[rtkwe]

Is the roll determined by your position on the board at all? I just ran into a seemingly endless chain of 3 rolls where I was bouncing back and forth between two positions for 15+ rolls.

edit: I kept going for another 10 rolls before bailing out of the loop for one iteration and got back into the cycle again immediately on returning to the start point. ie: I went A-B-A-B...A-C-A-B... where C was also 3 steps away from A and I rolled a 3 on C too). Definitely seems like it's a partially deterministic stroke roll.

[bena]

You have to move exactly the number of dots shown in the roll.

Trees block you. You can't finish your move on sand or water. You also can't do "knight moves". So you're kind of stuck going straight or at 45 degree angles.

[rtkwe]

I know that. I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times. I could have chosen a different move but after going A to B to A and rolling 3 AGAIN I was more interested in seeing if that was a fluke or if it was something else happening.

Being able to do that 20+ times makes it really improbable the rolls were truly random numbers hence my question.

[dragonwriter]

> I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times.

For a fair single die, every possible sequence of a given length is equally (im)probable. We tend to notice the ones that are particularly convenient or inconvenient, but they are exactly as likely as any of the less memorable ones.

[rtkwe]

Yes I know this but also tweaking the weights of rolls to be lower as you near the hole will also be less frustrating to the players.

[mindtricks]

Had the same issue, but finally gave up.