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Dice score sheet
Scores a five-dice sheet, checks each entry belongs where it was put, and adds the bonuses.
It runs entirely in this browser tab: nothing you type is uploaded, and every draw comes from a seed the result prints.
The columns it takes
- Category
- Text you supply.
- Dice
- Text you supply.
An example
ones | 1 1 3 4 5
twos | 2 2 2 4 5
threes | 3 3 3 3 1
fours | 4 4 2 2 1
fives | 5 5 5 2 1
sixes | 6 6 6 6 2
three of a kind | 4 4 4 2 6
four of a kind | 5 5 5 5 1
full house | 2 2 3 3 3
small straight | 1 2 3 4 6
large straight | 2 3 4 5 6
chance | 6 6 5 4 3
five of a kind | 4 4 4 4 4
Settings
- Upper bonus at
- Sixty-three is the usual threshold; families genuinely differ, which is why it is here. A number from 55 to 84.
- The upper bonus
- Thirty-five in the standard rules. A number from 0 to 100.
- List what is still open
- Which categories are still free, which is what somebody halfway through wants to know.
How to use it
- Fill in the table above, a row at a time.
- Adjust the settings beside it until the result is what you wanted.
- Copy the result, or save it as a file. The result updates as you type.
Questions
- Why does everything have a seed?
- So that a roll can be checked. A draw here is a function of its seed: the same word gives the same result to you, to the person you send the link to, and to the desktop build. Leave it empty and a fresh seed is drawn and shown, so you can pin a roll after the fact.
- Can I use this to deal cards for money?
- No. The generator is reproducible on purpose and invertible from a single output, which is what makes it useful here and useless for that. It is not a cryptographic source of chance and the result says so.
- Why is there no word list in the word finder?
- Because a usable one is larger than this whole application, and a small one is worse than none: it says “not a word” about words. The list comes from you, and the result says how many words it searched so a search that found nothing is visibly a short list.
- Does the chess reader have an engine?
- No: no evaluation, no best move, no opening book. What it does is replay a game on a real board, which is a fact about the rules rather than an opinion about the moves — and it stops at a move that will not play rather than reading past it.
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