The Best Picture Oscar is truly a crapshoot this year.
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Rediscovering her letters now is a bit of a crapshoot.
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CALLING THE bottom after share prices plunge is a crapshoot.
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It's a total crapshoot, but that's sort of the point.
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"It was a crapshoot with the wedding rings," he said.
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But more than that, young players are always a crapshoot.
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Those three factors have made the election a total crapshoot.
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It's a total crapshoot of how the show's going to be.
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That makes counting on the revenues a bit of a crapshoot.
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To some extent, early versions of software are usually a crapshoot.
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It was kind of a crapshoot whether someone would even pick up.
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Otherwise, trying to control it via the app is a complete crapshoot.
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It's one of those things that's technically possible, but a practical crapshoot.
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Finding that cutie on OKCupid, Tinder or Bumble can be a crapshoot.
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But if it was a crapshoot, you would see more Mike Piazzas.
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If you use something other than the included charger, it's a crapshoot.
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It's a crapshoot to go forward with an appeal ... for both sides.
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The rest of the time, getting the desired result is a crapshoot.
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Adding a dose of herding-driven uncertainty would render it a pure crapshoot.
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Opening night of a newly incorporated jazz group's residency can be a crapshoot.
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Anyone who has ever been prescribed migraine medication knows that it's a crapshoot.
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But that doesn't mean that planning a cost-effective trip is a crapshoot.
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"I think it's kind of a crapshoot either way," Debner told Business Insider.
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But it's often a crapshoot—you never know what people are going to want.
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A quick warning about crowdfunding: sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo can be a crapshoot.
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Images of yet-to-be-announced gadgets can be a bit of a crapshoot.
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Meanwhile, delivering content via Facebook Pages has become more of a crapshoot than ever.
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You have all those programs at your fingertips and then it's still a crapshoot.
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Alibaba and AliExpress have shady dummy phones, in bulk, but it's always a crapshoot.
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I haven't met any of these people yet, so it's a bit of a crapshoot.
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Clevo's laptops usually aren't anything special—they're budget machines and quality is always a crapshoot.
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The smartphone experience is always a bit of a crapshoot at a show like IFA.
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Large enterprise networks are a crapshoot, and the two devices were off again, on again.
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Beyond that, it's honestly a bit of a crapshoot who suffers when and who doesn't.
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During the last few years, Winter Jam in Central Park has become a climatological crapshoot.
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Put simply, if you have a severe allergy, any packaged product is kind of a crapshoot.
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Also, the keys aren't backlit, so using the Tab S250 keyboard at night is a crapshoot.
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Licensed video games are a crapshoot: sometimes you get GoldenEye 007, sometimes you get Superman 64.
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"When you get that deep into a shootout it's a bit of a crapshoot," Schneider said.
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Here's a dirty secret Mel Kiper doesn't want you to know: the draft is a crapshoot.
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A lot of the process is a crapshoot, which is why it's key to check postings frequently.
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It's a bit of a crapshoot in terms of where and when a person can see sunspots.
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Despite extensive study and several generations of well-marketed drugs, treating depression is still kind of crapshoot.
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But have no false hopes about what it's going to lead to because it's such a crapshoot.
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Getting into a hotel's complex of "regular" pools — or even finding them — is more of a crapshoot.
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"It's a little bit of a crapshoot when it comes down to that one week," Gushue said.
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I like the upgraded graphics on the games I've seen so far, but it really is a crapshoot.
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It hadn't occurred to me that stocking your pantry in a new place could be such a crapshoot.
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As far as iPhone names go, this one will probably be a crapshoot right up to the Apple announcement.
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It was a crapshoot working without the ability to screen or the ability to crowdsource investigating a specific individual.
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So you know what they say — it's become kind of a cliché now, to call the playoffs a crapshoot.
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While the summer may have some beauty benefits (hello, dewy skin!), it can seem like a crapshoot for your hair.
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It's always been a crapshoot knowing what my audio inputs and outputs would be every time I plugged something in.
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There's no standardization of this and no universally agreed-upon dosing, so it's essentially a crapshoot, like all supplements are.
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They need customizable buttons, a better place to store the nub, and accuracy settings that don't make gaming a crapshoot.
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The way the spread offense has taken over college football has made the N.F.L. draft even more of a crapshoot.
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The catch is, a kid's shot at engaging in healthy physical activity on a regular basis is essentially a crapshoot.
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Unless their name is Eliud Kipchoge, who has won 10 of his 23 marathon starts, the race is a crapshoot.
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The NHL playoffs are a crapshoot, and there's never going to be anything approaching a fair way to decide who's best.
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The 53,500 meters is a crapshoot but Kenya's Elijah Manangoi, Timothy Cheruiyot and Ronald Kwemoi have run 3:30 or faster.
