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Meyer Dice Tube VIDEO, Randomness & Cheating
Posted By: phil simborg In Response To: Meyer Dice Tube VIDEO, Randomness & Cheating (Brett Meyer)
Date: Friday, 17 December 2010, at 3:02 a.m.
"If people don't want to do something, any excuse will do."
I believe people who come up with objections to the dice tube, or baffle boxes, are doing so mostly because they just don't like using those newfangled gadgets...they don't like change and they are comfortable doing what they are used to doing.
Once you decide you don't like something you can come up with all kinds of scenarios to argue that the thing you don't like doesn't really help the game, or doesn't reduce cheating, or doesn't give random rolls, or just isn't good for the game.
However, take anyone who has never played backgammon and who is a highly intelligent person, and show him the old system of rolling with a cup, and show him all the ways you can switch the dice or manipulate the rolls or pocket a die and lay it down, and show him all the potential for cocked dice and throwing the dice off the table and fast rolling; and then show him the dice tube and the baffle box and show him the reduced potential for all of those things, and that objective observer will undoubtedly select the tube or baffle box as the safer, better, faster, fairer way to generate a roll.
Now, if someone wants to argue that they don't like the tube or the baffle box because they don't like to see the game change in any way, or because they are used to the old way and they like it, I respect that argument. But all the other arguments are, in my opinion, specious and red herrings and do not hold water logically and objectively.
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