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Donald Smith
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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 01:16 Edited at: 29th Oct 2003 01:33
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I'm making a Concentration game where the Randomize command is choosing 12 of 65 various prizes. Once the prizes are chosen, they're put behind numbered tiles.

I'm also using the RND command to place the "randomly" chosen prizes behind "randomly" chosen numbered tiles?

When I restart the program after debugging, every three puzzles or so are repeated, meaning the same prizes are behind the same numbered tiles.

How can I make the Randomize really random?

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 02:16
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Since the computer is unable to generate truely random numbers, the trick most commonly use is to seed the generator with the system timer, like so:
randomize timer()

"That's not a bug, it's a feature!"
"Variables won't, constants aren't."
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