Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13368701-20130905202323/@comment-65.175.19.194-20130906163119

I for one am convinced that the Ruby Space bridge being a 50/50 chance per card is accurate. I, too, have been screwed with the bad luck of drawing multiple alt cards with no robots, or vice versa. But if you think about it mathematically (and this is relatively basic...):

if you have 5 pulls, and you have a 1/32 chance of pulling A,A,A,A,A, but you also have a 1/32 chance of pulling R,R,R,R,R; which give you a 1/16 chance of pulling all 1 card (all A or all R).i

f you have 6 pulls, same reasoning, you have a 1/64 chance to pull all As, a 1/64 chance to pull all Rs, so a 1/32 chance to pull all of 1 particular card.

Now consider how many people are playing this game... I have no idea how many, so let's just guesstimate here... if there are 50000, that means that 3125 people are pulling 5 of the same card, and 1563 people pulling 6 of the same card. if there are 100000 people playing, that means 6250 people are pulling 5 of the same card, and 3125 people pulling 6 of the same card.

Sure, it's relatively rare, but that's just how it works... more people playing means more people will experience bad luck. They have every right to be upset by their luck, but no right to be upset by the company that is giving them a 50/50 shot on every pull.

and by the way, if you think you should have a 50% chance of getting 3 As and 3 Rs on a 6 card pull... do the math.. you only have a 31% chance of that kind of success. (20 variations in 64)