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Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:21 p.m.

In Response To: Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice (Robert Chow)

I disagree that it simplifies the game.

To address your specific examples it is just as likely that those rolls have not been played yet making them more likely and also just as likely that these differences make a play choice closer instead of more clear.

55 and 66 are easy to play in a race. How is starting a new game simpler than finishing a race?

It also won't speed up the game. Mental energy must be spent keeping track of what has been played and even if that is given every situation involving counting shots or doing a 1 ply or 2 ply analysis will be different than what one already knows.

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• Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
  Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 4:30 p.m.
  • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
    Robert Chow -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 8:55 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Bob Koca -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:21 p.m.
      • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
        Robert Chow -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:44 p.m.
        • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
          Bob Koca -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:55 p.m.
          • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
            Robert Chow -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 11:24 p.m.
  • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
    Bob Koca -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:12 p.m.
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    AdamStocks -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:25 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Bob Koca -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 10:39 p.m.
      • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
        AdamStocks -- Saturday, 19 April 2014, at 11:44 p.m.
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    phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 2:45 a.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Bob Koca -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 3:38 a.m.
      • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
        Jason Lee -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 2:13 p.m.
        • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
          phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 6:01 p.m.
      • why not have both?
        phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 5:59 p.m.
        • why not have both?
          Stick -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 7:33 p.m.
          • why not have both?
            Bob Koca -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 8:26 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      AdamStocks -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 5:35 a.m.
      • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
        AdamStocks -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 6:31 a.m.
        • good information...what about customized dice?
          phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 5:56 p.m.
          • good information...what about customized dice?
            Rod -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 5:16 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Chiva Tafazzoli -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 8:54 a.m.
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    ah_clem -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 1:34 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 2:50 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 3:10 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      Bob Koca -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 5:41 p.m.
    • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
      6stones -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 6:35 p.m.
      • Backgammon variant with slightly non-random dice
        6stones -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 7:01 p.m.
        • I have played this game several times
          phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 7:54 p.m.
      • two reasons
        phil simborg -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 7:52 p.m.
        • two reasons
          Bob Koca -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 8:23 p.m.
          • two reasons
            phil simborg -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 12:43 a.m.
            • two reasons
              Bob Koca -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 2:28 a.m.
              • two reasons
                Stick -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 2:36 a.m.
                • two reasons
                  phil simborg -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 3:30 a.m.
                  • two reasons
                    Stick -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 3:59 a.m.
                    • two reasons--response was directed to Koca
                      phil simborg -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 9:36 a.m.
                      • two reasons--response was directed to Koca
                        Seth -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 3:26 p.m.
                  • two reasons
                    AdamStocks -- Monday, 21 April 2014, at 5:10 a.m.
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      Stick -- Sunday, 20 April 2014, at 7:26 p.m.
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    Art Grater -- Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 7:53 a.m.