Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   This gave me an idea for a small thinking problem:
> > 
> > - How should two people play rock-paper-scissors in such way that it's
> > completely equivalent to rolling a 1d6? Or is it theoretically even
> > possible?

> Both people show a number of fingers between 0 and N-1, if we're both 
> showing the same number I win, otherwise you win.  Then the chance of me 
> winning assuming best play is 1/N.  You can easily tweak this to get any 
> rational number.

  But the idea is to get a random number between 1 and 6.

> > - How should they play to get the equivalent of throwing multiple dice?
> > For example, the equivalent of rolling 2d6? How about 3d6 or 4d6? How
> > about even more complicated situations, such as 2d20 or 3d20?

> If you use toes as well as fingers, then sure.

  Note that rolling a 2d6 is *not* the same as rolling a 1d12 (or, more
precisely, 1d11+1).

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                                                          - Warp

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