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A 1/512 occurence is not rare. With 16000 games played a day, it should happens around 30 times a day. One of them was to you. It's not fun, but it's nothing extraordinary. I’d say 1/5 of 1% is rare, lol. It may happen regularly, not 30 times, but about 3-4 times a day. Don’t use 16000 games but 17...

It did get up to 9 in a row, so 1/512 It’s 1/256. The idea that the probabilities would be secretly weighted to favour one group of players No, it’s 1 out of 512. It’s 1/256 to get first OR second player 9 times in a row. You get the first free, then 8 more 50% probabilities. If at start, you decla...

GTSchemer wrote: ↑01 January 2025, 20:41 I would barely blink at a 1/128 chance cropping up.

It did get up to 9 in a row, so 1/512

Is getting first player truly random or do premium account holders get an advantage? I know anecdotal but I just played 7 straight games of 2 player Azul without getting first player to open the game. Should be a 1/128 occurrence. Could be chance but starting to feel off.

Backgammon should be a fast paced game. Every time I play, it seems like I make my move in 10 seconds at most and am waiting 20 to 30 seconds for my opponent to move. Don’t know if they’re thinking or server lag, but the game seems unplayable. What time settings do most of you use?

I don’t consider myself stupid, but the advanced settings for single game have me thoroughly confused. I am getting “settings invalid” :shock: for having the following for fast scoring. “I’m ok with” enabled and “I never want to play with” disabled. The two toggles seem overly complicated. What am I...

I’m not sure, where would I see this? It looks like only options I have are for fast scoring, number of players and allow variants?

Hi , Don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or if I have unrealistic expectations s a non premium player. When I try to get on a game of Azul, it typically takes 5-10 minutes to get a table despite it saying match should take a few seconds. Also, when “tables waiting for players” pop up, it always ...