Quote from: kTimesG on Today at 09:25:36 PM

Quote from: smracer on Today at 08:59:36 PM

If 100,000 people were independently running RCkangaroo searching for Puzzle 135 with a 4090 each, would theoretically 1 person get lucky and find the key earlier or does RCkangaroo not work that way?

Absolutely not. Kangaroo isn't a lottery contest (like a hash brute force search is). It's only reason of being more and more likely to find a solution after some number of operations is because it uses the output of those some number of operations. 100.000 separate guys will need to each compute for themselves those ops before ever reaching equal odds. Not a one-ticket lottery. at all

Some may say this is wrong and anyone can hit the key from the first try.

Totally agree. Just as feasible as having that one-legged unicorn riding a monocycle, on a tight rope, over a volcano, blind-folded, with meteors popping off.

You out here talkin’ ‘bout unicorns and volcanoes like Kangaroo’s some kinda mystical grindfest.

Meanwhile, my dude out here solvin’ keys on a **Pentium 1** running Python, sippin’ on **magic circle** juice like it’s a Sunday brunch.

Ever heard of **parallel daydreaming**? Throw enough **lucky hamsters** on wheel-powered GPUs (or, y’know, a toaster with delusions of grandeur) and watch ‘em yeet the key **first try**. ‘Not a lottery’?

Tell that to the **dude who won with a single op** while you were still writing thesis papers on ‘why kangaroos hate fun’. 😆