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Make a Dice From Paper

Make a Dice From Paper
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Here's a simple and nerve braking tutorial on how to make your own dice from paper. Good luck.
 
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Step 1Gathering materials

Gathering materials
All you'll need for making your own dice is:
- paper;
- scissors;
- origami skills;
- hot glue gun (optional);
- marker.
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14 comments
May 2, 2012. 10:03 AMddslimsi says:
прикольно
Oct 3, 2011. 4:29 AMTricorvus says:
My brother and his friends made a much less attractive version of this in Junior high in 1978. This is a lovely, modern update. I'm telling him about this. And the comment from JesusFreke about how they're weighted to roll fairly. Of course, to be perfectly fair, with the tools they had at hand at the time, they did a real good job. Remember paper footballs, anyone else?
Oct 6, 2011. 8:34 PMGoodhart says:
Yeah, I remember paper footballs (triangular in shape) but they weren't around until after I was already in highschool :-)
Oct 5, 2011. 3:50 AMwcghha says:
lol nice idea ~~ so next time i can make one if i cannot find a real dice,thx a lot~
Oct 4, 2011. 6:05 AMcodongolev says:
I think you'll find an added bonus of these dice is that they can transform into roses. look up "magic rose box" on instructables.
Oct 2, 2011. 9:17 AMThePropNerds says:
So, is this based off Valerie Vann's magic rose cube?
Oct 3, 2011. 10:29 AMsmallenginetech says:
These were made in jr high in the 1980s when I was in school. They were like shown this trick by grandparents who were likely shown as kids. Nice indestructible though. Simple things that maybe somebody else does not know.
Oct 3, 2011. 7:23 AMboyoungssi says:
HI^^ I really like the video! it makes me more understand how to make it! thanks for uploading!
Sep 30, 2011. 11:18 AMJesusFreke says:
It would be interesting if you did a set of.. say 100-200 rolls with each dice and kept track of the results, to see how even the roll distribution is (in other words, how "fair" or "ideal" the dice are). They almost certainly won't be as good as real dice, but I would be curious to see how far they are off.
Oct 2, 2011. 9:10 AMtgrace1 says:
A simpler solution is to make 6 with a different number arrangement for each, if you randomly select which die you role then it negates any issues with bias.
Oct 2, 2011. 10:10 AMJesusFreke says:
Not necessarily. It would lessen the bias, but it wouldn't completely negate it. An ideal dice should have .16666 chance for each face. Let's say for example that we have 5 perfect dice and 1 flawed one, which has a .2 chance of getting a 6, and a .133333 chance of rolling a 1. Now, let's just look at a single face, let's say face 6. If you randomly choose one of the dice, you have 1/6 chance of choosing any particular dice. So you would take 1/6 times the chance of rolling a 6 for each die, and add them up - 5 * .166666/6 + .2/6 = .1722. Which is not the ideal .16666 that we want.
Oct 2, 2011. 11:55 AMtgrace1 says:
agreed, I should have clarified, to reasonable accuracy and due to design (as opposed to individual variations unique to each)
Oct 1, 2011. 10:40 PMteachnlearn! says:
This is really cool!

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