burch45 parent
Yes. Very funny for the author to spend a lot of time talking about null hypothesis testing, but not actually running a control experiment to test the null hypothesis that his dice are actually different from the stock dice.
The author's wife could only tolerate so much.
I like to believe that Klaus Teuber secretly specified dice biased towards 1-2-3, strictly for personal benefit in games, and the author’s approach has obscured a much greater effect in that direction.
Catan is played widely enough that many groups tend to introduce their own house rules[1]. E.g. one of my rules is: rolling 2 is the same as rolling 12, so these hexes are slightly less undesirable.
I guess if this really matters, you could come up with some set-up rules to swap some 3s with 11s, 4s with 10s, etc, so that biases towards 1-2-3 are less impactful. But that would be painstaking and annoying. I absolutely wouldn't care to do that, unless we track ELO and have an evenly matched group, which is a bit absurd in a casual game. And as in any strategy game FFA, everyone will still gang up against the current leader (even with imperfect information).