I used to think this too, but I changed my mind when a few years ago my sister wanted to play and I told her why it was a bad game because it's just based on luck, but I played anyway. She ended up getting something like 20 gimmels in a row and I got like 20 peys in a row, even after switching dreidels multiple times, and even switching where I was sitting, it was honestly one of the strangest moments of my life, it was as if god was completely rigging it against me. I think the lesson was that dreidel isn't about luck, it's about mazal.
Assuming that, over history, a billion Jews have lived and spun a dreidel a trillion times, it's safe to reject the null hypothesis of this being random and accept the alternate hypothesis that G-d exists and He wanted you to lose.
Yep, my s.o. wanted to play skip-bo, which is also a game so simple that it's just luck of the draw, and I lost 7 games straight after lamenting the randomness of it before we even started, which isn't as impressive of a streak as 20 but still, I understand that feeling.
My mother confessed she would cheat (or optimize!) the Candyland card deck so you wouldn't get sent back to the start near the end of the game... Wise woman!
