A Review of Dice That Came with the White Castle

Reminds me of an encounter on BoardGameArena where the top ranked 7 Wonders Duel player complained there was a randomization bug (the Great Library never offered the science progress token). I thought he was raging (who hasn’t heard a poker player complain about bad luck) but turns out the developer checked the code and did in fact find this was a bug!

I found this fascinating, if true:

> The reason casino dice have such sharp edges is to get the to stop rolling faster with fewer tumbling. The more a die tumbles the more likely it will present any issues with it.

If I understand it correctly, the justification is this: if a die is biased (usually a heavier face), this bias will manifest with a higher chance the longer the die rolls. But if it stops abruptly, for whatever reason (bumping against the edge of the table, other dice, or having a shape that prevents longer roll time, like the casino dice) this bias will be less likely to manifest. Did I get this explanation right?

This reminds me of a D&D dice website that went into way too much detail about how they weren't fair and I remember photos of them stacked on top of each other to show the variations in manufacturing.

The thread following the review is pretty interesting too!