Gaming

A contract between two or more person Sf by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one may be the loser, and another the winner. To stake money on a chance, Whart. Grim. Law, § 1465. Any sport or play carried on between two persons, depending on skill, chance, or the transpiring of an unknown future event, on the result of which some valuable thing is to be, without consideration, transferred from one to the other. Bish. St, Crimes, § 861, The statutes against gaming are generally confined to games into which an element of chance enters. Thus, tenpins (8 Ired. [N. C] 271), foot ball (1 Mod. 136), and wrestling (2 Car. & P. 376) have been held not to be gaming. "Gaming" is synonymous with "gambling."

Bish. St. Crimes, § 858.

It is to be distinguished from "bet" or