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Angry Birds 2 doesn’t even come close to probably the best ranked mobile backgammon game in terms of ethics… I won’t name the company, but I’ve played nearly 10,000 games of backgammon, and each game saved play by play. After writing some serious Python code and doing some equally serious statistical analysis, I found out how they cheat.

They try to guess the random number generator seed, which, once done, allows them to guess what’s coming in the dice. All it took was an observation that the game plays relatively reasonably the first X games then after a certain point the miracles begin. The first X games are when it tries to guess the seed. Once you know the seed it’s game over.