crapshoot

English Thesaurus

1. playing craps (noun.act)

hypernym	:	craps,
definition	:	a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice (noun.act)

2. a risky and uncertain venture (noun.act)

hypernym	:	danger, peril, risk,
definition	:	a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury (noun.act)

domain usage	:	colloquialism,
definition	:	a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication)