Topic: A multi player dice game (Read 1163 times)

Here is an other game concept.  It can involve several players.

We are going to bet on the outcome of a dice, i.e. of the outcome of a random number from 0 to 5.

There are several possible bets, basically any combination of the ways you can place you money on the 5 numbers.

Thus, a example of a bet can be :

0: 0
1: 1BTC
2: 2BTC
3: 0
4: 0
5: 0

In this exemple, the player bets 1 bc on the 1, and 2 bc on the 2.  Such a bet can be noted (0 1 2 0 0 0).

Therefore we have a collection of bets  (bet_{i,j}) , where i=0..5 and j=0..N-1,  and N is the number of players.

Let's note k the outcome of the dice,  then the player n will receive the following amount :

G_n =  \sum_{i,j} bet_{i,j} * bet_{k,n}/\sum_j bet_{k, j}


In order to decide the outcome of the dice, each player thinks about a number, and computes a hash of a string beginning with this number.  The right part of the string should be some random characters.  Such a string could be :

324  jkncjknsdninusjiujzdujsqoiwqlwdxx

for instance.

Each player has to keep this string secret until everybody is ready.   Meanwhile, everybody shows the hash of their string, and the corresponding bet.


For instance a player who wants to bet 10 BTC on '4' would say this :

(0 0 0 0 10 0)
eb36f2f12cc6b586098a10c90493799872f55fcd4fae7b5a9bbc8dc44a2ba06c

Once everyone has placed his bet, everybody reveals his original string.

We then calculate the sum of all revealed numbers, modulo 6.


All losers should pay the winners in proportion of their bets, in order to comply to the G_n formula.  This means that a player x must pay to a player n the following amount :

bet_{i,x} * bet_{k,n}/\sum_j bet_{k, j}

A loser who refuses to pay will not be accepted for next games.

Ok ?



Let's try.  Here is my bet :

(0.01 0 0 0 0 0)
503d6a1b3c06f8d62f38e5ebc6cd6a658cf109372d3c5e89ac06cc047ea9a0d8

If you don't mind, I'll store my original string here, in encrypted form (I
don't want to store it on my disk where I could easily forget about it or
remove it).

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Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

hQIOA9o1PxP9fpBoEAf7BTWWCIQPyIhD1KtlMBx1TKXjUjaBncRJHDCRaYbw1XCu
PDVUKs1zoOXOsIXDqIk35xY6Dw/QW0w1zNUqExaox56Isyg9kkzKOA8K5rWv4gA8
jUazIawCwKbEYYq4LHkcV5K0ET4CzBmZ/fy2yQ9sbl1QvitaKVbvmYb5mh+kqhid
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6Xf/7DG+BlIUPO+/vfbj0YDNaPwp8eQCtO5Q5+u3/LSxgbeM6eTWkYzpZfjyAG0w
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m9JqAQz7J7erktvy/cB30vWD1xn4BPgQAqfQr901BtjNDMf4cGnhOPeew+I1yOIF
NF0zrOeBbeNcWvzKSyQdUGOektb0qaolAeXfG7nFMFwdrFXiLNYY8rTJ2t7ODwdK
bhe6zxePbm5HWSOz9w==
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