Games and Dice Collections

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Having a collection of games means you also get a collection of die. For game designers, there is more to dice than six sides. From the top row we start with four sided dice, cannot remember where they come from. Next is the popular six sided dice. The black ones are cheating dice and weighted, the white with pips are normal and the ones with figures are average die, numbered 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5 – no 1s or 6s here. Then there are eight and ten sided dice. The bottom row begins with 12 then 20 sided dice and finally is a 100 sided dice. 100 sided dice never caught on, as aside from being hard to read you can get the same result using two, different coloured, 10 sided dice to produce a random percentage. In older game designs six sided dice are almost always found, but new designs like to ring the changes and add a bit of novelty with more or less sides on their dice.