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* The entire House of the Dzur in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' novels. Tazendra gets most of them on the page, but that's just because she's the most prominent Dzur character.
** [[Light Bulb Joke|How many Dzur does it take to sharpen a sword? Four. One to sharpen the sword, three to put up enough of a fight to make it worthwhile.]]
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
{{quote|'''Liartes:''' That's pretty uneven odds, isn't it?
'''Hrun:''' Yah. I outnumber you one to two. }}
* In ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Vicomte De Bragelonne]]'', d'Artagnan proposes to raise his own army of forty men and restore Charles II to the English throne (for profit!). Planchet, who is putting up half the money, protests: "Forty against forty thousand! That is not enough. I know very well that you, M. d'Artagnan, alone, are equal to a thousand men; but where are we to find thirty-nine men equal to you?"
* In ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'':
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* In ''[[The Wheel of Time|Towers of Midnight]]'' Birgitte tells Mat that the odds of getting back from the Tower of Ghenjei are one in a thousand. Mat responds by taking out "two dozen" coins and predicting that when he throws them every single one will land heads up (1/16777216 chance if there were exactly 24). They do, and Mat remarks that "One in a thousand is good odds, for me."
== Live
* Done twice in ''[[Angel]]'', the second time in the finale.
{{quote|'''Gunn:''' I'll take the 20,000 on the left....}}
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* ''[[Bionicle]]'':
{{quote|'''Kongu''':Five of us, 5000 of them. I like your idea of fair odds, Hahli.}}
== Video Games ==
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* Near the climax of ''[[Space Quest| Space Quest V]]'', W-D40 tells Roger that her plan to board ''The Goliath'' and administer a cure to its crew has a 29% chance of success - not good odds. However, she also calculates that there is a 93% chance of the infected crew causing a galaxy-wide [[Zombie Apocalypse]] should the plan fail. Thus, as bad as their chances are, it’s not a matter of like or dislike.
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'':
{{quote|''"Upon reflection, Redglare showed the foresight of a true seer in thieving my arm before the trial. [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s{{=}}6&p{{=}}005653 It permitted a fair fight.]"''}}
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