List of notable wagers

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• Gautama Buddha's wager in the Kalama Sutta
• Wager between Yudhishthira and Shakuni in the Mahabharata
• Pascal's wager
• St. Petersburg paradox
• The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
• Fictional wager in Around the World in Eighty Days
• Wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale on whether a man could walk round the world and remain unidentified
• Wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich on commodity prices
• The annual Nenana Ice Classic, when the inhabitants of Alaska bet on when the ice will break on the Tanana River.
• Wager on Black hole information paradox: Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne against John Preskill (the wager)
• Julian Lincoln Simon and Paul R. Ehrlich wagered in 1980 on whether the inflation adjusted price of natural resources such as copper and nickel would be higher or lower over the next decade.
• The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr over whether Internet content in the future will be provided by volunteers as in the Wikipedia model; or provided by paid workers as in traditional news media such as CNN.
• Fictional wager by Mortimer and Randolph Duke on the fortunes of Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine in the movie Trading Places.