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Re: [piecepack] roll of three 0-5 dice.

Yep. It's used to position the player on the trampoline in the last
game of Epic Funhouse.

http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/EpicFunhouse

Ron

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Daniel Ajoy <da.ajoy@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading:
> THE PIECEPACK: IN SEARCH OF A GENERIC, UNIVERSAL BOARDGAME SET
> by James Kyle (jdroscha@...)
>
> http://www.piecepack.org/piecepack_article.html
>
> And noticed this paragraph:
>
> ======================
>
> The range of 0-5 also has an advantage over the natural 1-6 range (albeit a rather insignificant one) in that the roll of 3 dice covers all possible totals of tile values or coin values within a suit. That is, given a random subset of the tiles (or coins) within a single suit, the total value of those tiles will be in the range 0-15, which is the same range achieved by the roll of 3 dice.
>
> ======================
>
> Has this feature been used in a game?
>
> Daniel
>
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