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[–] batdad90@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t judge me… I’ll pick it every time goddamnit!!!

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll have $4 left in the shop, and it'll be arcana Vs celestial boosters

I'll pick the arcana just because it might have the wheel that might give me a result

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

3 in 22 chance,followed by 1 in 4 chance,which is msot likely to give 50 extra chips.

vs 3 in 9 chance of a chips + mult boost.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not implying I'm a clever man or anything

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

90% of gamblers quit right before getting plychrome

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Once it worked 4 times in a row for me. So now I never expect it to work ever again.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"IM DUEEEEEEE" I scream as I watch "Nope!" flash up on my screen for the 6th time in a row

[–] Laser@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Six times in a row is a little less than 18%, so not totally unrealistic

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

16.666...%. I'll never forget that one.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

That'd be 1/6, a value that is close to but not quite (3/4)^6

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It worked the first time I did it and I've been chasing my losses since then.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One day It'll work and 5 seconds later I'll die.

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Username checks out

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

1 in 5 on lucky cards is a damn lie too. I had it on like nine cards in my deck, played them at least three dozen times over the course of four antes after I started counting, not once did the +20 proc. .03% chance. .03%. Call me a walking debacle, god only knows why I play games of chance.

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It because it's random and not pseudo random. Video games sometimes switch to pseudo random because otherwise things like this happens. Dota 2 had a character with an automatic counter attack which had a 30% (can't really remember) chance to proc. They had to change it to pseudo random because there were lucky/unlucky people getting 0 counters or 100% counters

https://dota2.fandom.com/wiki/Random_Distribution

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

This is also true because truly random number generation on computers doesn't really exist. https://youtu.be/tP-Ipsat90c. Numberphile has a couple neat videos on randomness, here's one

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I feel like lucky procs all the time for me, while Wheel of Fortune is a constant source of disappointment.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Cavendish goes extinct more than The Wheel works...

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I counted and it took no less than 15 tries before it ever worked for me. Ever since then then my rates have improved but I'm still highly skeptical of the "1 in 4" written on the card.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Wait this card does more than “nope”?!