy how much stuff you can actually bet on.  I haven't really ventured outside of sports betting and casino games much myself.  Betting NFL football has always been my "bread and butter" and playing casino games like roulette and poker have always been my bread and butter for non sports betting, but really I think the only "crazy" bet I've ever made was on the US presidential election several years ago.  I was so confident I was going to win too...didn't pan out that way lol.

[Queentoshi]

5 - Celebrity deaths: There are websites that offer celebrity death pools. So you have to place your bet on a celebrity you think may die, when they will die, and how. Do you think people may have placed a bet on Jamie Foxx?

There are many options to bet on not this. This is a terrible thing, to bet on someone's death, and if I see anyone who is very interested in this kind of betting, I will really think of them as terrible people too to wish someone else dead even if they already seem close to it due to their health condition or age. If you are betting on someone's death, you are wishing them death, and pain to the family and people that they will leave behind.

Is this for real? This is just out of sense for me. How can people be betting on when this world will end which can not be during their lifetime.

It is not even that it cannot be during their lifetime. The question is what use will the money they will win be if the world actually ends?

[piebeyb]

Actually it looks interesting, but for me who doesn't know the types of bets, of course, it's the same as me giving money for free to gambling platforms, for example, guessing who is the American president while I'm not American, so it's impossible for me to bet that I don't really know the political situation there, so this can also be a reference for gamblers who need other experience.

I personally don't really like to bet on luck alone, I need research that I have to do before betting on certain sports, of course why I prefer betting on football over other sports,

In my knowledge, it is limited to the sport of football, for this reason my advice is that you should never place a bet that you don't have good knowledge of, that is the same as giving money to a gambling platform. betting with what you understand and master will be better. but this can be a reference for other gambler friends who need new experience and knowledge in gambling.