Shave Roulette

[kingfisher]

I played yesterday. It picked out Soapy Science Lollipop Citrus, my Graydog brush, and my Stahly live blade.

I got an amazing lather out of the Soapy Science with the Graydog brush, and had a really good shave. Not shaving today, so I won't be playing today, but I'll play on Friday.

 

[Sinnbad11]

Tonight, my shave is:
Brian brown Spanish point, first line razor ruby, grizzly bay spyro flake, and my Jones shake sharp mkii with a new permasharp.

 

[Doorcube]

Spin! The next number is => 6328

 

[Atlantic59]

6328 => Santa Maria del Fiore + Zenith B03-A26 + RR German 37 + Astra SS

I've been looking forward to using SMdF again, and what better brush to use with it than the Zenith?

 

[Atlantic59]

I'm updating my current bets to better use up some odd soaps and blades. Bets stand until posted otherwise.

Slot	Lather​	Brush​	Razor​	Blade​
0	Haslinger Schafmilch	Omega 49	Fatip OC Frankenrazor George Jetson Special	GSB
1	Fine Santal Absolut	Semogue 1250	Fatip Piccolo Mk1 Little One	Nacet
2	Santa Maria del Fiore	Semogue 620	Razorock German 37 Max HD	Personna Med Prep
3	Speick	Zenith B03-A26	Gillette Pre-War Tech + Super Knurl Knurl Deal	Perma-Sharp Super
4	Osma Tradition	Yaqi Sagrada Famila	Pearl OC Frankenrazor Bolt of Indra	KAI
5	Saturnia	Yaqi Purple Haze	Fatip OC Frankenrazor George Jetson Special	Feather
6	Proraso Red	Razorock Bruce	Fatip Piccolo Mk1 Little One	Bolzano
7	Cella	Yaqi 2-Band Mysterious Space	Razorock German 37 Max HD	BIC Chrome Platinum
8	CRS Wild Rose	Vie-Long 50/50 Horse Chubby Fan	Gillette Pre-War Tech + Super Knurl Knurl Deal	Astra SS
9	Omega Eucalyptus	Omega 10065	Pearl OC Frankenrazor Bolt of Indra	Racer Platinum

 

[Eben Stone]

I'd like to participate. I have 3 soaps, 2 brushes, 3 razors, 17 blades. Any suggestions on how I can play with all the blades? I was considering dropping the brushes in trade of using 2 digits for blades.

 

[Sinnbad11]

I'd like to participate. I have 3 soaps, 2 brushes, 3 razors, 17 blades. Any suggestions on how I can play with all the blades? I was considering dropping the brushes in trade of using 2 digits for blades.

Its interesting, you can alter interpretation to match whatever you need. You could drop the brushes and use two digits for blades. You could also do something more complicated such as taking your blade number and allowing it to choose a brush as well. For example, greater than 9 is one brush and less than 9 is the other, so for today the last two digits were 2 and 8 so added together would be blade #10 and brush number two for >9.

 

[Eben Stone]

I'm in. Sorry for the verbose post but I couldn't get the table to format properly.

Soap
0 Lather & Wood bay rum
1 SV Opuntia
2 TBS maca root
3 Lather & Wood bay rum
4 SV Opuntia
5 TBS maca root
6 Lather & Wood bay rum
7 SV Opuntia
8 TBS maca root
9 Lather & Wood bay rum

Brush
0 VDH
1 Muhle
2 VDH
3 Muhle
4 VDH
5 Muhle
6 VDH
7 Muhle
8 VDH
9 Muhle

Razor
0 Boker butterfly
1 Muhle R41
2 Muhle R89
3 Boker butterfly
4 Muhle R41
5 Muhle R89
6 Boker butterfly
7 Muhle R41
8 Muhle R89
9 Boker butterfly

