Kids wanted to play snakes and ladders in the car but had no d6. Finn's solution: play 6 rounds of rock-paper-scissors, use the number of times he wins as his roll. I loved this so much I didn't even give him a hard time for the non-uniform distribution and the off-by-one support
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Pretty sure it is. Surely you didn't think I’d try to foist some incorrect but efficient solution off on your kid!
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I'd never accuse a lisper of sacrificing anything else in the name of efficiency.
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We don’t have to. We have compiler macros.
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Or use a game of odds and evens for the most significant digit. Uniform in bounded time.
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Oh! Better yet! Each kids shoots 0 to 5 fingers at random. Die roll is 1 + (sum of hands % 6). Boom. Uniform and works for any number of kids.
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I’ll be you $100 it won’t be uniform especially for some ages but even for adults. But sure, probably uniform enough for that use case. Just don’t make crypto with it. :)
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It just becomes part of the game, though. I can exploit your non-uniformity.
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Did... did this just make snakes and ladders a game of skill? Does this ultimately end with an AI tournament?
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