Have you & friends thought of engaging on any unfamiliar activity for gambling

[Cantsay]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?
This thought came to me after remembering some of the pasts that the cards, cheers, dice and the rest of the skill-based games has ruined people in the street on the cost of gambling.
The authorities took it upon themselves going after the gamblers to put the situation of the ruined lives to an end.

Gambling is very much legal in my country, although there was a recent suggestion that government should ban sport betting activities in my country due to its link to suicides but nothing substantial has been discussed ever since.

So I and some friends creatively brought about drawing a circle ⭕ and agrees that whoever throws stone and gets into the circle without touching its line is the winner of the game.
So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

Altough, gambling is legal in my country but still me and my friends (back when we were much younger) we also devised a few games that we normally gambled on - sometimes we use other things aside money, for example we gamble on who’s going to have more sessions when we are to play mobile games, stake our drinks and the rest. Back then as a kid not all of us had access to money so they ones without money would stake something that others want but it wasn’t illegal.

[Coin_trader]

OP mentioned that they used a circle for their drawing, while we used a square, and we used marbles as our projectiles for the coins. We would determine who goes first based on proximity to a drawn line, and from that line, we would take turns throwing coins into the square. If you successfully flipped a coin from heads to tails or vice versa, or if you managed to get any coins to go outside the square, those coins would be yours.

I can’t stop ignoring this post because this is the popular games in my country called Tanching(Not sure with the spelling but that’s sound like that). As I child, this is the first game which I play that I didn’t know it’s gambling but I’m very happy to play this because there’s money at stake which means everyone is putting their heart on the game just to win.

I’m not good targeting coins outside the box which is why my gameplay strategy here is to keep sniping other players by positioning my coin to possible place of my opponent coin landed assuming he will miss his shot. I just keep eliminating other players to get the pot without the need to shoot out all the coins in the square.

This game is a gold and I’m surprised that this being play in different locations because I thought this was invented by adults during our childhood time. Are you from Philippines too right?

[AicecreaME]

Sounds cool and unique indeed but illegal it illegal.

It's just a matter of time and someone will find out that you're doing gambling in that kind of way. Also, I'm just curios how you guys bet every round, I bet it's hard to remember who wins every round unless you're going to tally it up and that will make it very suspicious since if you guys just want it to look like a child's game, you won't bother recording in any kind of ways who wins every round.

[Hispo]

Sounds cool and unique indeed but illegal it illegal.

It's just a matter of time and someone will find out that you're doing gambling in that kind of way. Also, I'm just curios how you guys bet every round, I bet it's hard to remember who wins every round unless you're going to tally it up and that will make it very suspicious since if you guys just want it to look like a child's game, you won't bother recording in any kind of ways who wins every round.

Depending on where it is done and whether there are people around when they do it, they could actually go away with doing this on the streets and not being prosecuted (assuming this stuff is even illegal in the jurisdiction of OP). But, to be honest with you, to me this thing about drawing a circle in the ground and throwing a stone on it does not sound like gambling at all, it is a skill based game.
Gambling is supposed to be all about luck and those who play are supposed to have little or no influence over the outcome of the game, in this case, a skillful enough person could have better chances to win if practices long enough, so this is not gambling. If they gathered in the middle of the street and tossed a coin, it would be more appropriate than throwing stones into a circle.

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Currently, I don't have any friends who like gambling and still live near me, so I have not considered to gather with them in order to wager money for fun. It is better just to stay home and do so in the comfort and safety of one's own home...

[Rruchi man]

So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

Have you considered the possibility of one of your friends ratting the group out to the authority. It can happen, and you cannot always trust completely. Say he gets aggrieved from loosing so much and just wants to teach you guys a lesson, maybe because you laughed at him.

To trust is difficult, trusting one person is alright, but trusting more than one person does not seem wise. If gambling activities are very illegal in your country and there is a form of severe punishment for defaulters, I advice you keep any form of gambling activity you engage in private and secret.

[Findingnemo]

Gambling is illegal in China but almost everyone in their home plays a game like Domino and the government can't do anything about that, the legality applies to only for running a business with gambling like a Casino even in a smaller scale but betting in a friendly manner should be allowed and it's legally not wrong too. If you still feel threatened then just use the same technique whar Meemaw used in the Sheldon series.

[Negotiation]

I and my friends would never think of engaging in any unknown activity for gambling because gambling is totally illegal in our country with severe penalties if found out by the law enforcement agencies. Gambling in public will have bad consequences for us. There is no such activity for online gambling. All information is secret law enforcement agencies will not know. That's why me and my friends can bet on games from home without any hassle here no one will suspect and be safe from everything.

