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Doesn't hurt as bad as a d4
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aka really short cylinders
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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 This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces.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.
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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.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.
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The picture is of a d4. Dice are measured counting the flats (and therefore possible number of different results) not mathematically defined "sides".
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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.This has 4 possible faces it can land on, though. It's a D6 with two sides rounded to make them impossible to land on.
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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.
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a two sided die is called a coin
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped sideA side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
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A standard US nickel, yes. I prefer better odds than that… [Thick Nickels](https://thick-coins.net/)This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. It loaded nearly instantly on my phone.
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This has 4 possible faces it can land on, though. It's a D6 with two sides rounded to make them impossible to land on.
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This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. It loaded nearly instantly on my phone.
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Thanks, not sure why my comment is not showing as deleted to you. I deleted it just after posting after realizing I misread what the previous post was saying.
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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.I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge. Then told us to ignore that possibility.
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
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A side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
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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.
