What does a one sided dice look like?

[Mr Muffin]

I'd say a sphere wouldn't work. A dice only has its face written once, so if the sphere rolled so the '1' was face down it wouldn't be 1 rolled. similarly you could easily write a 2 on the other side and it would almost always be possible to tell which had been rolled, a 1 or a 2.

Does it have to have it's face only written once? If not what about if it had a bunch of ones written all over the sphere?

[Leodip]

d3 up to d120.

You don't have any coins?

Not after buying all those dice: have any idea how much they cost?

[Submachine]

I know about a 2-sided dice, which has rounded planes:



Following this logic, a sphere might be considered a "1-sided dice".

(I say this without looking at the previous comments, so this idea might have been mentioned or debunked earlier.)

[InsignificantWeeaboo]

Traditionally, I've seen it described simply as a sphere.

source: someone who owns dice from d3 up to d120.

Ok, I'm actually curious, what exactly does the d3 look like?

[CactusKing]

Traditionally, I've seen it described simply as a sphere.

source: someone who owns dice from d3 up to d120.

Ok, I'm actually curious, what exactly does the d3 look like?

[Wyand]

You can use a d6 die for a lot of occasions.

AS A D2: d6 [1-3] = d2 [1], d6 [4-6] = d2 [2];
AS A D3: d6 [1-2] = d3 [1], d6 [3-4] = d3 [2], d2: d6 [5-6] = d3 [3];
AS A D5: d6 [1-5] = d5 [1-5], d6 [6] = reroll.

A coin is not a perfect example for d2, because there is a small chance that it lands on its edge.

The closest thing for d1 I think is the "Gömböc" (rough translation from hungarian would be "sphery" or "spherette"). It has one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. (Of course, it is not a perfect d1, since because of the unstable point, but the chances are really small for "rolling" that.)

[Afdarenty]

Put the number 1 on one side of a piece of toast, then butter the other side.

It'll land with the 1 showing every time. One sided die? I think so.

[Wyand]

khm khm

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/off-topic-discussions/what-does-a-one-sided-dice-look-like/msg1276496/#msg1276496

[Afdarenty]

khm khm

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/off-topic-discussions/what-does-a-one-sided-dice-look-like/msg1276496/#msg1276496

Damn, I knew I should have gone with the cat

[DoctorC]

We have an idea - you know how some wavelengths or color and sound are too low for us to process? Like infra-red is too low to be perceived as a color for humans and some sound frequencies are too low for us to pick up. What if 1-sided dice is just too low for three-dimensional humans to perceive, so our brains are hard-wired from recoiling from that idea same way we're recoiling from the idea of earth being round or Life being an element?

[Mr Muffin]

same way we're recoiling from the idea of earth being round

Who's we?

[CactusKing]

We have an idea - you know how some wavelengths or color and sound are too low for us to process? Like infra-red is too low to be perceived as a color for humans and some sound frequencies are too low for us to pick up. What if 1-sided dice is just too low for three-dimensional humans to perceive, so our brains are hard-wired from recoiling from that idea same way we're recoiling from the idea of earth being round or Life being an element?

At least we know life is round and earth is an element