Same number rolled twice

[randusnuder]

Anyone else notice that on the 8-sided die rolls, you tend to roll the same number for the first and second roll?

May just be confirmation bias, but it really seems to happen a lot across my games.

[Agent42]

I have only done those actions a couple of times, but it did seem like I got the same number twice in a row a lot more frequently than it should have happened.

[Phoxtrot]

not for me

[JimmyPop]

I have seen the behavior way too frequently. Often all 3 rolls are the same. The way I avoid it now is to wait 3 to 5 seconds between rerolls. Overall, in my experience in this game, I feel that there is something wrong with the roll algorithm.

[Rooster6975]

It's completely random. The same code is used across games and apps when random numbers are required. People perceive patterns in small samples, but expanded over a very large sample, the rolls even out. I built and administer a large application at my company that has a few random number generators and I always get these types of complaints. However, I can prove that over a year, the numbers are indeed random and evenly distributed.

It's the same thing as playing black/red in Vegas. People think that just because black came up 17 times in a row that red has a higher probability of coming up next, but in reality, the odds are exactly the same every single time. Over time, they come up the same number of times.