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Need math peeps (have googles not finding what I need) I need to calculate the average value of 6 dice rolled with custom faces (inside)

Posted by Capstern Sep 1 '14, 09:59

so if I have 6 dice
each has the following faces 0,1,1,2,2,3

If I roll them 1000 times what is the average value someone will get

then same average value for 5 dice and 7 dice

I am just sorta stuck

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Assuming you have a 1 in 6 chance, it's 1/6th each value added together. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 1, 10:39 7
- and the # of rolls is irrelevant to EV. -- nm - Reagen Sep 1, 10:41
- In your case, it'll average 1.5 each dice so it's either 7.5 or 9.0 or 10.5 depending in # of dice. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 1, 10:41 5
  - 4 dice is 6 4 is 7 or 8 and 7 is 10 or 11...so helpful thanks -- nm - Capstern Sep 1, 11:04
  - Thanks - got some help and yes 6 dice average 9 under this configuration each roll - Capstern Sep 1, 11:03 3
    - You really need to not let znufrii write your gaming logic* -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 1, 11:04 2
      - lol. I wont. This is about building a dice pool that has some perchance to fail even against weak mobs - Capstern Sep 1, 11:09 1
        
        *nods knowingly* -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 1, 11:11
There'd probably some one-line way to do it in Ruby, like [0,1,1,2,2,3].rand.times(1000).avg (but I'm new to ruby) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 1, 10:24
There's online caluclators for a lot of this stuff. aka Dice Rolls -- nm - budice Sep 1, 10:02 1
- Yes I have tried like 5 and I run into the issue that either I cant customize the faces or - Capstern Sep 1, 10:04
And being honest i found some stuff that might work but the set up and math is beyond me - math is hard -- nm - Capstern Sep 1, 10:01

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