Dice. Useful, collectable, and fun.
mctrivia
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Recently I have learned that lots of people collect dice. this has gotten me into drawing unique dice like these ones
it has also gotten me interested in collecting some cool ones. anyone else find dice cool? have any cool ones in your collection?
If you want to see what i have made so far you can see them at my shapeways shop
it has also gotten me interested in collecting some cool ones. anyone else find dice cool? have any cool ones in your collection?
If you want to see what i have made so far you can see them at my shapeways shop
Comments
-Phil
I spent a couple of years playing D&D in college and so I'm aware of the usual odd dice, all the pythagorean solids of course and percentile dice. But there is something about casino dice that for all their boring six-sided normalcy seems oddly compelling, probably because I work in a regulated industry myself and so the whole obsession with their weight, trueness, accuracy, transparency so you can tell they haven't been slugged, they're serially numbered, they're only used for a little while so they won't wear untrue and then once the casino is done with them you can buy them in the gift shop -- but only after they've been properly ruined so you can't try to slip them into a live game again.
Back when I frequented the casinos my favorite recreation game was craps, since your negative EV is limited even if you're drunk and playing stupid, and it's very social and flamboyant. But when your friend and a few of his friends make $2 million or so off the 1 percent edge of card counting, watching the casino do that to you even for chump change becomes a lot less fun. I still play once in awhile, mainly if I find myself on vacation in a place with a casino where I've never played before, but it's bittersweet. I really hardly care if I win or lose, it's more about the odd rhythm of the game.
I totally understand your bittersweet relationship with craps. There's no way to gain any kind of advantage, but it's a whole lot more fun than blackjack. I used to count cards and have been kicked out of more than one casino in both Reno and Carson City for doing so. (I guess I didn't disguise it very well.) But counting cards is boring, soul-sucking drudgery. Frankly, I don't even like to gamble at all anymore. When I take my 93-year-old dad, who's a total slot junkie, to the Indian casinos here in Washington, I always bring a crossword puzzle along to work while he's feeding the penny machines.
mctrivia,
Somewhere (and it's driving me crazy because I can't find it to take a picture of it), I have the complement to your six-slot roulette wheel. It's a 38-sided clear glass "die", complete with 0 and 00, given to me by a great aunt when I was a kid. I've saved it all these years, and now I'm going nuts trying to remember where I put it.
-Phil