For many people, the words ‘betting’ and ‘gambling’ raise many eyebrows, and cause many frowns. Across the world, there are numerous campaigns targeting gambling addiction, with the aim of preventing people from mindlessly spending thousands of dollars. In the Middle East, gambling is often seen as contrary to religious or cultural beliefs. Hoping to tackle this issue, Aly Mahmoud and his team created ‘Dice Predictions’, the world’s first ‘halal sports betting’ platform. What is most surprising about this? Users pay absolutely nothing to play. So, what exactly is Dice Predictions? Dice is a platform for users to follow their favourite sports and leagues, while simultaneously making predictions on their chosen games. The accuracy of these predictions translates into a points system which ultimately ranks users against both their friends and other users predicting games for the same league How and when did you come up with the idea for Dice Predictions? My brother-in-law used to host these prediction competitions with his friends, family and co-workers where they would fill out an excel sheet with their predictions for an entire tournament, and then the top three would get prizes that are…
