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by Gulchen
14 October 2026, 20:16
Forum: Backgammon
Topic: New version of Backgammon
Replies: 13
Views: 408

Re: New version of Backgammon

I don't play backgammon, so maybe this was already implemented, but I'm bringing attention back to ... Let us assume a match to 7 and player A leads 5-1. If during the next game player B doubles and A accepts then the doubling cube moves from the middle to player A's side. But it is a dead cube for ...
by Gulchen
02 May 2026, 22:40
Forum: Backgammon
Topic: Forfeit ?
Replies: 7
Views: 388

Re: Forfeit ?

Indeed, although this might have been changed in the past almost-2-years, my understanding was that Hex was only game on BGA
whose implementation on BGA always allows resigning: ​ https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=180510
by Gulchen
17 April 2026, 07:13
Forum: Discussions
Topic: Especially good player takes over arena for a particular game
Replies: 18
Views: 689

Re: Especially good player takes over arena for a particular game

For ​ ​ ​ "the players profile has a non English language listed" ​ , ​ ​ ​ is this the extremely good player or the one other player? If it's the one other player - so, there's no indication that the extremely good player doesn't speak English - then you could try asking for handicap game...
by Gulchen
14 April 2026, 19:12
Forum: Space Base
Topic: Reroll dice mechanics
Replies: 15
Views: 1007

Re: Reroll dice mechanics

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From the ​ Game log ​ for ​ https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=836307410 , ​ I see that Space Base apparently does have a

specific ​ reroll ​ action. ​ ​ ​ Can this be used to reroll two at once, or are you referring to two uses with only a which-to-keep choice in between?
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by Gulchen
14 April 2026, 06:15
Forum: Space Base
Topic: Reroll dice mechanics
Replies: 15
Views: 1007

Re: Reroll dice mechanics

@ zephyrnx ​ : I have looked through 3 of your game logs and part of one of your replays , ​ and I don't see any reroll actions. If you're not referring to some separate action, then do you count player1 rolls w and x. player2 rolls y and z. as three rerolls or just two? ​ (just w to x and y to z, o...
by Gulchen
30 March 2026, 02:59
Forum: Catan
Topic: Catan Karma penalties problem
Replies: 7
Views: 418

Re: Catan Karma penalties problem

"If the robber is put on the desert this is illegal since the game decided it, not the player itself." I have arguments regarding the above quote, but the main obstacle for Catan is that the other players might have settled adjacent to the desert: ​ One would have to make non-obvious choic...
by Gulchen
07 March 2026, 05:54
Forum: Catan
Topic: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take
Replies: 77
Views: 3503

Re: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take

Was there at least one battle before the last turn?
by Gulchen
27 February 2026, 20:54
Forum: Catan
Topic: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take
Replies: 77
Views: 3503

Re: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take

for 52 d10 rolls: number of occurrences triples out of 100000 0 63050 1 26808 2 7814 3 1856 4 385 5 72 6 13 7 2 >= 8 0 Just like my above post, these are from applying the Largest Remainder Method to the exact probabilities, rather than from Monte Carlo. ​ The Julia code is below. julia> "right...
by Gulchen
27 February 2026, 19:16
Forum: Catan
Topic: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take
Replies: 77
Views: 3503

Re: Dice generator - the non-conspiracy take

histogram entries for doubles from 52 d10 rolls: number of bin doubles height 0 46 1 263 2 730 3 1325 4 1767 5 1845 6 1572 7 1123 8 686 9 364 10 170 11 71 12 26 >= 13 12 Julia code to get those numbers: julia> before,after = zeros(BigInt,53),zeros(BigInt,53); julia> after[1] = BigInt(1) 1 julia> for...

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