Paralytic: Created page with "Currently the wording "random stack" is slightly misleading - not all stacks get the same chance of being selected. The game code chooses a stack by giving the top stack a 50% c..."

2014-08-24T04:47:14Z

Created page with "Currently the wording "random stack" is slightly misleading - not all stacks get the same chance of being selected. The game code chooses a stack by giving the top stack a 50% c..."

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Currently the wording "random stack" is slightly misleading - not all stacks get the same chance of being selected.

The game code chooses a stack by giving the top stack a 50% chance of being selected, and then halving the chances after that until you are out of stacks.

{| border="1" style="text-align:center"
|+ "Random" stack selection
! Stack #
! Chance of selection
|-
| 1 (aka top)
| 50%
|-
| 2
| 25%
|-
| 3
| 12.5%
|-
| 4
| 6.25%
|-
| 5
| 3.12%
|-
| 6
| 1.56%
|-
| 7
| 0.78%
|-
| 8
| 0.39%
|-
| 9
| 0.19%
|-
| 10
| 0.01%
|}

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Paralytic: Created page with "Currently the wording "random stack" is slightly misleading - not all stacks get the same chance of being selected. The game code chooses a stack by giving the top stack a 50% c..."