[Quidat]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?
This thought came to me after remembering some of the pasts that the cards, cheers, dice and the rest of the skill-based games has ruined people in the street on the cost of gambling.
The authorities took it upon themselves going after the gamblers to put the situation of the ruined lives to an end.

So I and some friends creatively brought about drawing a circle ⭕ and agrees that whoever throws stone and gets into the circle without touching its line is the winner of the game.
So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

If it turns out that gambling is illegal or prohibited into your  country then for sure you would really be finding up some ways on making up some betting or doing gambling in together with your friends on which i could say that its not really that a bad idea on trying out to create something as long it do involves staking or betting then it would really be on your own way or method on how you would really be gonna doing it.If you do find out that there's no such thing about prohibition then there's no point on doing such thing or even if you do tend or have plans on doing solo then you could eventually
do it because we do know that playing online on casinos nowadays is really that too easy. You wont really be needing on going into those tons of technical approach on things before you could play.

When it comes to gambling activity on whatever the things correlated to it then it would really be just that depending on how you would really be that dealing up with it.
Unfamiliar way or not then it wont matter as long you could really be able to apply gambling into it. Yes, its really that unusual but at least we've been
able to do on what we do have in mind on which this is something that we do really need to deal up with.

[Woodie]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?

I would probably have found crypto to gamble with 👌

Re: Have you & friends thought of engaging on any unfamiliar activity for gambling

The closest thing I could think of... is playing card games among friends and because our team wanted to win so badly we could find ways to make ourselves win by drawing the needed card for a teammate to guarantee  the win, but away from a friendly table game... definitely don't do this as the consequences could be bad to the extent of losing deposits and the alike.

[goinmerry]

If you live in a place where gambling is completely illegal, you might not likely end up being curious about it since it's not the activity that you've been used to while you grow up. Therefore, no such thing as gambling-related activity you and your friends should think about.

However, if gambling is legal in your place of course there are illegal gambling types that are prohibited, but if one of those illegal gambling games is the one you want, you have no choice but to follow the law and look for an alternative.

I didn't end up yet creating a gambling game with my friends just to look for an alternative. Most of the gambling types I engaged in are legal in my place.

[rachael9385]

Sounds cool and unique indeed but illegal it illegal.

It's just a matter of time and someone will find out that you're doing gambling in that kind of way. Also, I'm just curios how you guys bet every round, I bet it's hard to remember who wins every round unless you're going to tally it up and that will make it very suspicious since if you guys just want it to look like a child's game, you won't bother recording in any kind of ways who wins every round.

Yes I support this, illegal is illegal and you can't change it because it's illegal, such things can also be called cheating and it should be stopped as soon as possible. Someone will find out the truth behind the game and the owner will be freezed for it because he is cheating the bettors.
Local games can be trickish sometimes mostly when the owners are scammers. There's this things I suspect about local games, the owners of the local games might pay people to play and win with a different layout. They have a tricky ways to win every round and as they are winning every rounds it will attract more gamblers attentions. Jokes aside, it is very hard to win every round on a bet. But there is nothing luck can not do but such luck is very rare to find.

[electronicash]

looks like a game when we were just kids and the loser pays random pokemon cards from his stash.  if we were just paying cash at that time, it's gonna be considered gambling.

as long as you are not seen in public paying money/ exchanging cash in public while you keep playing to shoot stones in that circle, you are good to keep playing.  however why not just play cards inside the backyard where any authorities wouldn't be able to see you? this is if you are willing to keep playing after all you are all friends just playing around.

[teamsherry]

Gambling is not illegal in my country but you don't want the police to notice that your actually gambling on the street, I've also played a few games with my friends and we do add a stake to make it fun and more competitive, it's mostly football or tennis skill based games.

We do it mostly to bring out the best in us, although we are well aware that loser goes with nothing and winner takes all, so it's a way we get to compete with ourselves and get a little fun.

[len01]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?
This thought came to me after remembering some of the pasts that the cards, cheers, dice and the rest of the skill-based games has ruined people in the street on the cost of gambling.
The authorities took it upon themselves going after the gamblers to put the situation of the ruined lives to an end.

So I and some friends creatively brought about drawing a circle ⭕ and agrees that whoever throws stone and gets into the circle without touching its line is the winner of the game.
So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

this has actually been discussed before in another thread but it seems to have been locked at this time.
unique bet, do you think betting on how many times the frog makes a sound is a unique bet?
in the past when I was young and not married, I often bet with my friends and bet on something unusual like betting on the number of a car or motorbike that would pass by and if one of us succeeded in guessing the back number of the vehicle, the person will win the amount of money bet.
and actually I have told this story in the past in the same discussion, even betting on the number of vehicles that will pass on a certain road and we bet in a public place but many people don't realize it and the funny thing is that when we lose we still laugh together because unique bets like this are very exciting.

