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About Time...and rolling

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Sunday, 2 August 2015, at 1:40 p.m.

In Response To: About Time...and rolling (phil simborg)

Agreed that baffle boxes eliminate many problems. But an even better solution is electronic dice:

Advantages of electronic dice

  1. No cocked dice
  2. No dice dropped on the floor
  3. Dice don't get in the way of checker movement.
  4. No tailgating -- the dice won't let you roll until the other side is finished.
  5. No accidentally moved dice or disagreements about what a previous roll was.
  6. Fairer to players with poor dexterity.
  7. Simpler mechanics. (You could integrate the dice with a clock so that buttons to "Double", "Roll", and "Pick Up" also start and stop the clock.)
  8. The biggest advantage of all: Speed. Electronic dice would cut at least 4 seconds off of each roll ... every roll of the game, every game of the match.

Disadvantages of electronic dice

  1. It's an additional piece of equipment you have to buy and bring along to tournaments.
  2. Some people would miss the tactile and aural sensory enjoyment of playing with real dice.
  3. Suspicions of nonrandomness. Physical dice are more transparent than electronic dice -- you can see the little cubes bouncing and rolling around. With electronic dice, it's just a black box. Some people simply won't believe the results are random.

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