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The goal of this paper is to present the haphazard status of money games r in our private law which is both heavily influenced by ancient moral values and assailed by demands to accommodate the players’ bets based on chance and the goal of collecting their money. The taste for gambling has remained the same and bans have been progressively lifted. The Internet and the European Commission have been very influential in that respect. But one of the consequences of this normative evolution has been the inconsistency of the sources of law: the old civil code — the French common law quite conservative on this matter — remains unchanged, while the more and more liberal specialized law is flourishing on the side. Re-codifying the legal status of the gambling contract should be a welcome initiative.