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Or the dice-o-matic :-)

Greatest implimentation of a RNG I have seen. Not really realistic to have in every server room. http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

I bet they're lousy for gaming.

Well... it depends on the type of games you actually play.

Here is a slightly-absurd-but-awesomme dice rolling machine.

DiceOMatic. Complete with USB camera interface.

Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ dice rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the dice rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other sources, but have always received numerous complaints that the dice are not random enough. Some players have put more effort into statistical analysis of the rolls than they put into their doctoral dissertation.

A few years ago I tinkered with a dice rolling machine made from Legos. Though great fun, it was noisy and cantankerous and unreliable, and it never recovered from the move two years ago. But it had made players happy, at least for a while. So I decided to make a 'professional' grade rolling machine

Okay so this paragraph in summary says dice rolls aren't random enough! Thats it, nothing else, the summary says dice rolls aren't random.

Good good glad we got that done next paragraph

A few years ago I tinkered with a dice rolling machine made from Legos. Though great fun, it was noisy and cantankerous and unreliable, and it never recovered from the move two years ago. But it had made players happy, at least for a while. So I decided to make a 'professional' grade rolling machine

Okay this paragraph tells us that there is a machine to roll dice, hmm okay awesome lets sum up the two paragraphs....

Dice aren't random enough and machines roll dice

Next paragraph to summerize

The result is what you see here: a machine that can belch a continuous river of dice down a spiraling ramp, then elevate, photograph, process and upload almost a million and a half rolls to the server a day.

Okay this machine takes picture and sends to a server! done, this paragraph is done.

Done I've summerized the entire article, how hard is it to read NOT between the lines, don't expand, don't read into, don't over analysis anything. Look it over get the fact and then your done, Only "ender" and me can seem to do that, and BTW I got the quotes from the article

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

So what don't I understand, This machine rolls dice because dice rolls in computers aren't random enough, it takes pictures and sends them to a server to be looked at. THATS IT THAT IS ALL THIS MACHINE DOES. Stop telling me I don't know how to read english, If you didn't get that, then you don't how to read english because you over read that article, that's all this is about nothing else.

I've just proven my point and shown that I know what I'm talking about!

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LinuxOverWindows

Any games here:
http://gamesbyemail.com/

In particular:
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/Gambit/Preview
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/WW2/Preview

Any games here:
http://gamesbyemail.com/

In particular:
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/Gambit/Preview
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/WW2/Preview

Any games here:
http://gamesbyemail.com/

In particular:
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/Gambit/Preview
http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/WW2/Preview

I'm already addicted to online Risk. Here's my site of choice: http://www.gamesbyemail.com.