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📣 geoduck14

Market Demand for Balanced Dice


Hi HN! I had a joke idea, that morphed into something that might be practical - but I need some help validating the idea. Who here would be interested in the following:

Some people take games seriously and they want to make sure their dice are fair and balanced. I think they would want certified fair dice. Certifican could be accompanied by a video showing 1000 (or 10k or whatever) roles and statistical summary that all numbers are equally likely.

The rolls could be done via Robot, and unfair dice could be sold via as "normal" dice under a different brand to recoup cost or recycled.


  👤 Someone Accepted Answer ✓
> and unfair dice could be sold via as "normal" dice under a different brand to recoup cost

I think the main problem isn’t producing fair dice, but preventing people from switching them for unfair ones.

Because of that, I don’t think selling dice that look just like your fair dice, but aren’t fair is a good idea.


👤 aurizon
Vegas buys millions of sets of balanced dice every year, so do all the casinos in TROW = a cut throat competitive business.

What you need are WiFi dice that pass all tests, and when used can be 'adjusted' Maybe that is why dice are transparent as well?


👤 datarage
I could see it being a thing. There are lots of different shapes of die and they can easily be tampered with. Could even make them required in casinos and such to prove the casino isn't cheating.

👤 uberman
The way "serious" gamers find balanced dice is to float them in salt water. Even more serious gamers same the unbalanced ones for "reasons"

👤 MattGaiser
Wouldn't it be a serious challenge to tie the proof to the die itself and prove that it had not been altered later?