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[[File:RouletteWheelOfFail350 3192.jpg|frame|[[Death Note|Exactly as planned]].]]
{{quote|''"How can anyone, even skilled conspirators, predict with perfect accuracy the outcome of a car crash? How can they know in advance that a man will go to a certain pay phone at a certain time, so that he can see a particular truck he needs to see? How can the actions of security guards be accurately anticipated? Isn't it risky to hinge an entire plan of action on the hope that the police won't stop a car speeding recklessly through a downtown area?"''
A convoluted [[Plan]] that relies on events completely within the realm of chance yet comes off without a hitch.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[Death Note]]'' is essentially Gambit Roulette: the series. The most impressive is the plan that [[Wham! Episode|changes the course of the entire series]]—Light arranging {{spoiler|L's death}} while coming off completely above suspicion—which involves an extended [[Memory Gambit]], at the end of which every element needed to be exactly in the place they were in order to work.
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* [[Spider-Man]]'s infamous [[The Clone Saga|Clone Saga]] was eventually revealed to be a massive Gambit Roulette by [[Norman Osborn]].
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' Gendo admits this is what his plans amount to. Although, considering the setting, even [[Xanatos Gambit]]s are in risk of becoming like this. Why? Well, because [[Eldritch Abomination|Nyarlathotep]] is a [[Spanner in the Works|dick]].
* ''In [[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Draco remembers a tragedy play his father brought him to see (an expy of [[Death Note]]), and at the end, Lucius asked him what the meaning of the play was. Draco mistook it to be as clever as the characters. His father chastised him, saying that any plan that requires more than three steps to succeed is unlikely to the point of worthless. And because only a fool goes with a plan that is barely possible, you really should never plan more than two steps.
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