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An Open Letter to SHG Players

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 5:40 a.m.

In Response To: An Open Letter to SHG Players (Timothy Chow)

Perhaps SHG could create an option where two players could, by mutual agreement, opt to use the old dice generator

The possiblities are endless! The local poker room could attract players with some tables that use a 49-card deck. A chess server might recruit new members with some games where one side or the other is randomly allowed to move twice in a row. A racquet club could redesign some courts in the shape of parallelograms.

Moving beyond the obvious, however, there is an interesting question as to what SHG should do now, and whether we can/should help them.

How about they help themselves by soon announcing (1) we had a problem (2) this is what the problem caused (3) this is what the problem was (4) this is what we've done to fix it (5) this is why we're sure we have fixed it (6) we're very sorry we didn't catch it earlier ourselves and (7) here are some links for further reading on dice, probability and random dice generators, for those few inclined to reach such things.

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An exercise: See http://www.bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?view+712 and http://www.bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?view+1425 and calculate the probability of throwing (a) X and (b) at least X doubles in the 2*Y = ~55 rolls in an average DMP game.

Messages In This Thread

• An Open Letter to SHG Players
  W Womack -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 8:55 a.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 10:08 a.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players - Up to version .34 in past 2 hours
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 2:32 p.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Havard Raddum -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 10:44 a.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 11:32 a.m.
      • An Open Letter to SHG Players
        Neil Robins -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 12:14 p.m.
        • An Open Letter to SHG Players
          W Womack -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 1:56 p.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 1:13 p.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Jason Lee -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 5:55 p.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 10:22 p.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 10:47 p.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      W Womack -- Monday, 19 October 2009, at 11:52 p.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 2:54 a.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      W Womack -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 4:37 a.m.
      • An Open Letter to SHG Players
        Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 6:25 p.m.
        • An Open Letter to SHG Players
          W Womack -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 6:41 p.m.
          • An Open Letter to SHG Players
            Frank_N_Stein -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 3:11 a.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 5:40 a.m.
      • An Open Letter to SHG Players
        W Womack -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 2:44 p.m.
  • SHG Upgrading BG to 3.0.35 tomorrow morning
    Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 6:20 a.m.
    • SHG Upgrading BG to 3.0.35 tomorrow morning
      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 2:25 p.m.
  • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 2:38 p.m.
    • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
      Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 8:27 p.m.
      • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
        Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 20 October 2009, at 9:48 p.m.
        • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
          Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 4:36 p.m.
    • Old story - Cribbage
      Michael Petch -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 7:21 a.m.
    • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
      Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 4:23 p.m.
    • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
      Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 7:02 p.m.
    • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
      J. Dawkins -- Monday, 26 October 2009, at 8:56 p.m.
      • Old story, but maybe worth repeating
        Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 27 October 2009, at 9:59 p.m.
      • 3-away 7-away cube action
        Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 28 October 2009, at 12:37 a.m.
        • I'm going to repeat this subject line until I get it right *NM*
          Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 28 October 2009, at 1:07 a.m.
  • An Open Letter to SHG Players
    Caryl Stephanson -- Monday, 26 October 2009, at 7:45 p.m.
    • An Open Letter to SHG Players
      Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 27 October 2009, at 8:43 a.m.
      • An Open Letter to SHG Players
        Caryl Stephanson -- Tuesday, 27 October 2009, at 7:21 p.m.