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* The slots-o-death machine in [[Space Quest]]. You can win a relatively paltry sum, but roll three skulls and you are toast. The only way for Roger to earn enough cash for a ticket out of Ulence Flats is by [[Save Scumming]] or (in the remake) a magnet on the bottom of the machine.
* ''Return to Zork'' has a board game called "Survivor" with really simple rules: One player controls the Wizard and the other a common peasant. The peasant can move wherever he wants, the Wizard can only move in L-formations and leaves pits when he vacates a space. The goal of the game is for the other player to be forced to move into a pit (and thus lose). You play this game twice, and the second time is ''the final boss of the game,'' with the fate of all Zork riding on the outcome.
* The very first appearance of Rottytops in ''[[Shantae]]'' has the heroine challenged to what seems to be this type of wager. Rotty challenges Shantae to a race; if Shantae wins, she'll unlock the dungeon where the Shimmerstone is located. If Rotty wins, she gets to eat Shantae's brain. However, if you lose the race [[That One Level|(and you likely will, at least once)]] Rottytops is willing to give Shantae a second chance, or even as many as she needs. And as fans of the series knows, this will be [[Running Gag|far from the last time]] Rotty makes jokes about wanting to eat Shantae but never going through with it.
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