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Thanks for your thoughts, and apologies for posting in the wrong place. I guess it’s a function of the thousands of games played on the site, but in any given game my experience of playing is much more likely to be “spoiled” by excessive doubles than when I play in person with actual dice. It makes ...

I will support the claim of excessive double sixes immediately after being taken out with a first blot in the game. It happens to me in many games. I don’t have stats for it, but really think it happens in many more games than seems realistically random.

Just completed two games of backgammon in which between the two of us there were more than 20 doubles, including one run of 6 doubles rolls in a row. This happens often in playing, and I’ve conversed with many players as we roll that doubles seem to happen far more often than is statistically likely...