ABSTRACT
Once, I'm told, a certain judge decided that circumstances called for him to establish a line separating all g~mes into two categories-games of chance and games of skill. He extricated himself from this self-imposed trap, with something less than Solomonic wisdom, by decreeing that a game is one of chance if the player cannot succeed by skill more than half the time. The judge was "right," of course, just as the umpire is always right, even though not far away the living legend, Willie Mays, one of the most skillful baseball hitters of all time, was still demonstrating that even the best hitters do not succeed half the time.
