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Out of 250 rolls 27 were 1's. A roughly 11% chance of rolling a 1 on this die.

For those curious about the rest:

Here's the stats for all 17

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

2 of my DnD group when they found out about my little project wanted me to check their favorite D20's as well.

Those are being tested this evening and I'm excited to see the results.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Any tumbled die like this (identifiable by the polished surfaces and the smooth edges) gets deformed in the tumbling process. The solution is one of three things:

  1. Accept this as your lot in life
  2. Look for precision dice
  3. Buy enough tumbled dice that you're grabbing a random die that is deformed differently from all the other deformed dice every time from a pool at the center of the table
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you hand rolling in a tray? Dice tower?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dice tower

Specifically this one

It's got a spiral staircase from top to bottom for the dice to bounce around

[–] beirut_bootleg 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How about data entry? Paper, text file, or camera and image recog?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I looked at the results of each roll and then entered it directly into a spreadsheet

The stat cards are generated straight from the data

Using some formulas in the spreadsheet I tell it to see which numbers come up in a range of cells, then count each instance of the numbers, then order the results in a table from most common to least common.

The averages are generated in a similar way. Basically I tell the spreadsheet to add the number of cells that have data in them in a specific range together, then have it divide by the number of faces on the die (the magic number here bugs me but I'll let it slide for now), and then it puts the result into a cell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

NGL, I low-key dig how nerdy you are about your dice. People being stupid happy about their hobbies brings me a hint of joy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Put that traitor in the microwave ... Baked Potato.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to see a cool (as cool as statistics can be) experiment about this check this out

http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I'm unable to open the link, it seems broken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Huh weird. Maybe because it is not https?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The site does not work with https but your link actually links to https even though visually it dies not, I guess.

http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389

Also maybe the browsers are trying https first anyway and because the server does respond ,(but wrongly) it ignores/does no try the non-s.

Edit: weird, why is ff forcing the s even though it's actually not there in the link.

To acces the site you havs to open the link, then edit the url and delete the s in https://

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe you enabled https only mode, or maybe it is even enabled by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that is odd. I tried to edit the comment and it shows http.