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April 06, 2007
What is the most random number between 1 and 20?
I've always quite disliked the scheme for choosing a starting player by asking someone to name a number between 1 and N where N is the number of players. When I do it, I at least do between like 1 and 100 and take the mod N result which I expect is a bit more fair. Here's a simple poll result agreeing with me about the inaccuracy of this method.
Things like the Spin-4-It some use I don't like much better since it is quite rare that every person has an equal percentage of the 360 degree arc.
Obviously, all this is pretty unimportant but if you are trying to randomize something, seems strange to use something not even close to random.
Posted by aarondf at April 6, 2007 01:45 PM
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