Quick!

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mike @grumpygamer blockout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@oblomov @grumpygamer it seems to me the chances of the process stopping must be low and must exponentially decrease the longer the process runs

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mcc @grumpygamer that would be my intuition as well but I'm sure there's a mathematical way to prove it

[calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be]

@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer hi! It seems like you've stumbled upon the lovely mathematical genre of problem called 'branching processes' and 'extinction probabilities'. I don't know how to calculate this, but I can show you where to look.

Tbis Reddit post had a similar idea to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/jH1LzTXROe

This is the wiki page on branching processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_process?wprov=sfla1

[calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be]

@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer
After reading up on this a bit I can semi-confidently say that this branching process with d6s will continue infinitely. The highest chance of it terminating is of course in the first or second roll, but after that chances of terminating become infinitesimally small.

[ozone89@techhub.social]

@grumpygamer Just as exercise, or to fully develop in a product?

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@ireneista @mcc @grumpygamer there was a pickup sticks game in Windows 3.1

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@grumpasaurus @mcc @grumpygamer was there? we never saw that one

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@ireneista @mcc @grumpygamer https://www.myabandonware.com/game/symantec-game-pack-1a1

I was pretty good at it ngl

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@grumpygamer you can do a 2d esque game where you slide the cubes to form a picture