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Yes re cups with baffle boxes..YES and YES again

Posted By: Joe Russell
Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2009, at 11:22 a.m.

In Response To: Yes re cups with baffle boxes..YES and YES again (Chuck Bower)

Isn't this just a nice way of saying "your OPPONENT suspects you of cheating?"

No, there are many reasons one would prefer a baffle-box and cups:

1. It is actually faster since you don't have to shake as much and there are very few cocked rolls and almost no rolls off the board;

2. If facilitates randomness;

3. There is little difference in 'aesthtetics' in shakng your dice once or twice and rolling into a baffle-box and having the dice delivered to the board a second later or shaking for an extra second or two and deliveing the dice to the board yourself;

4. Some people may prefer to shake less for physical reasons. They may have physical ailments that are exacerbated by excessive shaking. I have a partially-torn rotator cuff. My shoulder hurts at the end of a weekend of playing backgammon;

5. It makes you feel very comfortable playing someone you don't know, even if you have no reason to suspect they may be a cheater. It gives you peace of mind;

6. There is a built-in bias in clocked matches against the player that must roll on the side of the bear-off, since he will end up with more cocked rolls and waste more time re-rolling, a baffle-box eliminates this bias.

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