mechanical game
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English
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[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪm
Noun
[edit]mechanical game (plural mechanical games)
- (gambling) Any game based on chance rather than skill.
- 1990, Robert Rowe, How to Win At Horseracing, page 2:
- Anyone who bucks a purely mechanical game with a fixed deduction from each play must, over a period of time, wind up a loser.
- 2011, Kevin Blackwood, Casino Gambling For Dummies, page 300:
- And because poker is more of an art than a mechanical game, you can easily slip into bad habits and start making mistakes.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mechanical, game.