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What goal? At what cost?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Friday, 28 August 2009, at 5:22 p.m.

In Response To: Baffle Boxes (neilkaz)

Reviewing the issues, I believe these are the goals. Not everyone (in fact safe to say 'no one') puts the same emphasis on each:

1) ensure that intended random rolls with fair dice are random.

2) ensure that intended NON-random rolls with fair dice are random.

3) ensure that intened NON-random rolls with unfair dice will not be thrown.

So, what are we willing to "pay"?

A) Give up the tactile/aesthetic/"control" feature of using real (cubic) dice (as opposed to electronically generated dice)?

B) resort to a new type of shaking and rolling device which can be opened (to allow changing of dice)?

C) resort to a new type of shaking and rolling device which cannot be opened (without permanently, observably altering the device)?

D) (in the more common usage of the word 'pay') how many $/Euros is one willing to fork over for A, B, C?

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