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Getting Schooled at dice.

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« on: <01-05-16/2037:23> »
So my granddaughter, age 10, comes up  and proclaims to me she has mastered the dice so that she can always roll a 7 or 11 on two six sided dice.

Amused by her statement, I told her alright let's see what you can do. 

She rolls the first time...  it's a 7.

Rolls a second time, it's an 11.

Now I am figuring she got some loaded dice from her uncle, who is a bit of a rogue.

So I ask if I can see the dice, which she hands over to me. 

They are both a clear red plastic so I can see right through them, so there is none of the usual inner holes/metal bits you might expect.

Rolling them in the hand and just doing a rough feel of the sides tells me they are not noticeably weighted to any one side or misshaped.

So I roll the dice... sure enough it comes up a 7 the first time followed by an 11 on the next throw.

I sit there pondering this trying to think of what I missed, all the while my granddaughter is giggling away at me.

Then as I really look at the dice, it hits me.

One die has all 5s on it's sides while the other die has just 2s and 6s. So 7 and 11 is ALL it can possibly roll.
I failed to notice it because I was just so used to looking at the TOP of the dice to read the numbers, the rest of the die is incidental.

So we both had a good laugh at silly grandpa.




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« Reply #1 on: <01-05-16/2100:19> »
So my granddaughter, age 10, comes up  and proclaims to me she has mastered the dice so that she can always roll a 7 or 11 on two six sided dice.

Amused by her statement, I told her alright let's see what you can do. 

She rolls the first time...  it's a 7.

Rolls a second time, it's an 11.

Now I am figuring she got some loaded dice from her uncle, who is a bit of a rogue.

So I ask if I can see the dice, which she hands over to me. 

They are both a clear red plastic so I can see right through them, so there is none of the usual inner holes/metal bits you might expect.

Rolling them in the hand and just doing a rough feel of the sides tells me they are not noticeably weighted to any one side or misshaped.

So I roll the dice... sure enough it comes up a 7 the first time followed by an 11 on the next throw.

I sit there pondering this trying to think of what I missed, all the while my granddaughter is giggling away at me.

Then as I really look at the dice, it hits me.

One die has all 5s on it's sides while the other die has just 2s and 6s. So 7 and 11 is ALL it can possibly roll.
I failed to notice it because I was just so used to looking at the TOP of the dice to read the numbers, the rest of the die is incidental.

So we both had a good laugh at silly grandpa.

I imagine you were very proud. Future shadowrunner?
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« Reply #2 on: <01-06-16/0952:07> »
Awesome!!  ;D

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« Reply #3 on: <01-06-16/2044:44> »
I imagine you were very proud. Future shadowrunner?

With a con job like that? Definitely a Face!

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« Reply #4 on: <01-06-16/2047:00> »
I imagine you were very proud. Future shadowrunner?

With a con job like that? Definitely a Face!
She kept her composure and didnt laugh till the end too...
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« Reply #5 on: <01-06-16/2139:15> »
I imagine you were very proud. Future shadowrunner?

With a con job like that? Definitely a Face!
She kept her composure and didnt laugh till the end too...
Well she certainly seems like Charisma 7 to me, but that may be grandparental bias. :P

And she does seem to try to negotiate a lot when we tell her to do things, so yeah it could be her calling. ;)
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