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There's a similar urban legend about craps. That with enough practice, you can get good enough at throwing the dice at the exact right place to get, again, not
by zamnos 4y ago
There's a similar urban legend about craps. That with enough practice, you can get good enough at throwing the dice at the exact right place to get, again, not a visible advantage, but a just ever so slightly higher statistical advantage. Sounds impossible, but looking at the level of skill a world class athlete has encourages me to believe in this urban legend.
- bombcar 4y agoLike many urban legends, there's probably some truth - https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn3j44/dice-control-dominic-the-dice-dominator-loriggio-craps https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn3j44/dice-control-dominic-... digs into it. Card counting is well known and casinos encourage it, because MOST people can't do it well enough, and they shuffle often enough.
- spaceguillotine 4y agothis is why the dice have to hit the back wall and bounce back, to help edge it back in the house's favor with skilled throws. House always finds a way to get back their advantage but once you figure something out, you get cut off.
- nestorD 4y agoThere are trick shot with dices that will get you what you want. I have seen retired cheaters (real ones, not magicians pretending to be ones) use them and consistently get the number they want (requirement to bounce on surfaces make things harder but not impossible).
- j0hnyl 4y agoit's not about getting the number you want, it's about not getting just two numbers.