local t = {1, 2, 3, 4}
local r = Random.new(101)
r:Shuffle(t)
print(t) -- Gives a result of {1, 2, 3, 4} always
To fix it, we must avoid specifying a seed, or use the generator once:
local t = {1, 2, 3, 4}
local r = Random.new(101)
r:NextNumber()
r:Shuffle(t)
print(t) -- Gives a correctly shuffled result.
Using a seed of 102 gives 4, 2, 3, 1. It seems like 101 is just a Random seed that simply doesn’t Shuffle the array.
{1, 2, 3, 4} is one of the valid shuffles of the {1, 2, 3, 4} array which happens to be selected with that seed value.
Oh oops! My bad… I must have hallucinated checking other seeds haha
i feel like its kind of misleading for :shuffle() to not actually shuffle though.
may need to be a feature request!
It’s simply how randomness works. You have a 1/24 (?) chance for the table to be shuffled in that particular order. It shuffled, but it returned the same order, out of pure luck (if you can call it luck. It’s pseudo random, so it’s predictable randomness)
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