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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Inkpaduta on 21 January 2023, 03:58:36 PM
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Going through a closet I found a 12 sided dice. But I have never seen a dice like this before.
There is one 3 with a circle around it and two fours with a square around each. Then there are
two of 5, 6 and 7 and finally one eight. What would this be used for?
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3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8
That's only 10 sides. What do the other two sides show? Not that I have any notion what the answer to your question is, I'm just intrigued by odd dice.
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I'm just intrigued by odd dice.
Asking a fellow clubmate how his game was going,
it wasn't going well. I offered the opinion that the
D6s were not favouring him. He sadly replied,
'They are NOT D6s, but cunningly disguised D ones!'
lol lol lol
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...as to the oddly numbered dice.
I do remember some cube dice in a game about American Football.
It was to give different probabilities for the game.
I therefore think yours might be something similar.
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If it's a white D12 then it's a par 4 dice from the golf dice game GOLO!
Andy
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Thanks for the answers so far. You could be right.
Weird though, I don't have GOLO or American Football games
and this dive was way back in a closet. Hmmm.
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If it is a GOLO die, then it's weighted to my golf game. An off chance of birdie and double-par, and weighted toward par, bogey, double-bogey and triple-bogey...they must have used my scorecards to develop their dice... :D
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Nobody has ever seen a dice.
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It's an accepted term in modern English for both singular and plural.
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But I thought dice were always even sided....! lol
okay, okay, very late to the party but I just couldn't resist
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Could you show us a picture of this mystery die?
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Going through a closet I found a 12 sided dice. But I have never seen a dice like this before.
There is one 3 with a circle around it and two fours with a square around each. Then there are
two of 5, 6 and 7 and finally one eight. What would this be used for?
Yeah, looks like it's from a GOLO dice set, as already pointed out previously:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71r7LJsJWtS._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
But I thought dice were always even sided....! lol
okay, okay, very late to the party but I just couldn't resist
Perhaps surprisingly, speciality odd-sided dice do exist - D13, D15, D17, etc. Once such example here (https://www.thediceshoponline.com/specialist-dice/d17-specialist-dice.html). 8)
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I suppose it might be useful as an average dice - I have a few D6ave (2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5 no 1 or 6). WRG ancient rules used D6ave for morale tests for regulars whilst barbarians used ordinary D6.
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Major,
That is it! That is the die.
Well, at some point I must of had GOLO.
I have no memory of that.
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Well, my question would be, what do you want to do with it now? It seems like there is a game waiting to be invented with that die...
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It seems like there is a game waiting to be invented with that die...
Oh that's a fairway to go. lol lol lol
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That's just par the course, really.
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"Well, at some point I must of had GOLO. I have no memory of that."
That is because you are unaware of the abilities of the poltergeist roaming about your domicile - so you don't need to recollect having a game you never had. Just be nice to the poltergeist! lol
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My first thought was that this was some sort of average die on steroids. So, someone needs to show us how to use it as an over-active average die (which means you may need two of them!). Step up you over-active mathematician-statisticians.
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BGG entry: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7270/golo
Could use it as a special effects die in an RPG or boardgame.