Try one's luck with, anticipation, a kick at the can/cat, (a bit of) good luck, blunder on, hazard, and risk are all synonyms for chance. Certainty and surety are these antonyms of chance. And here are another 83 synonyms for chance.
Chance Synonyms
1. possibility
- Anticipation
- Conceivability
- Danger
- Expectation
- Fear
- Feasibility
- Hazard
- Hope
- Liability
- Likelihood
- Likeliness
- Menace
- Odds
- Opportunity
- Peril
- Plausibility
- Possibility
- Probability
- Prospect
- Risk
- Threat
- Promise
2. opportunity
- A kick at the can/cat
- Break
- Moment
- Occasion
- Opening
- Opportunity
- Shot
- Show
- Slot
- Time
- Turn
- Window (of opportunity)
- Look-in
3. accident
- (a bit of) good luck
- (a bit of) luck
- A fluke
- A happy chance
- A piece of good fortune
- A twist of fate
- Accident
- Accidentally
- By accident
- Coincidence
- Coincidentally
- Destiny
- Fate
- Fortuitously
- Fortuity
- Fortune
- Freak
- Happenstance
- Hazard
- Inadvertently
- Providence
- Serendipitously
- Serendipity
- Unawares
- Unintentionally
- Unknowingly
- Unwittingly
- Unconsciously
4. come across
- Blunder on
- Bump into
- Come across
- Come upon
- Find by chance
- Happen on
- Hit on
- Light on
- Meet (by chance)
- Run across
- Run into
- Stumble on
- Run against
5. risk
- Hazard
- Risk
- Try one's luck with
- Try
- Venture
- Essay