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In Violet City, you have to get an egg from the Nurse. Rather then guess, you need to solve a code. After standing in front of the Nurse and choosing four words using Easy Chat, you don’t know which phrase(s) will lead you to a Mareep or if your choice will be refused. What makes … Read more

You want to get that fancy-ass trainer card so badly, but 30 grand of jewels might not be enough. It’s the old Uma Musume conundrum: How much is too much? This is a digital game of hope vs. Math. Will fate smile on you? Should you save up just to play it safe? Thinking ahead … Read more

With hopes raised, you join the queue for the Tombs of Amascut. You find yourself spending the next three hours raiding without even a hint of a purple flash in your name. Many player share this experience because they don’t understand loot table. They assume higher difficulty mean better odds, when it’s realy more about … Read more

And this is all within a finite period of time: the character you desire appears on the screen, the banner goes live, and suddenly, the money in your pocket is either bigger or smaller then you thought. There’s a unique sort of tension that develops around playing Genshin Impact like this. It isn’t simply having … Read more

For many, Iron Banner instills a certain kind of fear. Everyone is grinding through the playlist without thinking about tactics. Long queue times feels like a punishment to those who don’t progress quickly enough. The problem there is that rep isn’t gained solely on skill, it’s a math problem. You’re solving an equation that reboots … Read more

Wintertodt rise. You stand in Zeah and wait. It is a minigame. It is a ritual. It is about friends and fire. It is about heat and survival. There are rewards and hopes. Round after round, you may ask yourself: Am I farming correctly? Am I just running in circles? Is there anything more efficient … Read more

The Minecraft banner calculator works like this: You have an idea. Maybe it is a crest to place on top of a wall. Or perhaps you want a creeper face on a shield. Now you look in your inventory and realize you do not have enough dyes, or worse, you only have one blank banner … Read more

Every Old School RuneScape player has a question when they enter Tombs of Amascut: How many times will I have to run it? How long until I get this drop? What’s the answer? This isn’t just a grind or a matter of luck. Several things affects this. The variables include probability math, team composition and … Read more

After grinding for three hours, only to realize they’ve collected absolutely nothing of value in their inventory, Old School RuneScape player know what despair feels like. You run through the cave, kill boss, and walk away. Yet there’s no new money in your bank account. Your patience has worn thin. When luck doesn’t even out, … Read more

If you run Barrows for many hours, you might get nothing but basic runes. That’s frustrating! It feels like a cruel and random system… until you realize that it is just math. When you see probability as math rather than cruel chance, you can use the calculator on this page to find those odds so … Read more

But it also means you don’t need to guess how many more hours of grinding will result in something other then burning out your wrists. Instead, it converts vague hopes into concrete percentages, the first step on the road to actualy getting said gear. Until you see the pieces stacking up, Loot luck in Tiny … Read more

And then there’s that frustration, where you clear out some high-tier point of interest for twenty minutes. And all you get is expired canned goods and junk. That kind of frustration make players wonder why they even bother. In 7 Days to Die, the loot system are layered, and these layers aren’t understood by most … Read more