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I understand it's important to shake your dice...

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Monday, 15 August 2016, at 2:24 a.m.

In Response To: I understand it's important to shake your dice... (Havard Raddum)

The rules that generally prevail on the use of cups are indeed needlessly vague and open to interpretation. Like clocks with 'reasonable' playing speed, baffle boxes virtually eliminate the vagueness and inconsistencies that can apply in generating a 'random' roll. They even help to equalise the time spent generating that roll, and neutralise any time disadvantage in producing cocked dice for the player rolling - in the 'normal' way - into the home boards. (The latest EUBGF and UKBGF Rules help here anyway, with the potential regaining of the delay setting.) Not to mention practically removing the ambiguities that can occur around simultaneous rolls.

It would still be better if the uber baffle box you postulate - that may well indeed already exist - were used with lipped cups, but without the potentially nebulous shaking requirement. The cup practically eliminates the potential to create doubt in the mind of the opponent of a player who is trying to bypass the chaos generated within the box by feeding selectively positioned dice, by hand, as far as possible into the box. Making the default setting that - unless both players agree - lipped cups are still used with the box, but without the legal requirement to shake, should help to achieve the most consistently secure, and unambiguous random rolls. There need be no urgency to do away with cups, but doing away with the legal need for the shaking element IS desirable.

I ask TD's everywhere to encourage the removal of the irrational negativity that can exist in the minds of some players with respect to baffle boxes. They do NOT mean 'players are cheating' any more than using lipped cups does, but are instead merely more secure and efficient vessels to create the transparently level playing field that all deserve. In this respect, a greater willingness to enforce a box on a recalcitrant player will steer such players in the right direction. Also, applying Baffle Box Neutral - you roll for the choice (using cups into the box for this roll) and, better still Preference - especially in the latter stages of an event - will help to create a cleaner, more open environment. There are baffle box proponents who would not enforce one on a player who treated the rules - and their opponent therefore - with the respect they deserve.

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