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Why Gambling Is Bad

AHAHypnoman•Created April 5, 2022
Why Gambling Is Bad
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DISCLAIMER: THIS GAME DOES NOT USE REAL MONEY. YOU DO NOT GAIN OR LOSE MONEY IN REAL LIFE WHILE PLAYING THIS GAME. Apologies if the colour scheme hurts your eyes. Instructions at the bottom. It doesn't have name that I know of. Heads and tails is just my name for it. I didn't come up with this game, however I don't know who did as I only know of this through a short conversation I had in real life. This game shows you how gambling can deceive you. Every time you flip the coin, if it lands on heads you gain 50% of your current money. If it lands on tails you lose 40% of your current money. In theory your money should grow incredibly fast, but no. You may occasionally get lucky and have up to ~£20 (My personal best is £424.12 but that's a one off - I've had to play this hundreds of times while developing it, you'd expect at least one or two of my results to be crazily high) before you lose it all, but even that is quite rare. Here's why you would most likely lose your money: Say you flip the coin two times, there are three possible outcomes which are: Win - Win: £2.25 Win - Lose: £0.90 Lose - Win: £0.90 Lose - Lose: £0.36 This means that for every two times you play you have a 3:4 chance to lose money, and this will quickly add up, especially with high numbers. This is a simple game, and it's quite obvious that you'll lose money, so you'll probably never see this in casinos and such. They have much more elaborate ways of sucking your money from you. Instructions: Press flip to flip the coin and either gain 50% of your current money or lose 40% of your current money depending on if it lands on a heads or tails. Press take to bail with what little money you have left. Statistics: 321 blocks, made in about 3 hours. Huh do I really have a 100BPH productivity speed? No, no, nothing like that, certainly. Notes: I feel putting in a leaderboard may not have been the greatest of ideas as it could result in an incentive, but nevermind. I'm not unsharing and resharing to exploit any kind of bug, it's because hardly anyone saw this because I shared it at weird times (such as 10PM in US time)

Project Details

Project ID671623315
CreatedApril 5, 2022
Last ModifiedOctober 25, 2022
SharedApril 7, 2022
Visibilityvisible
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