chance outcome
Luck-based conclusion
A chance outcome is a result determined by randomness rather than skill, intention, or predictable causes.
The term appears in probability, statistics, and gaming contexts: The experiment measured chance outcomes across a thousand coin flips.
Whether something counts as a chance outcome often matters legally and philosophically—distinguishing gambling from skill-based competition, or free will from determinism.
- luckChance affecting outcomes
- pure luckEntirely unearned good fortune
- blind luckUnearned good fortune
- randomOccurring without pattern
- fatePredetermined course of events
twist of fate · gamble · probability · dice · roll of the dice · odds · fortune · fluke · accident · lottery · luck of the draw · risk · unpredictable · roll · spin · result · happenstance · serendipity