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Successfully dressing for the weather between seasons is a crapshoot, but it's nothing compared to the confusion your hair's likely facing.
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You can search for broadcasters by name, but actually finding videos about the topics you are interested in was a crapshoot.
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Multiplayer games are usually a crapshoot, though he's found some success navigating Halo because the teams are given bright, standardized colors.
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USB-C hubs, much like USB-C chargers, are a total crapshoot, as anyone who owns a MacBook will tell you.
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"Blocking 222 alpha-reductase to any degree in the brain is a crapshoot," says Alan Jacobs, a New York–based neuroendocrinologist.
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But for the average transgender patient, finding a doctor with the appropriate training in hormone therapy could be a total crapshoot.
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The location accuracy is within a couple of meters, which is impressive inside, where GPS data is a crapshoot, at best.
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"So depending on whether it's running local or not, getting to work every morning is kind of a crapshoot," she said.
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It is very much a crapshoot, and you never really know what is going to hit a chord with the public.
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And most important of all, Apple can exercise tight quality control over Lightning implementations, whereas USB-C is kind of a crapshoot.
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"It was a crapshoot," recalled Berne Evans, the plain-spoken owner of Sun Pacific, during an interview in his office in Pasadena.
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Related: Building a Handgun Music Box Is a Crapshoot Hear a Yaybahar Vs. Synth Jam Session Rubik's Cubes Become a Musical Instrument
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Don't change it at all and it's a crapshoot: We'll either like this same stuff same time next year or we won't.
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"It's a crapshoot, a Pandora's box," said Alejandro Velasco, a Venezuelan historian at New York University who studies the country's leftist movements.
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It's a crapshoot to inject any amendment into an appropriations law — particularly when disagreements over immigration and border security are captivating national attention.
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Passing is a crapshoot, goals often brought about by divine intervention, and digital momentum is constantly at work inside the cartridge's plastic shell.
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"Oversight can be anywhere from pretty good in the U.S. and Europe while in many other places it's a crapshoot," Mr. Alexander said.
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"It is seen by them as more and more something they can't control, a crapshoot, so they pile them up," Mr. Poch said.
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Put five, eight, 12 or more people together in a room, and it's a crapshoot as to how well they'll function as a team.
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Buying secondhand tickets online has always been a crapshoot, but eBay spinoff StubHub has been working for years to make the experience less painful.
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The move in itself is extremely risky, and chances of success are low, especially since it's such a crapshoot which stocks will explode higher.
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Gaming headphones and headsets can be a real crapshoot, with some of them being downright excellent and others, the majority, tending toward poorly engineered disappointment.
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" Free mentorship, on the other hand, is a "crapshoot," says Kim, "since it can run the gamut of how effective the mentorship ends up being.
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While it&aposs clear that the numbers you want your box to feature are 7 and 0, football is a crapshoot, and anything can happen.
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What you find in her writing, rather, is a certain ruefulness—an understanding that life is a crapshoot that's been rigged, but to whose advantage?
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Yeah, I have like an aftermarket Bluetooth solution and it's a complete crapshoot as to whether or not it's going to work in the car.
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Without the partnership and blessing of a carrier, it's a crapshoot as to whether your new device will actually work properly when it's powered on stateside.
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But for people born into the broad middle 60 percent or so of the income distribution, experiencing upward mobility relative to your parents has become a crapshoot.
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Predicting the shorts categories is always a crapshoot, since it's impossible to say what the handful of Oscar voters who actually watch these movies will spark to.
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We're totally off book this year, and flying blind, which has leveled the playing field in some ways but also makes for an utter crapshoot of a draft.
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Maybe that is the case, but forgoing a whole season for the sole purpose of a literal crapshoot seems like the kind of thing that gets you fired.
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" Cashman long ago adopted the philosophy of his close friend Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, who coined the phrase, "The playoffs are a crapshoot.
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That's why trying to choose a ripe watermelon out of the tottering pile at the market can feel like such a crapshoot—but it doesn't have to be.
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Selection can often be a bit of a crapshoot, but if you can find books there that you're interested in, it'll likely be cheaper than almost anywhere else.
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He claimed on social media the hospital would not screen patients outside the facility for COVID-19 ... so when they got in the E.R. safety became a crapshoot.
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But it's still a crapshoot — especially when traveling to a strange city — and hey, if you can avoid plugging your personal devices into a strange port, all the better.
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"You have far more ability to control the electorate, where if everyone votes on Election Day it's more of a crapshoot," said Mike Noble, a Republican strategist in Arizona.
