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Originally Posted by Misplaced Buckeye
This confuses me. Why don't you throw the chit back in the cup after each selection to maintain the same randomness?
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The idea isn't to emulate dice - or you'd just use dice - but to eliminate the runs of high or low numbers that pure randomness produces over the short term.
It's a method for ensuring, in effect, that the dice roll each possible number the same number of times during the game. So if you have six of each chit, and you don't throw them back, you're ensuring that you will get six ones, six twos, and so on, and you can't get the seventh of any number before you've had six of all the numbers, and put all the chits back in the cup.