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How to shuffle lists and run a lottery using just a pen and paper
- stansmith 12y agoI used to love playing Amidar. I can still sing the tune. (The guy who is playing in the attached video is an awesome player!)
- brownbat 12y agoWe used to determine first player in games by having one person pick a number and one person pick a player (writing each secretly on paper or flashing some fingers to a third party as a commitment scheme). You'd then count that number of spots from that player. This sort of "randomness through unwitting collusion" reminded me of that. That and coin flipping protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping#Coin_flipping_in_telecommunications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping#Coin_flipping_in... (Admittedly, shuffling an entire list seems fancier, like you're getting much more work out of it.)