Games of Chance

Content

• Gambling problems
• Examples of gambling

Within the dimension of what playful, It can be said that all games are characterized by rewarding in a significant proportion to the ability, but they also usually leave a fee paid to the random, for what a priori whoever plays better is not assured of victory.

In other words, games are made up of a range of elements and generally combine in various proportions own merits and the fruit of chance. It could be said that at the opposite extreme to those that give a majority weight to merit (such as chess, for example) are the games of chance.

In games of chance, the player's own skill has almost no effect, and in fact it is impossible for someone to “play too well” or “too badly” a game of chance. In any case, several games considered games of chance contain a quota of criteria or thinking ability, such as those that involve playing cards.

Many peoples have developed basic and primitive games of chance: the position of an object after its fall (a coin, let's say) are an example of this; in that case the prediction became a game.

The conviction that all players are unaware of the outcome and cannot anticipate it (at least rationally) puts all participants on an equal footing. From this luck of 'democracy in uncertainty'It is believed that the concept of betting on the outcome of a game, regardless of individual abilities, originated.

Gambling problems

Even though from the moral or the ethical point of view, gambling for money is often condemned (to extol the value of the reward not based on effort), it is difficult to mention something that transcended with such force in almost all societies as games of chance, and today can be found in almost all the great cities of the world local specially dedicated to games of chance, known as casinos.

In fact, those arguments against the casinos seem to have been at least somewhat correct. Over time, games of chance became a pleasure or entertainment of the wealthiest, but also in a mechanism of escape for the poorest: the illusion of equality and of being able to win a significant sum of money for a stroke of luck in the casino has been the cause of suffering for many families.

Many people transform those games into a suffering, acquiring a disease known as gambling In parallel to this, many others investigated gambling issues from different perspectives.

The mathematical distribution of probabilities, for example, it is an area in which intensive work was done trying to explain why many people win, at the same time as casinos always get rich.

Examples of gambling

Follow with:

• Examples of Educational Games
• Examples of Pre-sport Games
• Examples of Traditional Games
  
• Examples of Recreational Games