Buckshot Roulette – How to Determine the Initial Result (Double or Nothing)

Ever ponder why you can sometimes only double 20K while others allow you to double 50K? Like, what’s the deal? This guide helps to clarify it.

Guide to Determine the Initial Result

So what determines it?

The main factor in determining how much cash you gain, at least in Double or Nothing mode (no clue if story mode works the same), is surprisingly not how many damage you take or how many beer you drink.

It’s just time elapsed.

Calculations

The exact formula for the initial run is as follows:

  • s = 70000 – ((t / 600) * 40000)
  • if s < 10 then s = 10
  • s : score (int)
  • t : time in seconds (float)

So, basically, with a starting value of $70,000, you lose $46.67 per second.

I don’t know the specifics on like, when exactly this counter starts/stops at certain points, what I do know is that this is a pretty reliable way to predict what initial score you’ll get to double!

It caps off at ~17m28s, because the lowest the game will give you is 10, would’ve been funny if it actually went to 0 but I get why, since you can’t really double 0.

For point of reference:

Time Elapsed – Initial Score

  • 0:01 – 69,933
  • 0:30 – 68,000
  • 1:00 – 66,000
  • 5:00 – 50,000
  • 7:00 – 42,000
  • 10:00 – 30,000
  • 15:00 – 10,000
  • 17:28 + – 10

After the initial scoring, subsequent rounds is just doubling as expected.

  • s = p * 2
  • p : previous score (int)
  • s : score (int)

Implications

What this means is that you need to become a “speedrunner” in the first round to maximise your initial points that you can double.

Consider the time cost of using items carefully and think quickly.

And if you’re tryna go for that 1000K achievement, maybe consider resetting if you know you spent a lot of time already.

Egor Opleuha
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Egor Opleuha, also known as Juzzzie, is the Editor-in-Chief of Gameplay Tips. He is a writer with more than 12 years of experience in writing and editing online content. His favorite game was and still is the third part of the legendary Heroes of Might and Magic saga. He prefers to spend all his free time playing retro games and new indie games.

1 Comment

  1. just saying, you can figure out the minimum amount of money needed in the first cycle needed (x) to get 1000k in y rounds with the formula x * 2^y = 1000000 and substitute y with the amount of rounds you want (for example for 4 rounds you would get x * 2^4 = 1000000, with a bit of solving you see x comes to 62500. Same with 5 rounds which had x come to 31250)

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