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Games that don't have standart dice shapes like a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20.

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1. Board Game: Owzthat [Average Rating:4.63 Unranked]
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a old game with 2 6 sided bar dice.
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2. Board Game: Put & Take Game [Average Rating:3.75 Unranked]
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Put and Take Spinners come in various designs.
 
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That's a dreidl, not a die.
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Strictly speaking, it's a teetotum. A dreidel would have Hebrew letters.
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And a dreidel only has 4 sides.
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bapadget wrote:
Strictly speaking, it's a teetotum. A dreidel would have Hebrew letters.

bookgnome wrote:
And a dreidel only has 4 sides.

Correct. A dreidel is a four sided teetotum with Hebrew letters.
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3. Board Game: Inuyasha: Das Action Würfelspiel [Average Rating:6.71 Unranked]
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Game has standard shape dice and some of those bar dice
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4. Board Game: Football Fever [Average Rating:7.67 Unranked]
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Football Fever has many unusual dice
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Awesome collection of dice. I will have to learn more of this game.
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5. Board Game: Dragon Dice [Average Rating:5.59 Overall Rank:5633]
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Dragon Dice the Magic Items have those wedge 4 sided dice.
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And they hurt like heck when you step on them. Better than caltrops!
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You're probably thinking of ordinary d4s.
The wedge-shaped ones are probably much easier on the sole.
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Keng Ho wrote:
You're probably thinking of ordinary d4s.
The wedge-shaped ones are probably much easier on the sole.


Yes, but d6 are easier on the soul.
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6. Board Game: Yut Nori [Average Rating:5.48 Overall Rank:6318]
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strange dice
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Actually, the picture you've selected is of the pieces (which in this set also double as jacks). The dice are long or short sticks which are flat on one end or convex on the other.
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7. Board Game: Pa-tol [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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8. Board Game: Peg Poker [Average Rating:5.96 Overall Rank:5642]
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9. GeekList: Don't lose those Dice!
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Also see this list.
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zathura meteor randomizer is a really crazy die, Thanks for adding.
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10. Board Game: Powerboats [Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:661]
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First game I thought of...
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Even this is in my eyes a standard d3, but it also is a really cool shape die. A bought me a set of those at the Spiel last year.

Thanks for adding
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Never seen one of these. Very cool!
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These are great fun to roll.

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11. Board Game: Monopoly: Millennium [Average Rating:5.32 Overall Rank:7127]
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Hasbro's patent infringement on Crystal Caste

Edit: Sometimes the newspaper link wants you to register. No hassle report at Purple Pawn.

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12. GeekList: My Favorite Randomizers!
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More weird dice.
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Roll them bones!
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13. Board Game: Belankai [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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14. Board Game: Jagun Fighters [Average Rating:4.61 Unranked]
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15. Board Game: Worm Up! [Average Rating:6.00 Overall Rank:2379]
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16. Board Game: Battleball [Average Rating:6.35 Overall Rank:1152]
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The football die
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17. Board Game: Rolled Bones [Average Rating:4.03 Unranked]
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The dice are special it self but the bone die has a special shape, too
 
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18. Board Game: Senet [Average Rating:5.89 Overall Rank:3948]
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Depending on how they land, the count is either 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5

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Actually it's 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6. There is no toss that gives you five.
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kimapesan wrote:
Actually it's 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6. There is no toss that gives you five.

It seems there are different versions of the game, and no clear consensus, with different reconstructed versions, according to this review and this article.
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19. Board Game: Ninja Versus Ninja [Average Rating:6.19 Overall Rank:1882]
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Block shaped 4 sided dice
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Those d4s pierced with a ninjato are just to die for! I really hope they start selling them separately from the game.
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Yokiboy wrote:
I really hope they start selling them separately from the game.


I would buy a set. Thanks for adding
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At first look, I was thinking that these dice harkened back to the old classic dreidels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreidel .
But I guess these weren't designed to be spun on their sword points.
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the ink starts to come off the corners at around 45 plays or so
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20. Board Game: Chinagold [Average Rating:6.21 Overall Rank:3577]
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China gold uses sticks for randomization, with different values on each side:



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21. Board Game: Fist of Dragonstones [Average Rating:6.22 Overall Rank:1351]
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You don't roll them, but you keep score with them.
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22. Board Game: Pass the Pigs [Average Rating:5.20 Overall Rank:7611]
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Yes, these are dice
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Yes, how could i forgot, I played those "Schweinerei" many times as child. Thanks for adding.
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What's so unusual about these? They're standard pig-shaped dice...
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23. Board Game: Chaturanga [Average Rating:6.26 Overall Rank:4417]
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Four-sided dice decide what can move in this early version of Chess.
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24. Board Game: Backgammon [Average Rating:6.50 Overall Rank:782]
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Well, not backgammon actually, but some 13th-century predecessors.

This page from Alfonso's Book of Games Shows a version of Tables with 7 points in each quandrant, and three 7-sided dice. The dice are pentagonal prisms, with the 6 and 7 on the pentagonal ends. Alfonso also described d7s that were 7-sided prisms.

With either 7-sider, since the die can land with a vertex up, use the face closest to the player, re-rolling if there is doubt.

This 7-player game also uses 3d7. (Alfonso the Wise had a thing for the number 7.)

The board shown was made by a friend for a 4-player tables game from the same source. The text is unclear, but I read it as using 3d7.
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I know a 7-sided die

Here a picture from Kevin Cooks Collection.


PS: Hope its okay that I use that pic, Kevin?
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Seven points per quadrant? It sure looks like six points per quadrant to me.
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Look more closely at the pieces on the 28-point board. Unlike a modern board, the "points" on the boards from Alfono's Book of Games are semi-circular cutouts along the sides of the board. Compare other boards from the same source.
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bapadget wrote:
Look more closely at the pieces on the 28-point board. Unlike a modern board, the "points" on the boards from Alfono's Book of Games are semi-circular cutouts along the sides of the board. Compare other boards from the same source.

There are no pieces in the picture, but it definitely looks like a 24 point board.
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Barticus88 wrote:

There are no pieces in the picture, but it definitely looks like a 24 point board.

The 28 point board to which I referred was this one (follow the link) from Alfonso's Book of Games, got the 24-point circular board depicted with the item post.
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25. Board Game: Trivial Pursuit: Star Wars Classic Trilogy Collector's Edition [Average Rating:5.52 Overall Rank:6528]
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This isn't a die. It's an electronic randomizer.
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Great list Ingo, can't wait to see more cool entries.
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Der Feuersalamander



(What do I do to put this in the right format, i. e. having a number & headline?)
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Thamos von Nostria wrote:
Der Feuersalamander


(What do I do to put this in the right format, i. e. having a number & headline?)


In the head post of this List you find a (Add Item) Link, that will allow you to add a game to this list.

(PS: Bei sonstigen Fragen einfach mal ne PM schicken)

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Dankeschön :-)
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[Grungy Nitpicking mode on]

The entries with non-dice randomizers being added would seem to me to be off-topic for this list.

[Gringy Nitpicking mode off]
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I have a d32 that I found at a sale 20+ years ago.
It is marked 0, 00, 1-30, I have no idea what it was used for.
Maybe a roulette type game?
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