"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 04:58 PM 5/16/04, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
> > >
> > > At 04:01 PM 5/16/04, Julia Thompson wrote:
> > > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > At 01:59 PM 5/16/04, Julia Thompson wrote:
> > > > > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > At 12:10 PM 5/16/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > > > >In a message dated 5/16/2004 9:43:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> > > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Julia
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Forget Babies R Us, Toys R Us -- Insanity R Us, that's the way
> > > > to go
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >Yes, but under theoretical rules of super string super-symmetry,
> > > > there's
> > > > > > > >really no such thing as a reversed R.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > R, 2!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >D, 2!
> > > > >
> > > > > Wouldn't a d2 die be a coin?
> > > >
> > > >Or you could use a d4 or d6 and mark multiple faces with each number.
> > > >
> > > >I have a d3 that's just a d6 marked twice with each number. (I collect
> > > >interesting dice.)
> > >
> > > Do you have a d100?
> > >
> > > -- Ronn! :)
> >
> >Yes. It's orange.
> >
> >A friend of mine who had one described it as "a golf ball with
> >attitude". Those things take awhile to settle, and it's a little tricky
> >sometimes to figure out which face is *up*.
>
> Yes. Note that I didn't say it was all that \useful\. (And it is
> absolutely \worthless\ if you don't have a smooth, level, hard surface to
> roll it on.) Just wanted to make sure you had one in your
> collection. Mine is sort of the same brown color as a cardboard
> box. There wasn't a whole lot of variety available at that time, and I
> haven't seen them in a whole lot of places, although that may just reflect
> the demand for such things in places I have lived. (I got that one while
> living in Utah.)
>
> I have a set (actually, at least two sets, IIRC) of 3 d10s, numbered
> 00(10)90, 0(1)9, and 0/10(1/10)9/10. Occasionally when I'm about to hand
> back a test or something like that, I pull them out and ask if any of the
> students would like to roll the dice and take the sum of them rather than
> the actual grade they earned. So far, no one has taken me up on the offer,
> possibly because I usually demonstrate with a few rolls, and they see that
> they are just as likely to get a very low grade as to better their
> grade. FWIW, I got them at a teacher's supply store. I've noticed that
> they also have some with numbers and others with arithmetic operator
> symbols (+, -, x, /, =, and maybe < and >) for making up "flash card" type
> problems as well as some with letters and combinations of letters for
> creating words. Does your collection extend to dice like that, or only
> ones more or less suited to playing games?
The only dice with operands that I have are "fudge" dice, with +s and
-s.
I have some with dinosaurs on them, though! :)
I have a couple of doubling cubes from backgammon sets that were
rendered less than useful when some of the checkers were lost.
I have 3 dice numbered 0 through 5, with the 5 being a "Babylon 5" kind
of logo.
I have some round dice. Where each "face" is, inside there's a cup.
The cups are all open to a space in the middle. There's a little ball
in there and when it stablizes as the die is being rolled, it weights
down one side so the pips at the opposite end of the ball are on the
top. (I have 2 purple ones and 1 green one. The purple ones came in a
Christmas stocking. The green one had been in someone else's stocking,
can't remember if it was my husband or my sister who got it, and the
other green one got lost somewhere along the way.)
I have some elongated dice that look almost like little logs -- the
"rolling" is a little more literal than with some other dice. :)
Can't find the dinosaur dice right now -- not in the dice bag. But I
know I own them.
Julia
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