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0 pointsrtkwe1y ago0 comments

I know that. I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times. I could have chosen a different move but after going A to B to A and rolling 3 AGAIN I was more interested in seeing if that was a fluke or if it was something else happening.

Being able to do that 20+ times makes it really improbable the rolls were truly random numbers hence my question.

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dragonwriter1y ago

> I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times.

For a fair single die, every possible sequence of a given length is equally (im)probable. We tend to notice the ones that are particularly convenient or inconvenient, but they are exactly as likely as any of the less memorable ones.

rtkweOP1y ago

Yes I know this but also tweaking the weights of rolls to be lower as you near the hole will also be less frustrating to the players.

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