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    8 hours ago

    Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.

    Uno is not gambling because all decks are the same. There is no artificial scarcity to monetize, it’s literally just a game and that’s good.

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        5 hours ago

        Uno can be gambling too if you start to bet on round. Anything can be gambling if you want it to but poker with non convertible tokens isn’t gambling. Betting on players also would be gambling. Anything can become gambling. If you think that’s an overstatement look at predictive markets to see how broad bettable events can be, it’s amazing scary.

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            4 hours ago

            What I tried to express is that when decks are

            • NOT the same
            • AND are sealed
            • AND there is a distribution of the content (namely some rare and non rare items)

            then the purchase of that deck itself is gambling.

            That does not imply anything about other situations, namely decks that are all the same can still be used for gambling when there are played with rules that do introduce randomness. A single coin for example can be used to bet.