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Limit On Doubles

Posted By: Stein Kulseth
Date: Wednesday, 13 April 2011, at 7:36 a.m.

In Response To: Limit On Doubles (Seth)

Why bother with allowing any number of doubles at all then?

Just try it out without doubles counting double at all - you roll 33 you move 3 twice. Less variance, less left to chance. And then at least the rule change is clear, communicatable, implementable, etc, etc, I would not expect it to be in any way popular, though...

Aside note, I don't subscribe to the notion that reducing the amount of doubles necessarily makes a game of more skill, and definitely not that it clearly does so. In a relative sense, yes, as less is left to chance, but it also reduces the number of things you have to consider when you make your play decisions. Imagine a variant where you reduce variance even more by saying that every roll is 52. Now, nothing is left to chance, and the game becomes one of pure skill. However, I think it would be much easier to analyse, and thus become a game of less skill, not more (in addition to becoming truly boring, but that was not the point...)

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