Backgammon Online

20-Feb-2010
08:22 PDT

this is a stupid game..is not fair..neaither in real life you don't have the chance to give dies like in this game..it sucks

20-Feb-2010
13:26 PDT

This post was deleted by dragonia on 20-Feb-2010, 13:27 PDT

20-Feb-2010
13:27 PDT

Hi A_D_Y_22,

Are you talking about a specific game or backgammon in general or the game on this site? If a specific game it'll help if you copy the game here so we can take a look  

22-Feb-2010
03:22 PDT

i want to know who decide the dices..because is not random..random can't be in one direction

22-Feb-2010
10:08 PDT

Please refer to FAQ #27, as well as other posts in the forums regarding this subject.

22-Feb-2010
12:41 PDT

It speaks of an average number of moves per game of 39. That seems a little high. I think my games are between 25 and 30, My first 20 games have an average of 26.4. Probability of 3 sixes in a row would be much lower.

23-Feb-2010
00:04 PDT

I just rolled 3 double sixes in a row!!!

http://zooescape.com/backgammon.pl?v=200&gid=106030

I'm going out to buy a lotto ticket.

23-Feb-2010
01:06 PDT

I was worried that was in our game :}

23-Feb-2010
10:57 PDT

When that FAQ was written in August 2009, the average was 39 turns/rolls per game. Now the average is 49.88 since there are now 95,291 games that have ended (not including canceled games or short games). The total number of times the dice have been rolled in those games is 4,753,284. So that means that any three sets of doubles should have occurred 22,005 times on this site, and 101 of those would be three sets of double sixes.

A player will not likely see certain sequences of dice in 'real life', assuming 'real life' means playing on a board with another person because they will not come close to the 'volume' of dice rolls that one sees while playing against other players on a website. If a player has 20 active games and takes 5 turns per day, they will see 200 rolls of the dice in one day (remember that each 'round' has two rolls -- one for each player). If the probability of any three doubles in a row is 1 in 216, how often would that player see three sets of doubles?

FAQ #27 has been updated with these current statistics.

23-Feb-2010
13:20 PDT

Excellent. Thank you.