Or you know, a coin.
Coins are just really unbalanced three-sided dice.
The odds of a US nickel landing on its edge is about 1 in 6000. If there are any other country’s coins thicker the odds would probably get better.
thank you for this blessed website in trying times
The old UK £1 was similar in size but twice as thick. It’s now 12-sided but not sure how that impacts the odds.
I know there’s a way to figure that out, but I have no idea where to start. So I’m going with 1 in 3000, plus or minus 42.
Well, but it also has to stay on its edge, and that’s a lot less likely…
That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
Not if it’s a thnickel.
Thanks, I hate it.
Rare coin flip: Success for every roll over the next hour of gameplay.
It should come with some bizarre consequence, too. If it were the Oregon Trail game, there should be a tiny chance that the player finds an ancient artifact that glows and hums when touched. An alien ship swoops in and abducts the party, forcing them to join the crew. From there on, it’s a space pirate game with zero explanation why and no references in the product literature. Also, customer service pretends not to know about it, if contacted.
I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge.
Then told us to ignore that possibility.
Even not considering that, they still aren’t 50-50 odds. The stamped printing on both sides throws off the balance just enough to bias one side over the other.
aka really short cylinders
Don’t be ridiculous, obviously you roll a d20, subtract one, and then count how many digits the result has
Roll a d100, if it is odd 1, 2 if even
I like how you’d be rolling two d10’s, and then completely ignoring one of them.
It keeps the statisticians happy
Too expensive.
This was my thought.
Mfers be out here debating whether the thing depicted is actually a “two sided” dice, meanwhile coins just be chillin over there getting ignored.
Y’all be trippin.
I need to get one of these sometime
a two sided die is called a coin
Yup, my “d2” in my dice bag is a silver half dollar. Still call it my d2 though.
Came here to say this
in my day…
The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
An ideal coin is perfectly flat with no thickness.
Sir, what who describe looks more like a piece of paper than a coin.
Ideal coins are inflexible.
Ok, so a thin layer of adamantium is an ideal coin, but not a tiny disk of metallic alloy engraved with pictures, texts and values ! 📝
Well, an ideal cow is a perfect sphere, so.
then use a freaking fortune fish
every other die has sides that aren’t counted if you’re doing that.
Looks 4-sided to me
Agreed, but also weird as aren’t d4 made from 4 triangles?
Usually, yes. This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces. As such you’ve got four flat faces that the die can actually stop on. If you ignore the curved parts but consider all of the flats to be separate faces, it’s a d4. If you consider two flats connected by a curve to be a single face altogether, it’s a d2.
This is correct. It’s a d4 that’s just as cleanly a d4 as a regular d4 with rounded corners. Both have parts that don’t belong to the sides, since there’s no defined outcome where the dice comes to rest on one of the rounded non-side parts.
Fuck caltrop d4s, all my homies hate caltrop d4s (it’s me, I’m all the homies)
One set of my dice have very hard/straight/flat edges… The fucking 4 sided has stabbed me many times, but once it went right under my finger nail and drew blood 😫
deleted by creator
That’s a weird looking coin
The picture is of a d4. Dice are measured counting the flats (and therefore possible number of different results) not mathematically defined “sides”.
No, dN means there are N different outcomes. Does not matter if they are flat or anything. Cube with two of each number from 1 to 3 is a d3.
deleted by creator
It has two outcomes, hence is a d2
Thanks, not sure why my comment is not showing as deleted to you. I deleted it just after posting after realizing I misread what the previous post was saying.
If you wanna get loosey-goosey with it and count the curved bit as a result, its still just a d6 lmao
this is four sides??
I’ve seen this shape uses as a D4. Nothing cursed about it. About as threatening to me as a Labrador puppy.
It’s four-sided, not two-sided. If that one counts, you can also just use a regular six-sided one and just put three ‘ones’ and three ‘twos’ on it.
This die can only ever land on two distinct sides so it has two sides.
Incorrect. It can land on two different sides. Or it can roll off the table and under something, leaving you in a state of limbo.
It has only 1 corner, and 2 surfaces, making it 2 sided. The 2 sides just happen to be curved
Ah, dice lawyering.
All dice are quantum dice!
It has two sides. They’re curved, and it doesn’t stay on the curve part, so you can effectively use it as a d4, but it’s still only two-sided.
Sort of like how you can flip a Mobius strip like a coin and it will land one of two ways, but it still only has one side.
It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
There are 4 stable orientations and 2 unstable equilibria
define ‘side’.
How many sides on a ball?
Inside, outside, and, depending on the ball, offsides.
Fair point. A ball has either one or infinite sides from my perspective.
