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Your map of gambling literacy.

Five domains, taken in any order, but each builds the muscle for the next.

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Reasoning

Why the math works against you and why the brain misreads risk.

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    Parlays, Probability, and Expected Value
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    The House Edge Across Products
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    Skill, Variance, and Why Sharp Bettors Still Lose
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    The Brain Tricks That Help You Lose
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    How Apps Exploit These Tricks
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    House Edge Exit Ticket
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Influence

How ads, social media, and peers influence betting habits.

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    The Scale of Gambling Advertising
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    Decode the Hype: Reading Sports Betting Ads
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    Platform Tactics: Algorithms, Affiliates, and Tipsters
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    Peer Pressure Math: Norms vs Reality
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    Refusal and Reframing in the Group Chat
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Vulnerability

How young people build warning-sign awareness and protective rules.

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    The Adolescent Brain and the Reward System
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    The Escalation Cycle: Recreational to Disordered
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    Warning Signs Checklist
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    Pre-commitment and Personal Rules
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  5. vulnerability · 35m
    What to Do If You or a Friend Notice a Problem
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Protection

Acting on what you know: limits, self-monitoring, and asking for help.

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    Why People Gamble: Functions and Alternatives
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    Financial Harm and the Universal Risk Test
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    Self-Monitoring as a Habit
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    Help-Seeking and Stigma
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    Your Protective Plan
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Lesson

Spot the Setup: What Even Counts as Gambling?

Use the stake-plus-chance-plus-prize framework to classify any product on the gambling spectrum.

Recognition30 minMasteredOpen
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Where Gambling Hides in Games

Catalog the digital product categories where gambling structure shows up most often in a young person's life: loot boxes, gacha, social casinos, skins, packs, DFS, and sportsbook content.

Recognition35 minMasteredOpen
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Why Games Feel Like Gambling

Three engineered mechanics that explain why gambling-like products are hard to stop using even when the math is understood: variable ratio reinforcement, near-miss design, and loss disguised as a win.

Recognition35 minLearningOpen
Lesson

Designed to Hook You

Three categories of structural design in betting and gaming apps - dark patterns, sludge, and dark nudges - plus a four-scan audit method and the Recognition capstone activity.

Recognition35 minNot startedOpen
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Know the Field

Map the gap between gambling law on paper and the products students can actually reach — sweepstakes casinos, social casino apps, offshore sites, and the prevention window between 18 and 21.

Recognition30 minNot startedOpen
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Parlays, Probability, and Expected Value

Three-layer professional learning: the math (implied probability, EV, vig, parlays), the brain moves that compete with the math in real time during simulation (loss aversion, sunk cost, near-miss, certainty), and the transferable consumer-decision skill students leave with.

Reasoning55 minNot startedOpen
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The House Edge Across Products

Compare the house edge across sportsbooks, slots, lotteries, and loot boxes. Translate vig, RTP, takeout, and drop rate into a single per-attempt expected loss.

Reasoning35 minNot startedOpen
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Skill, Variance, and Why Sharp Bettors Still Lose

Define skill, variance, and edge as three separate concepts; show why expert bettors who pick winners above chance still lose money on average.

Reasoning35 minNot startedOpen
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The Brain Tricks That Help You Lose

Six core cognitive distortions that explain why bettors keep playing negative-EV products: gambler's fallacy, hot hand, illusion of control, near-miss effect, confirmation bias, and chasing losses.

Reasoning40 minNot startedOpen
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How Apps Exploit These Tricks

Map each cognitive distortion to a specific sportsbook design feature - live in-play, “risk-free” framing, streak displays, personalized odds, push notifications - and run the Reasoning capstone audit.

Reasoning35 minNot startedOpen

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