I'm sure all the gamblers here who have been gambling for a long time will have at least once experienced gambling on a unique game like I did and betting like this is what is called betting for fun.

[Die_empty]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?
This thought came to me after remembering some of the pasts that the cards, cheers, dice and the rest of the skill-based games has ruined people in the street on the cost of gambling.
The authorities took it upon themselves going after the gamblers to put the situation of the ruined lives to an end.

So I and some friends creatively brought about drawing a circle ⭕ and agrees that whoever throws stone and gets into the circle without touching its line is the winner of the game.
So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

We had such a situation in my country when the government began to clamp down on illegal gambling that mostly happen on the street. Some gangs and cult groups usually engage in fighting and sometimes shooting during these gambling activities. The government banned such street gambling and participants of such were arrested and persecuted.

In such a situation, the best option will be to engage in registered and conventional gambling instead of risky street gambling. Some people who are used to street gambling will look for alternative means to still engage in street gambling. I know some gamblers who had to hide the money that was staked in different locations so that people or the police would assume that they were just engaging in maybe card or dice game just for fun.

[Belarge]

looks like a game when we were just kids and the loser pays random pokemon cards from his stash.  if we were just paying cash at that time, it's gonna be considered gambling.

as long as you are not seen in public paying money/ exchanging cash in public while you keep playing to shoot stones in that circle, you are good to keep playing.  however why not just play cards inside the backyard where any authorities wouldn't be able to see you? this is if you are willing to keep playing after all you are all friends just playing around.

We keep our activities discreet specifically the ones that have to do with gambling, we don't relent but focused on the bigger winnings. Still yet, none of us will take home early grounds, rather we match our full techniques to balance our tasks in the system. Why get intoxicated with gambling when we can simply based our full-time implementing new style. I'll never try any unfamiliar activities with my friends because when it comes to gambling, there's a whole lot of things at stake, we can lose money and this generally brings issues between close persons.

[Natsuu]

So you and your buddies came up with a sneaky way to gamble without getting caught. Tossing a stone into a circle is your game and only you guys know there's some betting action going on. It's like having your own secret gambling club, keeping things low-key and fun. Just make sure everyone's cool with the setup so it stays a good time for everyone involved

[Potato Chips]

Regardless of legality, I believe this has been happening and as long as it's not large scale, it's likely, there'd be no trouble.

For instance, I used to play local card games with friends and relatives with money at stake. I also remember mom used to meet up with the neighborhood ladies to play bingo at someone's house where they have a prize pool for every session. My step-dad used to bet with his friends everytime there was a sports live viewing meetup.

TBH, we can't deny lots of simple games are elevated when there is a money at stake 

[Lida93]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?
This thought came to me after remembering some of the pasts that the cards, cheers, dice and the rest of the skill-based games has ruined people in the street on the cost of gambling.
The authorities took it upon themselves going after the gamblers to put the situation of the ruined lives to an end.

So I and some friends creatively brought about drawing a circle ⭕ and agrees that whoever throws stone and gets into the circle without touching its line is the winner of the game.
So only us (friends knows what we are doing and that there is a stake in the gaming).

Your post just reminds me of a past event several years ago back then in secondary school (as we call it here) I had these classmates who will always want to use the 25 minutes break-time for lunch to play a gamble and it went on for a period then other students took interest and as a result of the new persons it wasn't longer a secret to conceal anymore and it eventually got to the ears of one of the school teacher's and that was how they all got caught one day in the very act and were immensely disciplined after several pleas against facing expulsion.

So far as there are people in a society that loves gambling there will always be gamblers to go against any ban laws against gambling activity in that society but how they go about it in doing it really very important for their own safety against being caught by the authorities. I am not against you and friends having fun with the style of gambling you guys had initiated but wisdom suggest you guys don't take it to the public in doing so despite you claiming to do it in disguise. I don't come from a country where the law is against gambling but ifit happens to be that way some day, then I will have to be gambling in my closet and not publicly with friends. We can be caught you know!

[Hewlet]

Has gambling been set illegal in your place and due to how much you and friends love to gamble, you would just think of a unique activity that you can play even in the public and people would never suspect it that there is stake placed in the game?

I have had similar experience in my local community where i reside. In those days when sports betting wasn't as popular as what we have now,the popular gambling we knew of was playing of cards where each person brings an amount like $1 and let's say they are four altogether it will now compound to $4 and at the end of the play whoever wins goes with the $4 dollar.  We will play it for different rounds and when some people see that they've won above the amount they came with, they will want to quite half way which will result in fighting and in some cases serious violence. It got to the authority and they had to barn the playing of cards but we didn't allow the ban to stop us oh, we can even go as far as enteing the forest just to play our whote