crapshoot
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Our travel columnist Dawn Gilberton’s experience in Lisbon and relatively smooth sailing in Paris and Rome this month underscore the crapshoot travelers face under the European Union’s new automated border-control system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And while high costs are certain, future returns are a crapshoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The crapshoot of a 162-game season and unpredictable playoff format still looms too, especially for a team that frequently faltered in the postseason before finally prevailing last October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
And though the draft is always a crapshoot, all teams get a better feel for the market of draftees at the NFL scouting combine, which will be held Feb. 26-March 4.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Friedman might be right about the playoffs being a crapshoot, but the Dodgers have made them more so with their inaction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
The short life of Christmas trees and their festal market has inspired produce dealers to describe this sideline to their business as "the greatest of crapshooting games."
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an Army chaplain in World War I, Parson Spence discouraged crapshooting in camp by rolling sevens himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a Senator from Kansas, Vice President Curtis himself perfected a sort of crapshooting style of finger-snapping that was the envy of younger Senators.
From Time Magazine Archive
That brought up tales of the old games, poker, faro, three card monte, blackjack, roulette—and crapshooting.
From Noble Redman by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
