[Bug-gnubg] Initsialisation of the dice algorithms?

[Øystein O Johansen]

Hi,

I spoke to a friend of mine at the club yesterday, a GNU Backgammon user.
He tells me that he gets repeated dice rolls. He recognizes games that has
been play before because the dice rolls was the same. I have heard claims
of cheating etc., but this sounds like the RNG is initialized to the same
seed. How is this possible? Can it be that the clock inside his computer
has stopped (battery exausted?) and the random number generator initializes
to the same seed every startup?

-Øystein


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