Blades (sum digit 3, 4)
0 Polsilver Super Iridium
1 Bic Chrome Platinum
2 Gillette 7 o'clock black
3 Gillette 7 o'clock yellow
4 Gillette Nacet
5 Persona Med Prep
6 Persona Lab Blue
7 Perma Sharp Super
8 Gillette Silver Blue
9 Derby Premium
10 Wilkinson Sword
11 Derby Extra
12 Vidvut Supermax
13 Shark SS
14 Feather HS
15 Astra SP (sampler pack)
16 Dorco ST301
17 Astra SP old
18 Astra SP new

 

[Doorcube]

Spin! The next number is => 3763

 

[Atlantic59]

3763 => Speick + Yaqi 2-Band Mysterious Space + Fatip Piccolo Mk1 + Astra SS

Looks promising, I've been wanting to use Speick...

 

[Atlantic59]

I'd like to participate. I have 3 soaps, 2 brushes, 3 razors, 17 blades. Any suggestions on how I can play with all the blades? I was considering dropping the brushes in trade of using 2 digits for blades.

To make your odds of using each blade fair and equal, you could alternate days like this: On the even days, use the digit directly; on odd days, add 10 to the digit. You would alternate between blades 0-9 on the even days, and blades 10-19 on the odd days. Equal odds, across the board for all possibilities.

Adding two digits together creates a problem of unequal odds of choosing each blade.

For example, to get each number, and the odds of doing so:

0 => (0 + 0), odds 1:100

1 => (0 + 1) || (1 + 0), odds 2:100

2 => (0 + 2) || (1 + 1) || (2 + 0), odds 3:100

3 => (0 + 3) || (1 + 2) || (2 + 1) || (3 + 0), odds 4:100

4 => (0 + 4) || (1 + 3) || (2 + 2) || (3 + 1) || (4 + 0), odds 5:100

5 => (0 + 5) || (1 + 4) || (2 + 3) || ( 3 + 2) || (4 + 1) || (5 + 0), odds 6:100

and so on...

So, this system makes it six times more likely for you to use a Med Prop than a Polsilver, for example.

 

[Eben Stone]

To make your odds of using each blade fair and equal, you could alternate days like this: On the even days, use the digit directly; on odd days, add 10 to the digit. You would alternate between blades 0-9 on the even days, and blades 10-19 on the odd days. Equal odds, across the board for all possibilities.

Adding two digits together creates a problem of unequal odds of choosing each blade.

For example, to get each number, and the odds of doing so:

0 => (0 + 0), odds 1:100

1 => (0 + 1) || (1 + 0), odds 2:100

2 => (0 + 2) || (1 + 1) || (2 + 0), odds 3:100

3 => (0 + 3) || (1 + 2) || (2 + 1) || (3 + 0), odds 4:100

4 => (0 + 4) || (1 + 3) || (2 + 2) || (3 + 1) || (4 + 0), odds 5:100

5 => (0 + 5) || (1 + 4) || (2 + 3) || ( 3 + 2) || (4 + 1) || (5 + 0), odds 6:100

and so on...

So, this system makes it six times more likely for you to use a Med Prop than a Polsilver, for example.

Ok. Thanks for explaining that. I'll add a blade to get 0-19:
19 Gillette Silver Blue

 

[Eben Stone]

3763 => Lather & Wood bay rum, Muhle brush, Boker butterfly, Gillette 7 o'clock yellow

I just realized I have 2 sampler packs of soaps that I've completely forgot about. Maybe I'll adjust the bid before next round.

 

[Eben Stone]

Thank you @Doorcube for coming up with this shave game idea. And thank you @Atlantic59 for suggesting a good way to implement it.

It's just a simple game, but first round and it's already been helpful. I probably would have never used my Boker butterfly again, and I've been pretty lazy with trying new blades and soaps from my sampler packs.

Today I got an awesome shave with my Boker and G7Y. It far exceeded my expectations.

 

[henrickd]

I’m getting my list together. I’ll play weekly. This seems like a fun idea. Thanks for coming up with it.

