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Originally Posted by MarkD
Ahh... Yes, i got it to work now. That was weird. I was not expecting to have to download something. Why are there bogus dice rooms? That's crazy.
It's an interesting story. When SHG first opened, their dice roll algorithm was (unintentionally) flawed, resulting in significantly fewer doubles - about half the expectation. Eventually a couple of clever users figured this out, and demonstrated it statistically beyond a doubt. To their credit, SHG promptly accepted this and implemented a corrected algorithm which has seemed to work properly ever since.
However, some social players had gotten used to the bogus dice with fewer doubles. They felt that the "new" dice were too wild and didn't like all the extra doubles. So they threatened to leave the site in mass unless they got to keep their phony dice. SHG decided to accommodate them, marking each room with either bogus (red) or true (yellow) dice. So there you are.
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