Stastics don’t lie...

I am often skeptical of claims that games of chance are “rigged” and have written my own games to check their validity (including casino blackjack and video poker) and I can say that the randomness of the dice rolls in this game are suspect.

I analyzed the frequency of doubles and their values both within any given game and within a match and what I termed “miracle rolls”, those rolls where only specific values one either die or, more miraculously, two specific values on both dice are to a players advantage.

It appears that the computer’s strategic skill is the same for all levels and that the dice rolls are what is used to create the appearance of varying skill. In “easy” mode the dice rolls tend to favor the human, in “medium” mode the dice rolls are stastically equal between computer and human, and in “hard” mode the dice rolls favor the computer. The computer’s low strategic skill makes the easy and medium levels quite easy to beat but the advantage to the computer on the hard level more than makes up for the low strategic skill any makes any individual game extremely difficult to beat even when the computer makes obviously poor stratgic decisions.

Without seeing the code used to generate the dice values this, of course, can not be definitively confirmed but is accurate based on anaylizing several dozen individual games and matches. It is a graphically nice game but the game play coding falls short.

maestro7518 about Backgammon