Forum Archive : Cheating

How to tell when somebody's cheating From:   Michael Halpenny Address:   s00bf02c@student.ucd.ie Date:   25 February 2001 Subject:   Re: honest game Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   3A998895.823D499D@student.ucd.ie I know that I'm going to sound very naive here but is there anyway that you can tell that somebody is cheating on you? Apart that is from them getting the right rolls at the right time if not earlier? MichaelH hi  writes: There are several ways to cheat, but in reality none of them involve the dice, no matter how much whining and complaining you might hear. The only way you can be cheated "directly", that I know of, is if someone is using snowie or jellyfish to determine their moves. That can be detected by analyzing the match yourself and seeing if the opponent is playing at too high a level. The rest of the cheating involves obtaining ratings points by other various nefarious means, and if you played one of those morons, they could not cheat you by somehow winning your match unfairly. Andy M  writes: The two cheats i know of are Dropping - only let games they will win complete Playing with themselves, to gain extra points I sometimes wonder if some people are using snowie on the side, perhaps they just think a lot.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

Cheating

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Avoiding loaded dice  (Gregg Cattanach, June 2000) 

Collusion in Monte Carlo  (Kit Woolsey, Aug 1995) 

Dealing with live-play cheating  (Gregg Cattanach+, May 2006) 

Dice magicians  (Paul Weaver, July 2010) 

Dice manipulation  (Paul Epstein, Nov 2005) 

Dice manipulation  (Kit Woolsey, Jan 1995) 

Gamesmanship vs. cheating  (Albert Steg+, May 1994) 

How to tell when somebody's cheating  (Michael Halpenny+, Feb 2001) 

How to tell you're playing a computer  (Douglas Zare, Dec 2003) 

Premature roll and late pick-up  (Ian Shaw, Feb 2002) 

Taking advantage of computer players  (Matthew J. Reklaitis, July 1997) 

Using computer to aid online play  (Paul Weaver, July 2006) 

Using computer to aid online play  (Ken Arnold+, Mar 2006) 

Using computer to aid online play  (Patti Beadles+, Jan 2003) 

With a baffle box  (Joe Russell, Aug 2009) 

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