To Chance

The joy of handing the result over from your own skill to the dice. Sugoroku is a child of this spring. So are lotteries. So is gacha. Caillois brought gambling, which Huizinga had excluded, back to the center of play — a game of chance is not a game where effort goes unrewarded, but one where fortune can smile on anyone equally. Because chance closes the gap in skill, a child can beat an adult. W4's "The Vein of Chance" runs this spring all the way to the present in a single line, five thousand years long.