Any tips on programming craps in labview?

Figuring out how to make the dice work is difficult enough, but I'm no LabVIEW expert. The goal is to make a working craps game with a case structure. One case for each of the 6 dice, plus a 7th case for default. Everything has to be in a while loop with a timer and a master stop button. There has to be a button for the user to start a new game anytime. A numeric display and logic should be used to determine the score of the dice. Any pointers???
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Hi Koen,
Christian Altenbach has this explained somewhere else (a lot of times) before...
It's about probability of your RND values: when rounding to next you get different probability for values at the "edge" compared to values in the "center"!
Example:
Multiplying RND values with 5 results in values between 0 and 5. Rounding those values "to next" will give "1"-"4" more often then "0"/"5" as the range [0-0.5] is smaller than the range [0.5-1.5]...
Using RoundDownwards will always use the same range [0-1], [1-2], ... for rounding and so will have the same probability for each dice!
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