 

[Atlantic59]

Thank you @Doorcube for coming up with this shave game idea. And thank you @Atlantic59 for suggesting a good way to implement it.

It's just a simple game, but first round and it's already been helpful. I probably would have never used my Boker butterfly again, and I've been pretty lazy with trying new blades and soaps from my sampler packs.

Today I got an awesome shave with my Boker and G7Y. It far exceeded my expectations.

I’m getting my list together. I’ll play weekly. This seems like a fun idea. Thanks for coming up with it.

The more the merrier. It's turning out to be pretty fun so far. I like trying new combinations and rotating though things that I have not been using very much.

 

[Doorcube]

Like @Atlantic59 said, more the merrier. This Roulette table has no player limit.

If anyone is interested in serving as Croupier for the week, send me a message!

 

[Doorcube]

Spin! The next number is => 1520

 

[Eben Stone]

Changing my bid for the upcoming week.

FYI: here's how I'm participating with 14 soaps, 2 brushes, 3 razors, and 19 blades...

Soap (digit 1, even days)
0 Lather & Wood bay rum
1 SV Opuntia
2 TBS maca root
3 GFT sandalwood
4 GFT GFT
5 GFT Spanish leather
6 GFT coconut
7 GFT eucris
8 GFT almond
9 GFT rose

Soap (digit 1, odd days)
0 SJoL lavender and geranium
1 SJoL sandalwool and bergamont
2 SJoL black pepper and lime
3 SJoL cedar and sage
4 GFT sandalwood
5 GFT GFT
6 GFT Spanish leather
7 GFT coconut
8 GFT eucris
9 GFT almond

Brush (digit 2)
0 VDH
1 Muhle
2 VDH
3 Muhle
4 VDH
5 Muhle
6 VDH
7 Muhle
8 VDH
9 Muhle

Razor (digit 3)
0 Boker butterfly
1 Muhle R41
2 Muhle R89
3 Boker butterfly
4 Muhle R41
5 Muhle R89
6 Boker butterfly
7 Muhle R41
8 Muhle R89
9 Boker butterfly

Blades (digit 4, even days)
0 Polsilver Super Iridium
1 Bic Chrome Platinum
2 Gillette 7 o'clock black
3 Gillette 7 o'clock yellow
4 Gillette Nacet
5 Persona Med Prep
6 Persona Lab Blue
7 Perma Sharp Super
8 Gillette Silver Blue
9 Derby Premium

Blades (digit 4, odd days)
0 Wilkinson Sword
1 Derby Extra
2 Vidvut Supermax
3 Shark SS
4 Feather HS
5 Astra SP (sampler pack)
6 Dorco ST301
7 Astra SP (old)
8 Astra SP (new)
9 Gillette Silver Blue

 

[henrickd]

Big money big money!​
Slot	Lather	Brush	Razor	Blade
0	La Toja Shaving Stick	PAA Atomic Rocket	Gillette Aristocrat	BIC Chrome Platinum
1	Men’s Soap Co Himalaya	Simpson Chubby 3	Gillette Super Speed	7 O’Clock Super Platinum
2	Old Spice Cream (IN)	Razorock Plissoft	Gillette NEW Long Comb	Astra Superior Platinum
3	Proraso Green Cream	Ever-Ready 200	Gillette Fatboy	Astra Superior Stainless
4	Seaforth! Heather	Ever-Ready 3 Step	Leaf	Personna Lab Blue
5	TOBS Lavender Cream	PAA Atomic Rocket	RR CC Game Changer	Personna Med Prep
6	TOBS Sandalwood Soap	Simpson Chubby 3	RR OC Game Changer	Personna Israeli Red
7	PAA Home On The Range	Razorock Plissoft	Feather AS-D2	Gillette Platinum Blue
8	PAA Ciderhouse 5	Ever-Ready 200	EJ 3ONE6	Sputnik
9	PAA Future Fiction	Ever-Ready 3 Step	King C Gillette	Rapira Platinum LUX