[Bug-gnubg] Re: Identical dices in GNU

[Øystein Johansen]

Peter O Lura wrote:
> When I play against GNU, sometimes 2 games in a row got identical dices. Is
> there something I can do with my settings to avoid this?

Hi, Peter!

First of all: It's not supposed to be that way!

This is highly interesting, since I have actually heard this from one of 
my friends as well. I have never seen this myself, but I guess there's
something fishy with the computer. One theory I had was that battery of 
the computers internal clock was dead and the dice generator was 
initialised with the same seed for each startup. My friend who also had 
this problem, told me that games repeated them self even in the same 
session (ie. no restart). I'm not sure how this is possible but you 
should check that the dice generator is set to Random number generator. 
You can use Mersenne Twister. (In the menus you select 
Settings->Options->Dice->Mersenne Twister. Then press OK.)

If the dice generator is already set to Mersenne Twister, this is a bug! 
And I'm very sorry, I can't explain this bug. Somehow the seed gets set 
back to the samevalue after a game. How is that possible?

-Øystein
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