At 02:49 PM 12/6/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
who once used an 8-sider to determine sides for a Trivial Pursuit game
I have a pair of 10-sided dice (one labelled 0-9, the other 00-90) that I keep in a pocket in my grade book. Sometimes, e.g., when I am giving back a test that everyone complained was too hard, I pull them out and offer the members of the class a choice: you can have the grade you made on the test, or you can roll the dice and take the total as your grade.
So far, everyone has decided to take the grade they made rather than taking a chance on the dice . . .
(FWIW, I bought them not at a gaming store but at a teachers' supply store.)
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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