Odd dice question

[Inkpaduta]

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?

[Red Orc]

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.

[has.been]

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!'
 

[has.been]

...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.

[Ampersand Andy]

If it's a white D12 then it's a par 4 dice from the golf dice game GOLO!

Andy

[Inkpaduta]

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.

[CapnJim]

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...

[FierceKitty]

Nobody has ever seen a dice.

[Elbows]

It's an accepted term in modern English for both singular and plural.

[FifteensAway]

But I thought dice were always even sided....!   

okay, okay, very late to the party but I just couldn't resist 

[tikitang]

Could you show us a picture of this mystery die?

[Major_Gilbear]

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:

But I thought dice were always even sided....!   

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. 

[fastolfrus]

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.
 

[Inkpaduta]

Major,

That is it! That is the die.
Well, at some point I must of had GOLO.
I have no memory of that.

[Red Orc]

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...