Or you know, a coin.
Coins are just really unbalanced three-sided dice.
The odds of a US nickel landing on its edge is about 1 in 6000. If there are any other country’s coins thicker the odds would probably get better.
thickles
Thnickles
Whatever you call them, people will respect you more when you use them.
thank you for this blessed website in trying times
The old UK £1 was similar in size but twice as thick. It’s now 12-sided but not sure how that impacts the odds.
I know there’s a way to figure that out, but I have no idea where to start. So I’m going with 1 in 3000, plus or minus 42.
Well, but it also has to stay on its edge, and that’s a lot less likely…
That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
Not if it’s a thnickel.
Thanks, I hate it.
Rare coin flip: Success for every roll over the next hour of gameplay.
It should come with some bizarre consequence, too. If it were the Oregon Trail game, there should be a tiny chance that the player finds an ancient artifact that glows and hums when touched. An alien ship swoops in and abducts the party, forcing them to join the crew. From there on, it’s a space pirate game with zero explanation why and no references in the product literature. Also, customer service pretends not to know about it, if contacted.
Even not considering that, they still aren’t 50-50 odds. The stamped printing on both sides throws off the balance just enough to bias one side over the other.
aka really short cylinders
Don’t be ridiculous, obviously you roll a d20, subtract one, and then count how many digits the result has
Roll a d100, if it is odd 1, 2 if even
I like how you’d be rolling two d10’s, and then completely ignoring one of them.
It keeps the statisticians happy
Too expensive.
This was my thought.
Mfers be out here debating whether the thing depicted is actually a “two sided” dice, meanwhile coins just be chillin over there getting ignored.
Y’all be trippin.
I need to get one of these sometime
Looks 4-sided to me
Agreed, but also weird as aren’t d4 made from 4 triangles?
Usually, yes. This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces. As such you’ve got four flat faces that the die can actually stop on. If you ignore the curved parts but consider all of the flats to be separate faces, it’s a d4. If you consider two flats connected by a curve to be a single face altogether, it’s a d2.
Fuck caltrop d4s, all my homies hate caltrop d4s (it’s me, I’m all the homies)
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This gave me an idea for a gimmick die. Transparent die filled with dark liquid. The exterior of the die has the usual numbers in white lettering. Inside the die, there is a smaller cork die that rises like a magic 8ball. It’s 2d(x) in 1. Interesting for tension building, if nothing else.
Edit: looked it up and I’m not original, and they’re largely as bad as I thought they’d be
I’m really surprised that this does not seem to be an existing thing for d10s specifically. I can find nested d10s and there are heaps of liquid core dice, but apparently none that combine those two ideas
Magic N ball
One of my overdue projects is to disassemble a magic 8 ball, remove the dice from it and make a digital magic 8 ball. I plan to bequeath the removed “dice” to a DM I know.
Make sure to wear long gloves and short sleeves. The dye in that water is strong. I was purple for days after cracking an 8ball and people kept asking how I got hurt.
I’m a bit disappointed that many of these n-sided dice are not isohedral, despite isohedral polyhedra existing for many of these values of n.
The weirdly shaped ones probably sell better. Which would you pick up in a store?
Oh, I still bought the full set, but I tried to get isohedral dice whenever possible.
a two sided die is called a coin
That’s a weird looking coin
I’ve seen this shape uses as a D4. Nothing cursed about it. About as threatening to me as a Labrador puppy.
this is four sides??
The picture is of a d4. Dice are measured counting the flats (and therefore possible number of different results) not mathematically defined “sides”.
No, dN means there are N different outcomes. Does not matter if they are flat or anything. Cube with two of each number from 1 to 3 is a d3.
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If you wanna get loosey-goosey with it and count the curved bit as a result, its still just a d6 lmao
It’s four-sided, not two-sided. If that one counts, you can also just use a regular six-sided one and just put three ‘ones’ and three ‘twos’ on it.
This die can only ever land on two distinct sides so it has two sides.
Incorrect. It can land on two different sides. Or it can roll off the table and under something, leaving you in a state of limbo.
It has only 1 corner, and 2 surfaces, making it 2 sided. The 2 sides just happen to be curved
Ah, dice lawyering.
1 corner, and 2 surfaces
Doesn’t it have 0 corners, 1 edge, and 2 surfaces (faces)?
Ah yeah, you’re right. I mixed the words for edges and corners
All dice are quantum dice!
It has two sides. They’re curved, and it doesn’t stay on the curve part, so you can effectively use it as a d4, but it’s still only two-sided.
Sort of like how you can flip a Mobius strip like a coin and it will land one of two ways, but it still only has one side.
It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
define ‘side’.
How many sides on a ball?
Inside, outside, and, depending on the ball, offsides.
Fair point. A ball has either one or infinite sides from my perspective.
At first glance I thought this was an AI generated picture of a roll of toilet paper…
It’s called a chance cube and it’s essential on tatooine
4 sided.
