I actually always wondered the same thing... if anyone could shed some light on it that'd be cool.

sometimes i think certain lands have higher stack momentum than other lands. other times i think the stack you roll with twice stacks better.

I doubt Ryan would go through the trouble of coding different restacking chances to dofferent kinds of territories. Rushing codification with a poor randomness algorithm suits him better.

codification is a great word

i thought this too at one point but that is not true if someone has a 5 stack round two and you have two spaces of your 4 bordering his 5, odds are you will get a 5 or 4 right next to his 5, maybe 50% chance... but no the stacking isnt perfect like that, its completely random, ive played enough games to know

Ask Jurgen he's the most helpful person on que dice

Will do

wishbone has some interesting theories regarding restacking in his guide...

http://kdice.com/strategies/ideas/44758234

The link dasfury posted contains most of what you should know:

Dice stacking is supposed to be random and I would say it is pretty close to random. You could check its randomness manually but nobody has taken the time to check it in enough detail I think.

So just accept you can't control it for real but as explained in the 2 space rule, you can "control" the power of your stacks by doing the correct moves.

It's human nature to mainly remember the times when something failed (in this case, the desired restack next to the opponent) but also the stat figures show there is a big % where any chosen land does not receive dice

Let's give an example where you have 7 connected lands (none 8stacks) + 1 island = 8 lands total. Every dice is distributed randomly so every of the 8 lands has 1/8 of the chance to receive that particular dice refill. That process is repeated 7 times. The formula to calculate the probability of a land receiving no refills, 1,2...up to 7 is given by:

y! / (x! * (y-x)!) * (1/8)^(x) * (7/8)^(y-x)

so take any of your 8 lands, it will have a 39,3% chance of receiving no refills; 39,3% for 1 extra dice; 16,8% for 2 dice; 4,0% for 3 dice;0,6% for 4 of those 7 dice and 0,05% for 5 dice.

7 connected + 2 islands will have the following odds for 0-3 extra dice on a land: 43,8% (no refills); 38,4 (1); 14,4% (2); 3,0% (3 extra dice)

7 connected, no islands: 34,0% (no refills); 39,7% (1); 19,8% (2); 5,5 (3)

thx a lot, very clear.

The fact restacking is random is what i wanted to confirm (or not:-).

the distribution rules in theory have been heard (studied math), however it is good to see in clear that chances are pretty f***ing high that ur island gets stacked in whatever kind of situation.

And yes it's human nature to remember vividly the situation in which 5 of the 7 restack dice result on the island:-((