Holiday Odds

The game of odds played when on holidays, where the probability is equal to 1 over the number of days left on holidays.

Example:
When there is 2 days left on your holiday so once called on odds you must do 2 to 1.

Guy 1: Holiday odds you'll ask that girl for her number?
Guy 2: Ok 3 to 1 so?
Guy 1 &2: 3..2..1.. 2!

by Pratroculas April 26, 2017

back odds

In a game of odds on, the first player will say "odds on you do x" to the second, implying they must give a number as odds to do a task x. Both players then say a number between 1 and the previously specified number. If the numbers are the same, the second player must do task x. However, if the second player says "back odds" after being presented with the initial challenge, the first player may instead end up doing task x. This happens if both of the numbers said add up to the odds given. This has lead to the crafty strategy of the second player asking for even odds with back odds, and saying the middle number. Therefore even if the first player were to say the same number, they would add to the odds, meaning the second player was safe and the first had to do the task, as back odds trumps the initial odds on. This is a legally binding contract and anyone failing to comply will be prosecuted in a court of law.

Player 1: Alright fella, odds on you shave off your eyebrow there.
Player 2: Ah mate that's kinda rough, ill do it back odds though.
1: Go on then ya cheeky cunt
2: 10 then.
*at the same time*: 3, 2, 1, 5
2: oh damn son you fool looks like your the one who's gonna be shaving his eyebrow today.
1: ah shit mate that was crafty, guess I'm gonna have to shave my eyebrow now seeing as how that we entered a legally binding contract and the numbers we chose both added to make the initial odds you gave me.

by OddsChamp January 21, 2019

Rules of Odds: Section 3

There are hotly debated rules of odds. However by definition section three states that if said loser of odds manages to escape paying the price on two separate occasions, they are therefore granted a free pass.

Section 3 also states that if over one week has passed since the original game of odds, then the loser is also granted a pass.

"Rules of Odds: Section 3 was granted to TJ's game of odds as she managed to evade the odds master on two separate occasions"

"TJ didn't have to shave her head because Rules of Odds: Section 3 was granted"

by Odds Master July 9, 2019

bet the odds against it all

is used when someone bets on something happening, even with a low possibility or likelihood of it happening.

I don't care if I don't win, I'll bet the odds against it all.

by MpatientfreaK October 16, 2022

Wizard of Odds

Master of Wordplay.

Witty Lizzy, word twister, merits the moniker Wizard of Odds.

by Wizard of Odds April 25, 2023

Fooled by the Odds Theory

A framework revealing how we misinterpret probability—not just by misunderstanding chance, but by being systematically misled by the very concept of odds. Fooled by the Odds Theory shows how statistical thinking can obscure individual experience, how aggregate probabilities can hide personal realities, and how the language of odds can make the improbable seem impossible—until it happens to you. We are fooled when we trust the odds more than our own experience, when we dismiss the unlikely as irrelevant.

Fooled by the Odds Theory "The odds were one in a million. It happened to her. 'But the odds...' we say, as if probability should have protected her. Fooled by the Odds: trusting statistics more than experience, believing the improbable can't happen because it's improbable. The odds fool us into thinking we're safe. Then the one-in-a-million happens, and we're shocked."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026

shouting the odds

A slur used to describe someone who has been shouting or arguing loudly.

“You were shouting the odds last night!”

by AwesomeGuy898 June 15, 2025