BGA Rick Roll - April Fool

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JimBut wrote: 02 April 2026, 18:24
FrankJones wrote: 02 April 2026, 17:16 Is it really all that difficult to program a RNG? I'm an amateur with limited coding knowledge, but I've been able to do this successfully. I doubt that professionals on a major website would mess up and program a faulty RNG.
You don't even need to write one yourself, almost all languages come with an option for generating random numbers. BGA uses random_int from PHP which is suitable for encryption so is certainly good enough for Cant stop.
My apologies. Yes, that's what I meant. I remember using random_int in some of my Java programs. (Or whatever the Java version of Random_int is called. (I'm a bit rusty.)
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Considering dice rolls are the biggest hindrance to enjoying Backgammon, choosing to mock that as an April Fool's post won't gain any support. I barely renewed this year, and just tried Backgammon after not playing for a year. The same untimely, unreal doubles are still showing up way too often. Why not fix the issue instead of choosing to basically piss on your membership's feedback.
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Monkeying with the dice is nice but pales in comparison with what I requested from the Poker sites back when online poker was in its heyday.

I said, "You can keep your bonuses and this way it won't be any cost to you. Just arrange it so that I'll be deal AA every hand and you'll have a content customer on your hands."
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MattTheHoser wrote: 02 April 2026, 22:56 Considering dice rolls are the biggest hindrance to enjoying Backgammon, choosing to mock that as an April Fool's post won't gain any support. I barely renewed this year, and just tried Backgammon after not playing for a year. The same untimely, unreal doubles are still showing up way too often. Why not fix the issue instead of choosing to basically piss on your membership's feedback.
Is there any evidence to support this?
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Very glad this is a joke.
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MattTheHoser wrote: 02 April 2026, 22:56 Considering dice rolls are the biggest hindrance to enjoying Backgammon, choosing to mock that as an April Fool's post won't gain any support. I barely renewed this year, and just tried Backgammon after not playing for a year. The same untimely, unreal doubles are still showing up way too often. Why not fix the issue instead of choosing to basically piss on your membership's feedback.
Lots of members have seen the "BGA dice are rigged" threads. They know it's nonsense, and as a result, they're commonly disrespected threads. It's the perfect target to make fun of. And it shows, lots of people enjoying this one. :D "BGA dice are rigged" isn't a serious topic, it's a meme for people to make fun of.
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MattTheHoser wrote: 02 April 2026, 22:56 The same untimely, unreal doubles are still showing up way too often.
Go here! https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20708
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You're masters at jokes. Your cheaters take first place in the arena(Bang, Poker dice) and you can't do anything about it.
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I'm missing an option to pay with gift points for rerolls ;-)
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dschingis27 wrote: 03 April 2026, 07:17
MattTheHoser wrote: 02 April 2026, 22:56 The same untimely, unreal doubles are still showing up way too often.
Go here! https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20708
Also see this thread where the claim that 10+ doubles never happens in real life backgammon was easily refuted with logs from a physical backgammon tournament.
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