EdgarVerona
2007-02-11, 02:54 PM
Okay, this is a really silly question... but are the dice that came with the game loaded or anything?
The first time we played (was a while ago), no one could roll higher than a 4. We must've rolled both the red and the blue dice 30-40 times, and never got higher than that... except once, someone rolled an 8. I remember that it only happened once because the whole table erupted into cheers as if the roller had just won the lottery. =) It was actually kind of funny and amusing, but after an hour or so of it, it started to get frustrating.
I went over to my handy Sack-o-Dice and pulled out a few D12 that I had from purchased dice, and immediately the dice rolls began to become more sane and evenly distributed from a statistical perspective.
Was it insane statistical fluke, or is there a chance that some of the dice produced for the game were malformed/in some way loaded? If so, was it intentional? No big deal (I'm using my own dice now), but I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this and/or if it was an intentional loading of the dice to make the game more difficult. =)
The first time we played (was a while ago), no one could roll higher than a 4. We must've rolled both the red and the blue dice 30-40 times, and never got higher than that... except once, someone rolled an 8. I remember that it only happened once because the whole table erupted into cheers as if the roller had just won the lottery. =) It was actually kind of funny and amusing, but after an hour or so of it, it started to get frustrating.
I went over to my handy Sack-o-Dice and pulled out a few D12 that I had from purchased dice, and immediately the dice rolls began to become more sane and evenly distributed from a statistical perspective.
Was it insane statistical fluke, or is there a chance that some of the dice produced for the game were malformed/in some way loaded? If so, was it intentional? No big deal (I'm using my own dice now), but I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this and/or if it was an intentional loading of the dice to make the game more difficult. =)