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6 Sep 2024 03:14:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Interesting dice problem  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 May 2009 18:23:48
Message: <4a0c99f4$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Too busy at the moment to try to deveop the idea further, but if it's 
>> acceptable to just throw fingers (i.e., from 0 to 5 fingers), there's your 
>> 1d6 in one throw right there.
> 
>   The problem with only one person doing it is that the roll is not fair:
> If the person "doing the roll" has something to gain from a certain result,
> he will obviously be biased and deliberately roll the number he wants.

I had meant to imply that the restrictions of the first paragraph apply to 
the second paragraph. So each of two people throw out zero to five fingers, 
you add them and take the result mod 6, to get another 0 to 5.  The RPS 
would just assign 0,1,2 to the three shapes and ignore who "won" the toss.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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