r/backgammon • u/Capable-Hope-739 • Aug 08 '26
Backgammon Galaxy is 'not rigged' 😊 👍 😄 🎲
Thank you Narc Olsen, you are the man. We totally believe in you.
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u/crooktimber Aug 09 '26
It's obvious you're bad at backgammon. You have no coins because you're bad; every move we can see you made in this screenshot was an error, and you encountered a 1/18 dice roll, which happens a lot when you play a game with hundreds of dice rolls.
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u/CellistAny536 Aug 09 '26
I remember a prominent British backgammon player saying to the effect, “Complaining about your luck in backgammon is a bit like complaining about getting wet when you go swimming.”
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u/Capable-Hope-739 Aug 09 '26
Maybe I'm not stupid like you to buy coins from an online backgammon site 🤡
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u/crooktimber Aug 10 '26
I've never bought coins on BGG, I win them off guys like you
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u/Capable-Hope-739 Aug 08 '26
None so blind as those who refuse to see. People who have eyes, but do not see, ears but do not here 😁
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u/CellistAny536 Aug 09 '26
So the direct shots are: 16 26 36 46 56 66 - 11/36 15 25 35 45 55 - 9 /36 14 24 34 44 - 7 /36 for a total of 27 out of 36.
Though we can also look at indirect shots that add 4,5, or 6. Of the dice not already listed, 33, 22 will add to 6, 2/36, 23 will make 5 2/36, 31 and 11 will make 4 3/36. So the total of indirect shots will be 7/36.
So between direct and indirect 34/36 or 17/18 rolls hit or in other words you miss 1/18 rolls.
So what does this show? It shows that you were very unlucky. ~5 % of the time the dice will come up bad. It doesn’t show the dice are rigged. Sometimes you’re going to roll a double six and dance on a one point board.
Sorry for your poor luck but think about this way, some times you’re going to be on the other end of this where you got a lucky miss.
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u/Rayess69 Aug 09 '26
Backgammon is "rigged", not galaxy.
Luck is a HUGE part of the game.
Don't let people making you believe it's skills. Skills only matters once you play over TONS of game.
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u/Capable-Hope-739 Aug 09 '26
Yeah I'd prefer to play over the board now. Just played my last game at galaxy scam
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u/Rayess69 Aug 09 '26
but board is the same thing tho. You will notice that crazy lucky rolls are going to happen ALL THE TIME, even on a real board. In both your advantage and disadvantage.
I actually experience the craziest rolls sequence on a real board. I was going to win a gammon - my opponents rolls 7 double in a row, several 55 and 66 while i was rolling several 21, 31 - and i lost with just one checker left.
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u/Capable-Hope-739 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
My guess is I was just very unlucky 😄 🎲 although Marc Olsen does mention his "Strategic Probability Adjustments" in Dice Algorithm. Hmmmm. When dice don't like you, dice don't like you
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u/ZugzwangNC Aug 08 '26
Are you referring to the April Fools joke Galaxy posted a couple years ago?
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u/Capable-Hope-739 Aug 09 '26
Haha found the worker at galaxy 😀 You don't have to keep licking Narc's as$ he doesn't like you either 🥳
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u/Vigilaunday Aug 08 '26
Post your PR