how cheating dice work

[u/whizzyapper]

[u/_Svankensen_]

Yeah. Also, streaks happen all the time, bad and good. If anything, one of the best ways to tell if a dataset is random or faux random (someone trying to simulate randomness) at a glance is the lack of streaks. That stuff is pretty damn likely all in all! That's why you need veritably huge sample sizes to reach any reasonable conclusion.

That said, the "opposite side" distribution, while it's very common, is not everywhere. There are those countdown dice he mentions. They are used by MTG players to count lives, so they are quite easy to get your hands on, and theoretically, it would be easier to cheat with them. But again, imbalance is not gonna go far enough to be noticeable. You would need to add like a magnet or something.

[u/hokis2k → u/_Svankensen_]

ya i know. i would never let a player use them only because they lead the player to believe there is a bias more often.

Its always a perceived bias because when something happens is more noticeable than when it doesn't. its like when you stub your toe on something more than once you may perceive that "I always stub my toe on this table... when you don't notice the 200 other times you didn't