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[[DealWithTheDevil Deals with Devils]] and ChessWithDeath are common examples. RussianRoulette is also related. If the game is televised, expect it to be an ImmoralRealityShow. Entertainment-hungry psychopaths might invoke this trope along with CriminalMindGames. LifeOrDeathQuestion will usually be an element. Related to TheBet and GamblingRuinsLives.

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[[DealWithTheDevil Deals with Devils]] and ChessWithDeath are common examples. RussianRoulette is also related. If the game is televised, expect it to be an ImmoralRealityShow. Entertainment-hungry psychopaths might invoke this trope along with CriminalMindGames. LifeOrDeathQuestion will usually be an element. Related to TheBet and GamblingRuinsLives. Games like JinxGame may surprisingly become this.
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** In the episode "Skips Strikes" has [[spoiler:Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets a bowling ball filled with souls.]] Mordecai and Benson aren't happy about this, even for a joyful, friendly old man like Pops.

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** In the episode "Skips Strikes" has [[spoiler:Rigby making a bet with Death: If Death's Team wins he'll get the team's souls and if Rigby's Team wins he gets a bowling ball filled with souls.]] Mordecai and Benson aren't happy about this, not even for a joyful, friendly old man like Pops.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Dagger Club", TheGamblingAddict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS17E1 The Dagger Club", Club]]", TheGamblingAddict is playing poker in an attempt to win his way out of debts. After going all in, the woman who holds his gambling debts goads him into betting more: his share of the book store he co-owns, and the missing manuscript that is the MacGuffin of the episode. He accepts and loses. When it turns out he never had the manuscript, the woman claims his wife's share of the book store as well, as recompense.
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** In ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'', we're introduced to Damage. Each player brings a team of Lives (mostly depressives, members of suicide cults, and other volunteers) and when the player loses a hand, one of the Lives is killed. When the player runs out of Lives, it's their own life on the line. Oh, and it's played in the most dangerous places in the galaxy -- the game we see on-page takes place on a world ''in the process of being demolished.''

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** In ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'', we're introduced to Damage. Each player brings a team of Lives (mostly depressives, members of suicide cults, and other volunteers) and when the player loses a hand, one of the Lives is killed. When the player runs out of Lives, it's their own life on the line. Oh, and it's played in the most dangerous places in the galaxy -- the game we see on-page takes place on a world ringworld ''in the process of being demolished.''

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