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Backgammon

#1

The dice distribution playing Greedy Two Move is absurd. It's not fair. Get to work, gentlemen. It is a force that makes the game thoroughly unenjoyable.

#2

I think that's just you being unlucky - backgammon is the only luck-based game on PlayStrategy (and its variants)

#3

Yeah, it's not fair. I seem to roll good dice against the bot, the poor thing.

On a more serious note, the dice randomness functionality should be public, but I don't know the source code well enough to know where to look.

#4

Even with perfect rolls, it's easy to beat the bot, as it plays with a poor strategy, like in a game of Parchis. It's true that playing a single game without the Cube increases luck, especially at the end of the game.

However, Backgammon is not a luck game. The game is pure strategy combined with great math calculations and probabilities.

With all due respect, saying that Backgammon is a luck game is one of the biggest mistakes in the abstract world of games.

#5

Edit: That's fair enough, I don't play backgammon. I will amend my statement to say
"backgammon is the only game with an element of luck on PlayStrategy (and its variants)"

#7

Intersting article.

That is the reason why the important tournaments are played in longer matches.

The longer the match the less the luck.

In a long match the better player will always be the favorite.

#9

Bottom line: are the dice rolls generated before the game and then "distributed"? Or, are the rolls generated *each*"roll?

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