Introducing DangChance.com !

KevinTheGoose
DANGPACKS
Published in
3 min readApr 26, 2023
Original art by b0mann featuring the Average Doubter holding Jar of Pace art and surrounded by opened card packs.
Custom art from the amazing artist ‘b0mann’ created specifically for dangchance.com

Would you believe me if I told you that you are more likely to have your application to be an astronaut accepted by NASA than pulling a pack on dangpacks.com with 2 full art cards in it? How about if I told you that you were more likely to crack an egg with two yolks in it than it would be for you to watch a random attempt from Dan on Malenia and have it be his winning attempt?

Over the past 3 years Dan Gheesling has been grinding away at some of the hardest challenges that modern gaming has to offer. The first of which was earning all 637 of the Binding of Isaac’s achievements. From there Dan was hooked on the dopamine that only these hardcore challenges could provide.

He went on to beat Elden Ring with no upgrades to his vigor stat, which means he had the same amount of ealth points at the end of the game, as he did from the start. He went on to beat all 182 bosses in grueling and impressive fashion.

Next up was completing Cuphead and its new DLC titled ‘The Delicious Last Course” with a perfect rating on every single boss. Most recently he beat Spelunky 2’s hardest challenge, 7–99, which required completing dozens of specific actions in the game to get to its end game level called the Cosmic Ocean. Once there, Dan has to beat 99 randomly generated levels in a row, all of which which needed to be beat within 3 minutes.

An image comparing Dan’s likelihood of beating Malenia without vig vs the odds of cracking open an egg with two yokes.
You are more 3 times more likely to crack and egg with 2 yolks in it (1 out of every 1000 eggs) then Dan ended up having to beat Malenia (1 victory in 3000) attempts

Thanks to some excellent record keeping from community members such as j_Wilco, AeroEagle333, alexcantscull, and 123aaa789 we have detailed statistics on these challenge runs, also known as Pace Picante attempts in Dan Gheesling’s community. In 123aaa789’s most recent record keeping of Spelunky 2 we have statistics even down to every individual run Dan made in his attempt to complete this challenge.

Thanks to the hard work of these members, and the programming wizardry of gtTuna, we now have a new, fun, and exciting way to relive these epic Pace Picante runs and test your knowledge.

Dangchance.com is an interactive experience where you can compare the statistics from each of these runs, and has you guess which event it is displaying had a higher chance of occurring. We have combined the statistics from these pace sheets, along with some interesting estimated statistics about DangPacks, and even tossed some real-world events in to make a unique game that is bound to surprise you at every corner.

When opening DangChance.com for the first time you will see two randomly generated events. If you think the 2nd one is more likely to have occurred, then you would click the green up arrow or the red arrow if you think it was less likely.

A screen shot from the DangChance game.
An example of a question on dangchance.com

Do you think you know the most about Pace, Packs, and everything in between? Come join us and have great time. Leave a comment with your high score, let's find out how high the 596 can push these numbers!

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