[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
They have made 3 sided dice before, many years ago.

Do you have a link or something? I'd like to see it. This sort of stuff interests me greatly.

I am sure you are correct that someone somewhere has made a 3 sided die. If they have, I have not been able to find a record of it though. In fact all I have found over and over is the statement that a 3 sided die is impossible. Which in fact it is technically. My solution isn't really three sided, but only three "sides" can ever come up, and all three can come up with equal probability.

When discussions of this come up, most people usually discount any sort of shape that is not truely polyhedral, that is haveing all sides the same shape and equal size. This eliminates everything but d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20. I have seen d10 used fairly commonly, although I am not sure whether those are truely polyhedral.

Coming up with non-polyhedral solutions for a d3 is certainly doable, as I have shown here. I am sure there are other possible solutions. I found one that used 3 equal shapes that are convex oval looking things that are pointed at the ends.

Originally posted by Puke:
you would not have to mark the edges, you could number it like a D4. there could be two numbers on each side, each number 1, 2, 3, could appear twice. the number you roll would be the one facing right side up on both sides, rather than the one up side down.

Puke, Yes, that would work well. Good idea. That's actually kind of what I had in mind when I said mark the edges. I was thinking of the numbers printed on either side of the edges close to the top, maybe even with little arrows, although those wouldn't be strictly neccesary.

[ December 22, 2003, 19:46: Message edited by: geoschmo ]