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gambling-culture
The chapter explores a universe-wide gambling culture where fortunes and even worlds are wagered, and gamblers bear physical marks of their profession, such as broken thumbs.
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Space Chantey (1968)R. A. Lafferty
Chapter 7
Captain Roadstrum arrives on Roulettenwelt, a gamblers' world, and attempts to beat the games using a device called the Dong button that allows him to reverse and replay events. Despite skepticism from seasoned gamblers, he wins increasingly large stakes, eventually acquiring ownership of a thousand worlds. However, when he tries to gamble casually without the device, he quickly loses, highlighting the limits of his artificial advantage.