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== [[Action Adventure]] ==

** In ''Link to the Past'', there's some similar places where you pay your money and then open one treasure chest, getting a certain amount of rupees. One of these places holds [[Heart Container|a Piece of Heart]] in one of the chests, and in general the odds are ''much'' more in your favor.

* [[Minigame Zone|Two Zeelichian casinos]] in ''[[Little Big Adventure]] II''. Thankfully, if you do manage to run out of money, you can always get a few coins from a random flower pot or trash can and start again.

* In ''[[Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins|Alundra 2]]'', you can bet your gold on bull fights.

* You could also gamble in a casino. One of the gilded falcons you could collect to get item upgrades could be won by winning a wheel spinning game a number of times in a row. Problem was, the odds of winning any given spin was about 1 in 3 - with the possibility of no winner (like a regular roulette wheel). You had to win 4 times in a row in order to get the falcon - literally odds of 1 in 81 assuming you never hit black. There seemed to no pattern you could follow to achieve victory, only odds and guesswork.

* Indie game ''[[An Untitled Story]]'' features a blackjack game in birdtown where you can wager your crystals. However, [[Save Scumming|saving and reloading]] [[Defied Trope|isn't exploitable]]. The money loss is saved in the file even if ''you don't save''.

* ''Cool World'', for SNES, has a casino. You can bet your wood coins.

* In ''[[Antarctic Adventure|Penguin Adventure]]'', the shops have slot machines on which you can bet fish. You can only play each one three times unless you possess a certain item.

 

== [[Adventure Game]] ==

 

 

* After Blizzard added a random number command to ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', players would often run their own simple betting games in the major cities. This activity was ultimately banned, in part because of how many players were doing it and clogging up the chat window.

** There were also all the GM tickets caused by poor losers.

== [[Platform Game]] ==

* ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' makes you play slots between levels with the coins you've collected, but that's okay, because that's all they're good for. A player who's reasonably good at timing his button presses can gain an extra life for nearly every coin he puts in once he's gotten one.

* ''[[Wario Land|Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3]]'', at the end of each level, allows you to play a game in which you pick one of two buckets. One has a moneybag, which doubles the coins you collected in the level, and the other has a 10 ton weight which cuts your coins in half. You can pick up to three times. In this game, the ending is based on how many coins and treasures you get.

* Casino Night Zone in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' with its slot machines (including one which, if you weren't quick enough, you were doomed to be bounced back into as soon as you were done) and then the Bonus Stage of ''Sonic and Knuckles'' which was basically the same thing stuck into the perpetual-rotating dimension of the first Special Stages.

* ''[[Super Mario 64]] DS'' has 8 betting mini-games (all which are from Luigi, and the '''Pair-and-Gone and On''' mini-game does not have coins, so it doesn't count), and some of the mini-games must be unlocked by capturing Green Bunnies/Rabbits (they will only appear when playing as Luigi, as far as I know). The money used in the mini-games are coins (obviously). However, the coins in the mini-games are not used in-game.

* ''[[Spelunky]]'' features dice shops. They don't sell the dice.

** It's interesting to note that because of the way it's set up (You roll two die. 1-6 is a loss for you, 7 gets you an item, and 8-12 gets you your money back doubled) if you play forever, you'll roughly break even, and get all the items you need.

 

 

* The Pazaak card game in ''Star Wars: [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]''. It was basically blackjack with the rules altered slightly.

** Need money? Let's travel in hyperspace to Yavin. Want that expensive armour he's selling? How about a few hands of Pazaak? It was quite a disappointment when he suddenly caught on.

 

== [[Wide Open Sandbox]] ==

** Don't forget about pool. I could spend all day playing pool in that game.

** ''[[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony|Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad Of Gay Tony]]'' had a game where you could either walk into a fight arena for a small entry fee, and keep fighting until you fell (or pull out when you knew it was imminent) or bet a potentially insane amount on someone else's fight. Save scumming is possible with either.

 

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