Friday, April 30, 2021

a side result of some dice math the other day

How To Roll 1d6 When All You Have Are Two Six-Sided Dice

Roll     Result

2 or 6      1

3 or 5      2

4 or 10      3

   7          4

8 or 12    5

9 or 11    

8 comments:

  1. The result of "3" should read "4 or 10". You have 9 on there twice.

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  2. Ok, but probably not particularly useful.

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  3. One could fairly easily adapt this in a table to determine the result of 2d6 with a single six-sided die, you just need a second roll for the numbers with two possible outcomes, weighted to the probability of each possible result on a 2d6 roll. So let's say you roll a "1" (result 2 or 6), you then throw the die again and on the result of 1 to 5, you treat the result as a 6 on the 2d6, on a roll of a 6, you treat it as a 2.

    Roll 2nd roll result
    1 1-5 6
    6 2
    2 1-4 5
    5-6 3
    3 1-3 4
    4-6 10
    4 - 7
    5 1-5 8
    6 12
    6 1-4 9
    5-6 11

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    1. I'm not sure there's anything to get.

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  5. Anonymous3:47 PM

    There is actually a more interesting way:
    Roll Result
    7.............1
    2 or 8........2
    3 or 9........3
    4 or 10.......4
    5 or 11.......5
    6 or 12.......6

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