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Related: Now You Can Make Beats in Virtual Reality Building a Handgun Music Box Is a Crapshoot Artist Manipulates a Universe of Light and Sound with a Single Balloon
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The remarkable part is that when it all clicks, the entertainer can still dazzle an audience, though with the pharmaceutical complications involved, the process never stops being a crapshoot.
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Bottom line: vaping might be safer than some choices you can make, it's definitely worse than others, and beyond that, it's still a crapshoot when it comes to health risks.
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It would be nice if this means Google will eventually make it easier to run its software on your custom Android version, instead of a crapshoot of forums and filesharing.
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But any further advice about how to alter your TikTok algorithm is honestly a crapshoot, because we don't really have much insight as to how the For You algorithm works.
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It was always kind of a crapshoot as to how much of the game you'd actually see in between all of the buffering and pop-ups and losses of connection.
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Grandmas and aunts and uncles are the givers who are most likely to give a gift certificate or a gift card instead of the crapshoot of choosing a specific gift.
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Buying pot in the United States used to be a crapshoot: You'd call your dealer and take whatever strain he had on hand, without much semblance of quality control or selection.
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Crowdfunding is often a crapshoot, all the more so when it involves hardware hackers with little to no retail experience trying to produce a consumer product and get it onto shelves.
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The draft is a crapshoot and hindsight isn't fair, and if Orlando played its cards perfectly they might have Devin Booker and Giannis Antetokounmpo on their roster, but that's not the point.
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Hollywood has learned a lot about Chinese moviegoers in recent years, but releasing films in the country — the world's No. 2200 market behind the United States — remains a crapshoot for American studios.
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It's useful because it's always a crapshoot what will happen when you ask the Assistant to call somebody by their first name — or if somebody else in your house does the same.
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But instead, prepackaged fast-food buffalo sauces are so varying in flavor, spiciness, and texture that asking for buffalo sauce on the side of your chicken tenders can be a tastebud crapshoot.
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Going to see the iconoclastic hip-hop legend live is a crapshoot—she might be late, she might cancel at short notice—though thousands will still get tickets, half as a pilgrimage.
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AFC Championship stats: 12 carries, 41 rushing yards, 4 receptions, 23 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns One thing to know: Picking a Patriots running back to go off in any game is always a crapshoot.
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I'll also note that I like Asus' camera software — including the easy-to-understand beauty modes — but knowing what results you'll get between "Auto HDR+" and "HDR++" modes is a bit of a crapshoot.
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By late October, when his odds of winning the election look more like a crapshoot than a coin flip, hinting that a Clinton win will prove the election was a fraud is flatly absurd.
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The company isn't really giving exact details as to where or when you'll be able to pick one up, so it's still a bit of a crapshoot as to whether or not you'll get one.
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With Google's Home devices, it's often a crapshoot whether or not I'll be able to send music or podcasts to them without restarting my app, the device, or my router at least once a week.
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Flag took some time to launch, clearly – something that angered many of the campaign's backers who still believe that crowdfunding a project online is promise of delivery, and not the crapshoot that it really is.
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The crapshoot-like nature of shootouts is confirmed by Mr Palacios-Huerta's observation that the higher-ranked team is no more likely to triumph than the underdog, with no slant toward the home side either.
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But without clear guidance from DOJ or FTC on the role, degree and effect of innovation, as well as other relevant topics, the decision-making process to commence a vertical transaction becomes essentially a crapshoot.
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"I find the usefulness of datamining techniques to be a crapshoot," said Dev Kantesaria, founder of Valley Forge Capital Management, a hedge fund based in Wayne, Pennsylvania with about $410 million in assets under management.
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Rajan David Ahuja, vice president at R&R Royalty, a Texas-based company that has leases on land roughly equivalent to the size of Rhode Island, said that building landholdings like this was a crapshoot.
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Nonetheless, even after 22 wins in a row, the smart money is still against the Indians—simply because the MLB playoffs, which consist of three rounds of short series contended between good teams, remain a crapshoot.
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It was a crapshoot, and it was unsuccessful: Aliens had not, in fact, been sending us messages from those stars 10.5 or 12 years earlier — at least not at the frequency Drake guessed aliens would use.
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Unlike drafts in the N.B.A. and the N.F.L., which are showcases for players who are known to many fans, the Major League Baseball first-year player draft is still, after all these years, largely a crapshoot.
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If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals of its battery-powered two-wheelers for a flat rate of $24.99.
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What is missed in all of this is the mindset of craftsmanship; that one's expertise and deliberate focus on one's craft is actually the primary driver for success — and not some crapshoot of a series of hacks.
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Richardson says that, in addition to reinforcing some theories, the data also could have interesting implications for sexual assault prevention, especially since the quality and content of sex ed in the US is basically a geographical crapshoot.
