Saturday, June 27, 2009

D-Total – Eleven Dice in one

Wacky. I wonder how the probabilities are different compared to the natural dice that this replaces. [Link]
Dice! Dice! Dice! If you play games of any kind they are a constant requirement. Not only the usual six-sided kind, but three-sided, four-sided, ten-sided and twenty-sided as well. The D-Total is a twenty four-sided die approximately two inches in diameter. Each of the twenty-four faces contains seven numbers. The middle number on the face is a digit from one to twenty-four, your twenty-four sided die. This number in the center is also used to replicate a two-sided, a ten-sided and a twenty-sided die. For the two-sided die use the even numbers as the two and the odd numbers as the one. For the 10 sided die only use the numbers from one to twenty, re-rolling anything above 20, two number for each of the ten digits. Using the same numbers for the twenty-sided die re-rolling numbers above 20.
Some dice this emulates will be more accurate than others, I think.
D3 - Numbers duplicated 8 times
D4 - Numbers duplicated 6 times
D6 - Numbers duplicated 4 times
D8 - Numbers duplicated 3 times
D10 - Numbers duplicated 2 times with 4 left over
D12 - Numbers duplicated 2 times
D20 - Numbers duplicated 1 time with 4 left over
The D10 and D20 seem to be the odd dice out.

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