"What the ____ Die?" Topic

Saturday at my not so local game shop I picked up a d6 that has 1 pip on one face and 4 pips on each of the other faces.

I thought I was grabbing a regular d6. I assume this is some sort of novelty dice, but does anyone know anything about it?

I did once have a pair of dice where one was all 2s and the other all 5s.

I don't know, but the average is the same as a regular die.

1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21
1+4+4+4+4+4 = 21

21/6 = 3.5

andy

That's the "Dude, you're going to roll a LOT of fours" die.

Average dice were 2+3+3+4+4+5 = no 1's or 6's.

non-transitive dice

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No idea what it might be for, I've seen some oddly numbered dice used in car-racing games where you might choose a particular one to decide on car speed, with penalties for going too fast through corners and such.

They were not like you dice though.

For DBA players would you use such a dice rather than a normal d6 for an entire game?

David F Brown

TNE2300 – After reading that I'm still wondering what the point is….

Leidang – the point is that's it's a bar game: let your opponent choose a die, then you (knowing the secret) choose the "better" die and win most of the time.

One of a set of non-transitive dice looks like te one, mine is even olive with black pips.

I'll keep it with my other odd dice.