Board Game Arena

This is very stupid and it will destroy otherwise good games.

I got GOT.
I tried and tried thinking that as long as one possible set of rand is tru_rand, then sure. Let players play around with it, they’ll get tired of it (like cheat codes). And as long as a game is flagged that it uses this kind of special die, it’s up to each player.

But then. No such choice. And part of arena.

I felt myself getting… angry.

Quickly scrolled down to comments to check if I was alone in feeling this and…. Oh oooh

Well played! Well played indeed.

I think the phone shake function should be brought into some games as a 'Bad loser Option'. It would at least avoid wasting time waiting for them when they walked away without warning. They could at least tip over the board or swipe the tiles or cards off the table.

As a backgammon player who has to come up with ever more innovative replies to complaints regarding randomness when I beat my opponent, I can't wait to tell them about the changes you have planned for them! They too can delight in the Home Advantage! For too long the corruption, the yearly £36 bribes, have been allowed to flourish!

LOL fabulous!

GIJOE68 wrote: ↑02 April 2026, 01:07 but, it is already 2 April in Japan, Aus and NZ.

not at the posting time

Ceaseless wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 15:23

Nick Butler wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 13:14 If this is your definition of an April Fool's prank, rather than the real fix it ought to be, I want my subscription money back. I have had enough of your bogus dice roller on this site.

Rhinocerops271 wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 15:14 tbh I'd rather it just be random like it was a real dice throw but that's just me

It's when people make posts like this unironically that I remember why this is just a fantastic joke.

Saw the joke immediately, nailed it within the first sentence. I completely missed the title though, had to have it pointed out reading the comments.

You may think so but there is no way that the cards nor dice are truly random here. Around 15+ years ago I spent days with a developer trying to iron out a bug in some code where it would keep 'randomly' rolling the same numbers - and that was with no algorithm.

I've played enough real games down the decades to know what random looks like and nothing I see here is even close. So yes, I may have been taken in by an April Fool's joke but there's enough truth to make it believable.

Rhinocerops271 wrote: ↑02 April 2026, 12:27

Ceaseless wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 15:23

Nick Butler wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 13:14 If this is your definition of an April Fool's prank, rather than the real fix it ought to be, I want my subscription money back. I have had enough of your bogus dice roller on this site.

Rhinocerops271 wrote: ↑01 April 2026, 15:14 tbh I'd rather it just be random like it was a real dice throw but that's just me

It's when people make posts like this unironically that I remember why this is just a fantastic joke.

Saw the joke immediately, nailed it within the first sentence. I completely missed the title though, had to have it pointed out reading the comments.

You may think so but there is no way that the cards nor dice are truly random here. Around 15+ years ago I spent days with a developer trying to iron out a bug in some code where it would keep 'randomly' rolling the same numbers - and that was with no algorithm.

I've played enough real games down the decades to know what random looks like and nothing I see here is even close. So yes, I may have been taken in by an April Fool's joke but there's enough truth to make it believable.

That's what they all say. They can just magically "tell". Could I see a world where BGA made a mistake? Sure, no one is perfect. I just have found all of the players claiming the site is clearly not random so far to be incredibly untrustworthy. One moment the site is hacked for premium users, the next it's personally rigged against them. It always rolls 1s, except when it never rolls 1s, etc.

When I hear about their ability to "tell" it's random being the backbone of their case I'm already aware it's all nonsense. I've heard this song and dance before and have already seen where it goes. It would be a nice change of pace for someone making the claim to provide actual evidence instead of just vibes or their one bad moment. To be able to make a claim that isn't basically shooting your arrow and claiming whatever it hits is the target.

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.

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.