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I'm sure we're talking about how they were gambling on which slave to win at the end of the pod race.
I think both parties were cheating. Qui-gon waves his hand at the dice which suggests to me that he was manipulating it with the force.
But Watto proposed the bet with two possible outcomes and chose a six-sided dice to roll. He happened to have it on him, he seems sly when he's proposing the deal, suggests which colour will give his preferred outcome, and seems genuinely surprised and upset when he doesn't get what he wants.
I think Watto was using a loaded chance cube. And to be fair, that might not actually be illegal on Tatooine, but I have a feeling neither is shooting someone who tried to cheat you.
A lot of fans have debated about if Tatooine is fully outside the Republic, or if it is theoretically a Republic planet that is just outside of practical control.
If Tatooine is officially outside of the Republic, then the Hutt control is the only source of anything approaching law, and I don't think the Hutts actually care what random people do to each other. There's likely no codified law against loaded dice and shooting somebody for cheating.
If Tatooine is technically a Republic planet that is outside of practical Republic control, then technically there are probably laws against both that apply, but if there are no cops or courts to enforce laws, do they really exist?