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"It's really just a crapshoot on whether the train's going to run on time," said Jeremy King, 27, who has been riding New Jersey Transit from Princeton Junction to Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan for more than two years.
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Stephens has always been the kind of fighter who could beat anyone in his division on any given night, it's just that he relies on a crapshoot to do it and more often than not doesn't pull it off.
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The project's success should prove an interesting insight into the Indiegogo/Arrow partnership, as well as a barometer as to whether external inputs from a manufacturing partner can help crowdfunding hardware campaigns feel like a little less of a crapshoot.
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Thus, House Republicans move to gut the very system that demands answers to questionable tactics and practices and guard against corruption was a "House of Cards" horror optics crapshoot which backfired and constituents rightly slap-backed against the politically salacious maneuver.
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Unfortunately, knowing whether or not it will be great for your purposes is more of a crapshoot: you have to do a ton of research to know if the apps you need will work well on this computer (or at all!).
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So if you have spent the last four years combing over every detail of the sequel trilogy story, and you expect answers and a perfectly polished plot with neat bows everywhere ... well, then your reaction is likely more of a crapshoot.
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In fact, women's health care has often been a crapshoot, largely because of its history of being controlled by men — the rate of deaths due to childbirth increased temporarily but sharply when doctors took over from midwives in the early 20th century.
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It's all a crapshoot, so go ahead and eat the slice of pizza or order the $12 gin cocktail — but for the love of all that is good and holy, do yourself a favor and wash your face before going to bed.
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In Russia, where I now lived, not only had the vast majority of people never been on the internet (or even heard of it), the phone lines were often so poor that maintaining a dial-up connection long enough to stay online was a crapshoot.
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Instead of simply hiring an agency and entering a crapshoot in terms of who will become part of your outsourced team, the idea is to contract with named individuals at the agency, either for a set amount of time or throughout a much longer-term project.
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Apparently we weren't alone in that, as the Australian startup scored a massive $1.8 million on Kickstarter soon after – doubly impressive when you consider that, for those who didn't get a chance to try the things on, backing the project was a bit of a crapshoot.
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It's a bit of a crapshoot to buy dresses online without trying them on first, but you still have better odds (both of finding something and of retaining your dignity) than walking into the store only to find that it doesn't have anything you want in your size.
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Sands's presence on the team is a result of the MLS's Homegrown Player Rule, which rewards teams for setting up local development academies with the promise that they'll be able to sign their area's brightest future talents instead of simply relying on the crapshoot that is the MLS draft.
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But even with that resource, it's going to be a crapshoot—involving deep-sea forum diving; the luck of the draw that an old FTP site has been archived; and possibly even hitting a sketchy Russian download site, which is sketchy, but at least has the file you need.
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And on the eve of Sanders' endorsement of Clinton, whether his army of millennial voters — who've expressed a strong dislike for Clinton politically and personally throughout my reporting on the trail — bring themselves to vote for who they deem a symbol of political corruption and corporatism is a total crapshoot.
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YARDS, SCHMEAR and STAYS UP were already in the puzzle, and once I realized that 55A was Mauna LOA and not Mauna Kea (that's always a crapshoot with a fill-in-the-blank clue), I guessed that the answer to 50D's "Commodious ... or, phonetically, a clue for 58-Across?" was ROOMY.
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Where it's available: PointsBetOdds: Teammates (+150), God (+275), Family (+350), Fans (+400), City (+550), Coach (+900), No thanks offered (+1600), Owner (+1800)Should you bet it: This seems like a crapshoot, and a lot of the MVP's response depends on how they are prompted by whoever is holding the microphone.
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There was the birth itself, a terrifying crapshoot: My insurance agreed to cover a home birth and prenatal care provided by home-birth midwives, but it was unclear what would happen if I ended up giving birth in the hospital, as a percentage of moms attempting home births do for one reason or another.
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Cam Newton has nine touchdowns and ten interceptions in eight games and the Panthers are headed toward the playoffs because football is a crapshoot like no other sport, and players don't matter, for we are all part of a human experiment known as life where chaos and randomness rule us despite our best efforts to seek control.
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Then I would have had to share the ride with some stranger who may or may not be nice, may or may not have an obnoxious amount of luggage, and may or may not be going somewhere I'd consider out of the way (Uber says POOL does not "significantly increase travel time," but, in practice, it's a crapshoot).
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Charlotte Hornets The Hornets were supposed to be much worse, but the combination of a soft first-half schedule, their league-leading eight victories in the crapshoot of one-possession games (103-6) — those decided by 3 points or fewer — and a wholly unexpected breakout for the unheralded Devonte' Graham have enabled them to stay within range of a playoff spot.
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