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Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by k-mcgrady »

shurcooL wrote: post #16
WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

I thought it was a theoretical game that no one actually plays.

Definitely not just theoretical. List of 'notable incidents' including deaths on Wikipedia[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette#Notable_incide...

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by x0054 »

WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

The way I though you spin it is with the gun facing up. The would negate the gravity effect. And yes, people "play" it, stupid drunk people.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by forTheRecord »

shurcooL wrote: post #16
WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

I thought it was a theoretical game that no one actually plays.

Last year alone four people died in the US while playing the game. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/dion-von-mays-dies-...

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by tel »

madsushi wrote: post #15
WA wrote: post #13

I once read that the chance of Russian Roulette is NOT 1:6 but more like 1:600, since you play with one bullet and the weight of the bullet makes it relatively unlikely that the bullet stops next to the top position in the barrel when you spin it. Don't know if this is true but in the end, it doesn't matter for this stupid game.

Depends on if you're re-spinning between turns. Otherwise the first guy might get a 1/600 chance, but everyone afterward has better (or worse?) than 1/6 odds.

Well, if it's the case that there's a 1/6000 chance that the first guy gets hit, it's 5999/6000 chance that the third guy gets it. (Not true, but it's gesturally correct).

So I imagine the odds are much less skewed or NOBODY forgets the spin between rounds. Also, if you don't spin between rounds and you're the 6th person to try it... this isn't really a game of risk anymore.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Post by orangethirty »

SandB0x wrote: post #18
orangethirty wrote: post #4

Funny bit about this is that someone will give these people millions in funding or acquihire. All for a: from random import randint choice = randint(1, 6) delete = randint(1, 6) if choice == delete: print "Today is not your lucky day." else: print "Try again tomorrow." print "Today's choice was {0}.".format(choice) #I felt like writing some bad python.

FYI "choice" is the name of a function in the random module: from random import choice if choice(range(6)): print "Try again tomorrow." else: print "Today is not your lucky day."

No one liner? Im disappointed. Did you read the commnt at the end?

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Post by hawkharris »

orangethirty wrote: post #4

Funny bit about this is that someone will give these people millions in funding or acquihire. All for a: from random import randint choice = randint(1, 6) delete = randint(1, 6) if choice == delete: print "Today is not your lucky day." else: print "Try again tomorrow." print "Today's choice was {0}.".format(choice) #I felt like writing some bad python.

I know what you mean. In a sense the backend code is probably pretty simple. But that just goes to show how important the implementation / design really is. I just survived the game, and I thought the spinning revolver wheel is what made the experience.
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