crapshoot

“Candidly to some degree it can be a crapshoot.”

The MLB postseason, which begins on Tuesday, is often described as a “crapshoot”—a zany, monthlong gauntlet where chaos reigns supreme and the best team in the regular season rarely wins.

I’m tired of going to games with my kids and having it turn into a boozy crapshoot, the difference between us having a nice day and a nightmare being the consumption of strangers.

TSA has often been a crapshoot, risking pileups as travelers pulled laptops from carry-ons and novice vacationers struggled to untie their sneakers.

Everyone could use a more extensive palette of human possibility than the one supplied by the crapshoot of an immediate family.