/ Cory Doctorow / 1:57 am Tue Nov 23, 2010

Enormous dice collection full of irregular and improbable polyhedra


Dice collector Justin Michell has painstakingly cataloged his impressive collection of polyhedral probabilistic oddities, from a two-sided improbability to a nigh-spherical 120-sided number. Some of the best specimens are more traditional shapes, D10s and such, but made from fantastic materials and with wild decorative touches.

Justin Michell's Dice Collection (via Make)

 

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  1. I have massive gamer-envy right now.
    Also, thanks for reminding me that I don’t have time to game anymore. *sad*

    1. See the pencil dice a lot in stuff like anime and manga to help with multiple choice questions, usually for the, uh, less intelligent people :X

      But yea, that was a pretty nice collection he had there.

    2. Gee using pencils was pretty standard when I was playing ogre or other microgames in class back when I was in high school.

  3. As a fellow dice collector, I’m having a massive nerdgasm right now.

    pKp: We should hunt this man down and… compliment him on his impressive collection. Yes, that’s it.

  4. Not all the dice are regular (with identical faces), but as far as I can tell, all the possible regular dice are represented (barring some representations of the two infinite series of bipolar dice). I was quite impressed to see the 120-sided die and the pentagonal 60-sided die (which by the way has no clear opposite face, point or edge to the face it is resting on).

    This site shows what regular dice are possible (though sadly the old web article of mine it links to has been defunct for some time now): http://www.ac-noumea.nc/maths/polyhedr/dice_.htm

  5. When I and my group of players purchased the D&d 3rd Edition player´s handbook we were so excited that generated our first characters with four pencils acting as d6s.

    Awesome times.

    Now i´m the proud owner of a d30. I still have to found a game to use it…

    1. Now i´m the proud owner of a d30. I still have to found a game to use it…

      Clearly, the solution is to create one to fill the gap.

  8. I’ve known about his site for a while, and in fact I’ve seen him at Gen Con–wearing a giant d4 hat no less. It’s pretty amazing how prolific he is with his collection, and I wonder how he affords it, especially since he seems to be getting ALL of what Q-Workshop is putting out.

  11. I dig the new Lego dice, too, except that I cringe when the rulebooks keep referring to the singular die as a “dice.”

    And I’ll chime in, too, as another who used pencils as six-sided dice in junior high.

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