The ban game, v15

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Eagle is banned for not knowing what STC means.

[Mao]

Corgatha is banned for looking down on Eagle.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Mowser is banned for his terrible case of Redeye

[Ren Gaulen]

Corgi is banned for being the last in line.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Ren Gaulen is banned for his poor eyesight and failing to notice that it was *he* who was last in line.

[Ren Gaulen]

Well played, Corgi, but you're too slow. Now I am the one standing behind you! BAN-O-KEN!!

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Hence, Ren Gaulen, standing behind me, is the last in line and therefore banned.

[Noone]

Corgatha Taldorthar is banned to prevent him and Ren Gaulen from creating a paradox.

[Cogidubnus]

Corgatha is banned for not preventing them from creating a taradox, however.

[Jairus]

Cogi is banned because I just tesseracted. What should I do now?

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Jairus is banned by the mighty splonge.

[e_voyager]

Corgatha is banned for my STC time is poor at best.(stc)

[Slowtini]

e_voyager is banned in a sad attempt at humor.

[e_voyager]

Slowtini is banned and the bannings shall continues until morals improves.

[Mao]

e_voyager is banned due to a relative set of morals.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Mowser is banned for bringing Einstein's morals into it.

[Cogidubnus]

llearch is banned for playing dice with the universe. And also cheating.

[Mao]

Cogi is banned for thinking that either of those are bannable offenses.

[Cogidubnus]

Mowser is banned randomly, before being sucked into a wormhole and ejected into an alternate dimension where the oceans are comprised of french onion dip.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Cogidubnus is banned because I've already rolled out all the ones.

[Ren Gaulen]

L is banned because I rolled twenty. Three times in a row. FALCON PUNCH!!!

[Jairus]

Ren is banned because I want to ban Boxy. Boxy is banned because you can't roll out the ones: the odds are still 1 in 20 that you'll roll a one next time you roll, no matter how many times you've rolled ones before hand.

[Ren Gaulen]

Jay is banned by a shockwave from the Falcon Punch I threw at Boxy.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Ren Gaulen is banned because I'm not feeling well and want someone to kick.

[VSMIT]

Corthaga is banned for being here instead of getting better.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

VSMIT is banned because I love his avatar.


Jubblies, it's not. Any random die will roll a 1 one time in 20. Any one die will roll two 1s in a row, one time in 400 (20x20). Any die will roll three 1s in a row, one time in 8000 (20x20x20).

If you get a large enough stack of dice, roll them all one at a time, and select all the ones that have rolled 1. Then re-roll all those, select all the ones that have rolled 1 again. Re-roll just those, and select all the ones that have re-rolled 1s. At that point, you have a set of dice that have rolled three 1s in a row, and have a 1 in 160,000 chance of rolling a 1 with any of them.

If you have a really really large number of dice, and an awful lot of spare time, you can go for one more, and make it a 1 in 32 million chance of rolling a 1, but that might be going a bit far. ;-]

Plus, all this is statistical, so it doesn't matter who rolls them.

Neat, huh?

(and we can tell who reads the annotations in Darths and Droids...)

[Jairus]

Boxy is banned because while those are the odds of that precise sequence happening (ie, 1-in-20 x 1-in-20 x 1-in-20 x 1-in-20), the fact is that the odds of a 20-sided die rolling a 1 is still 1-in-20. Just like how if you flip a coin 19 times and it lands heads-up every time, the odds are still 50-50 that it'll land heads up the 20th time.

And because he reads Darths and Droids.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Jairus is banned because while the odds are 50-50 for any _one_ coin toss, the probability is not the same thing, and when you start running multiple coin tosses - or die rolls - the probability changes.

Which is why you _can_ roll the ones out. Provided those dice don't roll again until you're ready.

[Ren Gaulen]

L is banned because I, too, use loaded dice for my saving throws.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Ren Gaulen is banned for needing loaded dice. True cheaters know how to feel for pips or ridges as they hold the die and throw so that the proper face lands upright!