Three sided Dice..

[David E. Gervais]

Geo, I remember a set of dice I had with a three sided die.
It was a triangular tube with the rounded ends. (like the 4 sided die, the face sitting on the table/floor was the one that counted.)
fyi: it was not much bigger than the D6 cube die. just about 1x1x1.5.
I can draw you a pic if you would like.

Cheers!

P.S. I also seem to remember that my old 'Risk' game with the wooden pieces had some short triangular sticks for the armies.
One of those could easily be made into a three sided die.

Nuf said. Cheers again.

code:

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   .     .     .

.-----.-----.-----.

|     |     |     |

|1   2|3   1|2   3|

|     |     |     |

.-----.-----.-----.

   .     .     .





..connect the dots to make triangular tabs on the ends.

cut out the shape, then fold along the dash'd lines.

tape the edges and voila.



   ______

 /\      \

/__\______\ a 3 sided die. 

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hmmm, why does this post look wierd? the formating seems to be off.

[ December 23, 2003, 11:17: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[David E. Gervais]

Test.. yes, very wierd, the body of the text in my first post is up against the avatar pic, and this post is indented (normal)

gee, how'd I do that?

Aaah, I found the culprit.. I had too much text on one line in the 'code' section. I edited it onto several lines and all is well.

That was sureal for a few moments.

[ December 23, 2003, 11:18: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Slynky]

Yeah, I remember those Risk pieces. Can't remember if they counted as 10 armies or 5 (it's been so long).

[Loser]

(d6 mod 3) + 1
or
d6 div 3

I thought that's what you're supposed to use...

[ December 23, 2003, 12:35: Message edited by: Loser ]

[geoschmo]

That is very much like what I had in mind David, only with three sided pyramids on each end. As you have it it's possible (though probably unlikely) the die could land on one end or the other. With points on the ends of the proper height you eliminate that possibility.

I don't remember anything like that from Risk though. The Version I had was all roman numerals for armies. I's, III's, V's, and X's.

Geoschmo

[Gryphin]

Originally posted by Loser:
(d6 mod 3) + 1
or
d6 div 3

I thought that's what you're supposed to use...

Or in Excel:
=RAND()*(3-1)+1