Rock, Paper, Scissors!
A man who lost a best-of-three game of rock, paper, scissors was in court after he bet $517,000 (€477,800).
Edmund Mark Hooper lost a high risk game of rock, paper, scissors to Michel Primeau in January 2011. Hooper had to remortgage his house to pay his forfeit, but now the court has written off his debts.
SkyNews reports that Quebec law states, any contract for a bet requires the bet to be based on an activity "requiring only skill or bodily exertion on the part of the parties" and not solely chance .
The court of appeal has to make a decision whether rock, paper, scissors was a game of luck or strategy.
The original judgement by Justive Chantal Chatelain in 2017 ruled that the game could ''in certain precise circumstances, call upon the skill of the parties, particularly in the speed of execution, the sense of observation or the putting in place of a strategic sequence''.
Justice Chatelain overturned the judgement, claiming that the size of the bet was too excessive.
The Court of Appeal has upheld this decision.
