Showing posts with label superstition. Show all posts
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Testing Dice Fairness

At my game yesterday, one of my players complained about her terrible dice rolls.  She seemed convinced that they were magically biased against her.  She's a statistician so I suggested she determine empirically whether her dice were likely to be biased by rolling them a lot and then use that to determine the likelihood of their bias.  It's a classic probability problem.  Needless to say she didn't, but it got me thinking.  Given how superstitious gamers are about their dice such a test might actually be interesting to do.

The only people I've seen who seem devoted to dice innovation is a company called Game Science.  I haven't used their dice though.  I think I might buy a set, test them, and compare them to my existing dice.