A debt acquired from games of rock, paper, scissors has been ruled as invalid.
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Edmund Mark Hooper owed $517,000 after losing a best-of-three game to Michel Primeau back in January 2011, but a court in Quebec has written the debts off as they decided the game is based more on chance than skill.
Quebc law stipulates that for a wager to be valid, it must be related to activities ''requiring only skill or bodily exertion on the part of the parties'' rather than to luck.
A reasonable amount of money must also be wagered.
The original 2017 judgement by Justice Chantal Chatelain ruled that the game could ''in certain precise circumstances, call upon the skill of the parties, particularly in the speed of execution, the sense of observation or the putting in place of a strategic sequence''.
Michel appealed the verdict but lost once again as the bet was considered too excessive.