Error in kickstarter metal dice
May 4th, 2013 at 5:36:34 PM
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To continue from this thread, the dice I received from kickerstart had a strange defect, an error.
All the sides are correct numerically, in terms of being correctly oriented (1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 4 and 3 opposite) - but the 2-pip and 3-pip sides don't form the "V" when looking straight on at the 2-face and 3-face with the Ace-side pointing upwards. The 3-side points down from the upper left to the lower right, instead of from the top right to the lower left to form the V, (with the Ace side facing upwards.)
No "V" ! WTF. V-less dice!
Instead of looking like:
* - Ace upwards
\ / - two and three form a V
it looks like:
* - Ace upwards
\ \ - two and three are the same parallel slant, instead of coming together at the bottom.
Personally, I love this, a little precious in the sense of keeping a mis-struck coin. It was on a red aluminum set.
Anyone else have this with their kickerstarter dice?
All the sides are correct numerically, in terms of being correctly oriented (1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 4 and 3 opposite) - but the 2-pip and 3-pip sides don't form the "V" when looking straight on at the 2-face and 3-face with the Ace-side pointing upwards. The 3-side points down from the upper left to the lower right, instead of from the top right to the lower left to form the V, (with the Ace side facing upwards.)
No "V" ! WTF. V-less dice!
Instead of looking like:
* - Ace upwards
\ / - two and three form a V
it looks like:
* - Ace upwards
\ \ - two and three are the same parallel slant, instead of coming together at the bottom.
Personally, I love this, a little precious in the sense of keeping a mis-struck coin. It was on a red aluminum set.
Anyone else have this with their kickerstarter dice?
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes - Henry David Thoreau. Like Dealers' uniforms - Dan.
May 4th, 2013 at 6:49:30 PM
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All four of my aluminium ones look like that. I hadn't noticed.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
May 4th, 2013 at 7:08:33 PM
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Cess, I hadn't noticed this either, - until I put them on my desk with an ace pip facing up, and....no "V". At first, something didn't look right, ("Hmm....is something missing?") kind of like meeting an acquaintance who had shaved off his moustache, - only to be asked, "did you cut your hair, or lose weight?...."
I contacted her [Amber, of this kickerstarter project] via the "Leave a comment for Amber" section on her kickstarter page. She has 2,300+ pledges and $153,000 in orders, so far. And good for her. But for all of the effort she put into this project, things can slip on through. If she had designed a casino game where a subtle doozy had slipped on through, it would be different.
Again, I actually like this flaw in the dice, like a mole on Marilyn Monroe, as I described it to Aaron. I'm sure she'll fix it now for her subsequent batches, making the small imperfection that much more precious.
If such a "mis-orientation" got onto production casino dice, I wonder how many floormen, dealers and players would notice anything amiss or unusual. Aaron noticed it, but he's a dice afficionado. Actually, I do not believe gaming regs specify any requirement about a V being formed with the Ace-2-3 sides of a die....it is just a dice conventional practice, this topography. Loading such dice onto a game that are otherwise normal, would be like a silent "what's wrong with this picture, you have 60 seconds...."
Hope she [Amber] fixes it, but I'm keeping mine.
In fact, I'm seeing a movie with a friend in the business, and will ask Steve, "okay, fellow gaming guru, notice anything off with this die? I'd wish Mike Shackleford was present, - just so we can make a prop bet on it.
I contacted her [Amber, of this kickerstarter project] via the "Leave a comment for Amber" section on her kickstarter page. She has 2,300+ pledges and $153,000 in orders, so far. And good for her. But for all of the effort she put into this project, things can slip on through. If she had designed a casino game where a subtle doozy had slipped on through, it would be different.
Again, I actually like this flaw in the dice, like a mole on Marilyn Monroe, as I described it to Aaron. I'm sure she'll fix it now for her subsequent batches, making the small imperfection that much more precious.
If such a "mis-orientation" got onto production casino dice, I wonder how many floormen, dealers and players would notice anything amiss or unusual. Aaron noticed it, but he's a dice afficionado. Actually, I do not believe gaming regs specify any requirement about a V being formed with the Ace-2-3 sides of a die....it is just a dice conventional practice, this topography. Loading such dice onto a game that are otherwise normal, would be like a silent "what's wrong with this picture, you have 60 seconds...."
Hope she [Amber] fixes it, but I'm keeping mine.
In fact, I'm seeing a movie with a friend in the business, and will ask Steve, "okay, fellow gaming guru, notice anything off with this die? I'd wish Mike Shackleford was present, - just so we can make a prop bet on it.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes - Henry David Thoreau. Like Dealers' uniforms - Dan.
