Quote from: PrintCoins on February 02, 2013, 03:59:55 AM

When you "roll" you could use the current value of the s&p, an image of a tree in your back yard blowing in the wind or the static in the radio as a seed for random function and present it as something indepentently verifyable. Just be sure you have the most up to date seed otherwise your users might scoop you.

Depending on how you implement it, a tree blowing in the wind or radio static is not necessarily independently verifiable, since you'd have no way of knowing whether the site operator is reusing tree images or creating their own special winning static.

Basically, start off with some random data, hash it, and publish those hashes ahead of time in public (like the blockchain, or in the page itself like MyriadCoins.) Then use the random data and bet data (optional) as inputs to a cryptographically-strong hash during the game to get a randomly distributed output. Release the random data after some period of time after the game, so users can verify it.

The strength of this comes from the strength of the hash functions used (very good assuming lots of entropy in the random data) and the security of the random data up to the point where it is used (depends on your development skills, and hax0rs.)

Also, if you haven't yet, read up on how SatoshiDice implements the verification - it is a good writeup.

If you are talking about other games, like proving a sports bet was paid out fairly, that's a whole other topic...