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A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)

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76 points Fraterkes | 1 comments | 05 Dec 25 19:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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andy99 ◴[07 Dec 25 23:57 UTC] No.46186704[source]▶
You could just play rock paper scissors three times and use the results as bits for d6? Maybe dropping 111 and alternating who is 1?

Edit, I realize you’d have to drop 111 and 000 to get 6, not sure what I had in mind in the original, either way it balances. It’s also nice because I don’t think you can intentionally lose rock paper scissors.

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brokencode ◴[08 Dec 25 03:23 UTC] No.46187936[source]▶
There actually are techniques to win (and presumably lose) rock paper scissors more frequently than random due to psychological factors that make player choices somewhat predictable.
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1. IAmBroom ◴[08 Dec 25 16:10 UTC] No.46194006[source]▶
Which emphasizes the innate problem in using biased inputs (human choice) to generate unbiased outputs.

It is virtually impossible.