In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Feynman tells of gambling at Vegas for the first time. He calculated his expected loss at craps at around a penny a game, so he tried it and lost 5 dollars right away -- and never gambled again. This lousy luck and good meta-luck has been engineered away, apparently.

In A Theory of Fun Raph Koster says fun is basically about learning. What video games teach you a feel for probabilities? There's poker -- anything else? There ought to be.