Sentences with phrase «game of roulette»

Imagine playing a twisted game of roulette where you can only win if the wheel lands on green, and if it does land you still only get paid double your original wager (Instead of 17x).

Picking winners and losers in this interconnected risk management puzzle is like playing ten games of roulette simultaneously — you can only win if every bet comes in.

It may be a game of roulette, but it's better than ruining an entire batch of biscuits.

All that jostling and bumping around will expedite the dulling process, and also make each time you reach into the drawer a game of roulette.

10.30 am — Half hour is usually spent trapped in the nursing chair while Alex has the laziest feed ever and then it's a game of roulette trying to get him into his cot without waking him up.

Furiously crunching numbers on their computers, the researchers put the odds of impact in the year 2029 at exactly those of hitting the number in a game of roulette: 1 in 37.

The researcher likens this step to a game of roulette, where the different types of cells can be thought of as the differently numbered slots in the roulette wheel that catch the ball.

Buying fabric online is a game of roulette I like to play.

I like the flexibility the new industry provides but it still feels like a game of roulette sometimes!

Not to knock agents and all they do for an author, but personally, shopping one's book around to small presses or mid sized presses could mean that the book does get published a little sooner, but again, it's all a game of roulette as there may be snags and bumps in the road that delay publication.

If you're trying to get rich quick by dumping your retirement funds into BTC at $ 10k, then your «investment strategy» is not much better than someone betting everything on a game of roulette.

Android updates sometimes feel like a game of roulette.

A one - time mailing is like betting all your money on # 7 in a game of roulette.