That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge.
It should come with some bizarre consequence, too. If it were the Oregon Trail game, there should be a tiny chance that the player finds an ancient artifact that glows and hums when touched. An alien ship swoops in and abducts the party, forcing them to join the crew. From there on, it’s a space pirate game with zero explanation why and no references in the product literature. Also, customer service pretends not to know about it, if contacted.
Even not considering that, they still aren’t 50-50 odds. The stamped printing on both sides throws off the balance just enough to bias one side over the other.
Or you know, a coin.
This was my thought.
Mfers be out here debating whether the thing depicted is actually a “two sided” dice, meanwhile coins just be chillin over there getting ignored.
Y’all be trippin.
Too expensive.
Don’t be ridiculous, obviously you roll a d20, subtract one, and the count how many digits the result has
Roll a d100, if it is odd 1, 2 if even
I like how you’d be rolling two d10’s, and then completely ignoring one of them.
It keeps the statisticians happy
Coins are just really unbalanced three-sided dice.
aka really short cylinders
That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge.
Then told us to ignore that possibility.
It should come with some bizarre consequence, too. If it were the Oregon Trail game, there should be a tiny chance that the player finds an ancient artifact that glows and hums when touched. An alien ship swoops in and abducts the party, forcing them to join the crew. From there on, it’s a space pirate game with zero explanation why and no references in the product literature. Also, customer service pretends not to know about it, if contacted.
Even not considering that, they still aren’t 50-50 odds. The stamped printing on both sides throws off the balance just enough to bias one side over the other.
Not if it’s a thnickel.
Thanks, I hate it.
https://youtu.be/vAA-A9t7TD0
Rare coin flip: Success for every roll over the next hour of gameplay.
The odds of a US nickel landing on its edge is about 1 in 6000. If there are any other country’s coins thicker the odds would probably get better.
A standard US nickel, yes.
I prefer better odds than that…
Thick Nickels
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Thnickles
Whatever you call them, people will respect you more when you use them.
Well, but it also has to stay on its edge, and that’s a lot less likely…
The old UK £1 was similar in size but twice as thick. It’s now 12-sided but not sure how that impacts the odds.
I know there’s a way to figure that out, but I have no idea where to start. So I’m going with 1 in 3000, plus or minus 42.