They make you lose

[Garanwyn]

Here’s the detail:

Color Stacking: The Odds

There are a TON of posts complaining about how the game engine is somehow biased against those of us who color stack. I’ve seen lots of screen shots of 5 or 10 or 20 games, along with complaints that the engine can’t possibly be fair based on these (small) samples. What never seems to get talked about are the actual probabilities, and what we should really expect to happen when we color stack. Which is unfortunate, because the actual probabilities are really informative. Assuming that the gam…

You have to make sure to account for throwing out starting boards with matches, which makes the distribution a little more central.