Grim Reaper:

I completely disagree! In fact i couldn't disagree more.... The act of not allowing 5 consecutive 4's for example or a specific series of rolls, because it doesn't seem fair for one player, is completely out of the philosophy of a luck-based game.......!

A good random number generator is important for having a decent Backgammon game, but having a bad random number generator is not unfair as long as the system doesn't give advantage to a specific player. If there is a flaw at the RNG, but there is no advantage settled from before for a specific player, then everything is fair.
And as i want to believe and believe, that there is no advantage given to any player, then every hypothetical flaw giving too many consecutive doubles, is not unfair. Of cource as i've said, such a flaw doesn't give a decent Backgammon game.......

But i wonder, i have played 450+ Backgammon games here and i have never seen more than 2 consecutive doubles for a player........In fact i can even complain about too "normal" distribution of the rolls......And this is a fact in my opinion. Also it's a fact that there are no wild series of rolls and this is somewhat related to my other observation.


PlayBunny

on the bar when there's an open point. Nine rolls on the trot and I can't get one of the 11/36 rolls that will let me in? That's beyond belief! But it "happens regularly", so let's fix that one please.

The probability for this is: (11/36)^9 = 0.002% so my goat sacrifices paid off....

Chessmaster1000: The probability for this is: (11/36)^9 = 0.002%
Actually it's (1-11/36)^9 which is 3.8%

Chessmaster1000: Lol. RNG?? A TLA from the man who doesn't use abbreviations?

Luke Skywalker: Hah! I've been making that mistake for ... ever!! Yes, dancing for 9 rolls is reasonable at 4%. Even a 12-roll dance is not totally unbelievable at 1.25% and staying on the bar for 4, 5 or 6 rolls is almost to be expected at 23.3%, 16.2% and 11.2% respectively.

Thanks for pointing that out, Luke. Lol. I've been playing correctly, according to those figures, but, having made the wrong assumption all that time ago about the maths, my experience of seeing long dances so frequently was at odds with my understanding of the probabilities. When I read your correction it was a real Doh moment.

Luke Skywalker:
Yep correct, it happens when i write without thinking even a second........

playBunny: Tired of writing 3 times random number generator. So i followed your advice...

Chessmaster1000:

playBunny: i did change my profile thank you very much backgammon is a frustrating game but i've learned to cope with the stress... lol just kidding i don't even care anymore.

Saruman: Lol. Good for you. One of the secrets of dealing with stress is caring less .. then you get to enjoy more.

please read what I have said on gen chat about the RSS at top right hand and also the orange square at bottom right hand....I dont want to spam the boards :)

Really Swell Site

;)

What is the most used method to buy membership?

What is better PayPal or MoneyBookers? Can anybody share their experience?

Thanks.

eagle eye: For me a check to Erlissa works the best.

Tuesday: You can't have too many ssss's, LOL

eagle_eye, Purple: in other words, you can pay the BrainKing representative of your country.

Fencer: That link was hard to find. Took me several pages to find that page .. did I miss it or is it obscure? It's only because I knew that it exists somewhere that I went looking. I doubt that eagle eye would find it (except by accident when exploring, which is how I know).

I went via BrainKing Staff at the bottom of this page, then Eriisa (because Purple mentioned her). She has a link "Member of BrainKing.com customer service" on her profile page. From that I tried the Representatives link (not a word that spells money!) and only then did I see the alternative payment method.

There's surely a quicker way to that page but it wasn't from Paid membership which is the most obvious place.

eagle eye: paypal is the easiest if you have an account. ;) IMO

playBunny: It's on the bottom of this page where you get directly from the Paid Membership page.

Fencer: So I did miss it. Oops, apologies. My bad.

eagle eye: I find that Paypal works best for me. I tried Moneybookers, but it wants lots of ID requirements. I guess it really depneds on which country you live in, as others had said.

LOL, and Purple can call me anything as long as its not 'late to dinner'!!!

Eriisa: yes eriisa i used money bookers teh first time, but my mum used paypal due to the id requirements needed, think its a newish thing they've introduced

I sent my payment via Harley by Credit Card. She only charges $100.00 for this service.

ClayNashvilleTn:

How about a Spell checker, I am useless at spelling.

wellywales: Whut guud wuld a spel chker do? hehehe

Actually you can get addons for explorer and I believe you can get a spell checker too. ;) Freeware!!!

ArtfulDodger: I think wellywales means the magic spells that he's casting to get the right dice. A bit too much frog sweat or powdered spider's web, or a badly drawn symbol, and the dice are off by just a touch. ;o)

playBunny: :) lol.... I need that too!

playBunny: I use the spell cheker in OE, just thought Fencer wanted something to do

On internet , there doesnt exist really good translator . If you want something to transale , send me a message and i will do a best

wellywales: No spell checker is perfect plus sometimes it might be confusing for the reader...I recommend not to use any, we will definitely know what you want to say

Maxxina: Huh? I think you need a translator yourself...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think wellywales is talking about a normal English spellchecker, nothing to do with Czech.

bumble: You're absolutely correct!!!

I don't understand the meaning of the red dots on the "Main page", column "Time left". It concern actually two opponents over 13.

Hi Spirou,

That game says "Time for game (?): Time: 21 days, Bonus: 21 hours, Limit: 21 days, no days off"

You'll notice that on the game page itself the "no days off" is in red. That's what the red dot signifies.

The corresponding green dot occurs when a game has "fixed weekends" and that text will similarly appear in green.

Spirou: http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=13

playBunny an Pedro Martinez: Thank you both! :-)

how do you make words so that when you click on them they go to that page?

Saruman: <a href=http://www.url.com/page.html>text to click on</a>

with quotation marks around the URL

Aren't they optional?
Google with unquoted URL
Google with quoted URL

well I guess not then! I was taught they were necessary

rod03801: In web design you need them if you are conforming to the newer standards (ie., xhtml). It's advisable to use them if there is a space in the url.

I always use them without question so I've not tested that. So, here's a couple of googles with and without:

"Google url": cats and dogs
Google url: cats and dogs

Lol. Brainking takes out the " and dogs" bit in both cases, though the two urls would work diferently in a web page, I reckon.

"Expires: 13. August 2006"

Is it being discontinued or changed?

ArtfulDodger: I believe that is when your current membership will run out.

skipinnz: ahhhhhhhh lol

ArtfulDodger: either that, or you have a date with the grim reaper then! personally trice isn't my type! lol

tazman7474:

ArtfulDodger:
expired knight?
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/hoskins/85/ep-17-6.jpg

ArtfulDodger: I have a saucier answer,but missy scarlet might crack the ole' pink whip.

Can we at least pretend we're trying to be on topic?!

harley,I hope this in not interpretd as being sarcastic..but this is the general board?is there a rigid topic range?
any way your right I was being silly,enought of that.