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@skyjake - @satch is is correct, 4 fills in a row. poor word choice.
I'm using systemrandom which is, from what I read, about as random as you can get without using the cryptographic library.
May 17 · 4 weeks ago
📡 Queen_City_Nerd · May 17 at 20:46:
I just finally checked it out. It's exactly the game I grew up playing in Highschool, only 3x1 was equal to 750 for us not 1000!
Firstly, farkle is farkle, and its rules are what they are. Having said that, I agree that there is little to do if you don't get a good hand up-front ... once you hold a die, many good combinations disappear,... Also getting three 2's is hardly worth it if you can keep going holding a single die.
🐐 satch [OP] · May 17 at 22:46:
@stack exactly
And the issue of only having 10 rounds, makes the likelihood of a game going without any exciting point scores a lot higher.
I think that because of this, my suggestions have the potential to make the game a lot more interesting.
Honestly, before writing this I wasn’t aware that Farkle wasn’t a game that @gritty made up, haha!
I totally understand, discomfort about changing the official rules and having it no longer be ‘Farkle’ as most people know it. But on the other hand, I do think that games evolve, and we have every right to adapt it to be the best it can be for us.
🕹️ skyjake [...] · May 18 at 05:54:
@gritty Oh I see, that makes more sense.
systemrandom
Granted, it is easy to see patterns in randomness, especially when there are only 6 possible values.
Farkle is too hard — I'm not sure I'm right here, but hear me out. I just made it to second place, so I don't think I'm just blaming my poor luck on the game when I say that getting high scores is harder than it should be. The issue isn't the number of points, obviously. It's that aside from collecting ones and fives and occasionally three of a kind, it's really hard to get a roll that scores anything. I've gone multiple games without any of those roles, and the only reason I made it to the...