Yeah I remember in highschool trying to play MTG with some friends during study hall and having one of the monitors come over and tell us no card games were allowed because of gambling, except go-fish apparently? Idk why go-fish would be less possible to gamble on, but...
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atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider. Card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that’s not permitted on school premesis.
WrittenInRed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Start a gambling club that only plays high stakes go-fish games with real money
WrittenInRed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah I think my friends and I had joked that we should play go fish and super obviously gambling and exchanging money, and when someone came over be like "I mean you guys did say go-fish is allowed." Then if that was banned move to like betting on chess or something and get increasing ridiculous from there.
Also phones were fully allowed during our study halls so if people actually wanted to gamble they could very easily do so on them lol. I think game pigeon even has poker so you could basically do it undetectably via that.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
And if money is banned, switch to Russian Roulette
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok, got any mountains?
No take 10 damage and tap a creature in play.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
Dude I made since good money being on lunch gofish
FishFace@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“usually”?
Not where I’m from (which isn’t NYC)
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I’ve lived in several states and while I don’t know the policies for everyone state I’ve lived in’s public schools, I do know that the school’s my son has attended also have such rules.
So I guess YMMV.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
IIRC from the Pokemon days, there were a lot of concerns around the ‘prize’ scoring system, with the idea that you’d take the opponent’s prize cards when you knocked out a Pokemon. Misunderstanding/holdover from Pogs, I think (where getting the other player’s pogs was a thing).
Couple that plus stories of kids getting knifed over holo Charizards, and I kinda get why schools were concerned (putting aside the ‘that’s not how the game works’ + ‘that was one psycho kid’ elements).