What is "games of chance"

Usage examples of "games of chance".

The rest went back to the big room, to while away the time in talk, meaningless games of chance, and bullying those who were easily intimidated.

As the rain crashed all around and droplets of water were seeking a way down inside the dome, Phaid faced a situation that was, if not as old as time, at least as old as games of chance.

Beyond are the games of chance, where the visitor invariably loses more than he gains.

Since in primitive times voyages were scarcely undertaken except for commerical purposes, Hermes was consequently the god of commerce, the god of profit - lawful and unlawful - and the god of games of chance.

Eerily, the thought came to him: the booths and banners and tents and platforms, the magic shows and girl platforms and freaks and games of chance were being erected here in the middle of the night, in this barren area lost in the emptiness between settlements.

The lounges and seating areas swirled with color and noise as people from many worlds conversed, ate, argued, laughed, and played games of chance to pass the time.

Some sat or reclined, eating, talking, or playing games of chance.

At the edge of the camp some of the others had set up games of chance and were busily fleecing all the interested non-Gypsies in the vicinity with dried peas hidden under fast-moving thimbles.

Here are all the greatest moments of humanity, past, present, future, played out over and over again, from men at war to men at play, games of chance to games of love.

They should have been able to keep some customers at the various games of chance even with the dragon rider display.