Look up wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wager can refer to: Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain...

Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. The book focuses on the Wager Mutiny...

Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...

HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for...

Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...

Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something...

Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925 – December 26, 2011[citation needed]) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in...

Form 730, Tax on Wagering, is used to compute excise taxes for both legal and illegal wagers of certain types. For state authorized wagers placed with bookmakers...

Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...

The Atheist's wager, coined by the philosopher Michael Martin and published in his 1990 book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, is an atheistic response...

Anthony A. Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer. He is best known for portraying the role of the young Pip...

Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. She married William Wager, but was widowed in...

down a legal wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the party lost, the wager went to the other...

Wager's Action was a naval confrontation on 8 June 1708 N.S. (28 May O.S.), between a British squadron under Charles Wager and the Spanish treasure fleet...

The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon...

name HMS Wager. Another was planned but later cancelled: HMS Wager (1739) was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager (1744)...

Loki's wager is the insistence that because two or more categories exist as poles on a spectrum with a grey area in the middle, the distinction between...

Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses...

The Transhumanist Wager is a 2013 science fiction novel by American author Zoltan Istvan. The novel follows the life of Jethro Knights, a philosopher...

A scientific wager is a wager whose outcome is settled by experiment or observation, following the scientific method. It typically comprises a commitment...

Compurgation, also called trial by oath, wager of law, and oath-helping, was a defence used primarily in medieval law. A defendant could establish his...

Pascal's Wager is a Soulslike action role-playing video game developed by TipsWorks and published by Giant Network and Yooreka Studio. Players control...

Archibald Wager was an 18th-century civil servant in colonial Virginia. Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three counties: Hampshire County (1755–1757)...

Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine...

William Wager (fl. 1566), writer of interludes, is known only by his works. 'A very mery and pythie Commedie, called, The longer thou livest, the more...

ESPN Bet Live (formerly Daily Wager) is an American sports betting discussion program, broadcast by ESPN2 on Thursday, Friday, and Monday evenings, and...

Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was...

Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty...

became #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Grann's latest book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, was published in April 2023. It...