Absurdly High Stakes Game: Difference between revisions

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Kaiji]]'' - The entire premise of the show revolves around this. Over the course of the show the main character bets his freedom, his life, and various body parts, in order to win money. [[~~media~~:~~kaiji~~-25.jpg|These fingers]] are being bet on a game of {{spoiler|drawing lots from a tissue box!}}

* ''[[Kaiji]]'' - The entire premise of the show revolves around this. Over the course of the show the main character bets his freedom, his life, and various body parts, in order to win money. [[Media:Kaiji-25.jpg|These fingers]] are being bet on a game of {{spoiler|drawing lots from a tissue box!}}

* ''[[Akagi]]'' - In the final story arc for the anime, the hero plays an unusual version of [[Mahjong]] that uses clear tiles and where he bets his own blood instead of money.

* ''[[Spiral]]'' - There are a few Absurdly High Stakes Games throughout the series, but the most obvious example would be when the hero wagers that he can guess which card his opponent is holding. If he wins, he will receive crucial information, but if he loses, he will have a swarm of deadly bees released on him.

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* The game in [[One Outs]] is technically just baseball. However, the main character is a pitcher with a bizarre contract that grants him money for every strike, and penalized him hugely for every run he lets through. This leads to some intricate and convoluted ways of 'winning'.

* [[Badass|Kenshiro]] enters into an arm-wrestling contest in [[Fist of the North Star]] that cuts the loser's arm off with a table saw. Though Kenshiro wins, he [[Take a Third Option|takes a third option]] by not cutting off the [[Mook]]'s arm... just snapping it in half.

* In [[One Piece|''One Piece'']], the Davy Back Fights is game - consisting of various athletic events - where pirates actually wager members of their crews. Foxy (the antagonist of the arc where this is introduced) has won these games 920 times, gaining an enormous crew of just under 500 as a result, but they tend to cheat at them, a ''lot.'' Even more so in the anime version which was an [[Adaptation Expansion]] of the manga arc.