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These Dice Are Made from Civet Poop Coffee Beans

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Kopi Luwak coffee is made from beans that have passed through the digestive system of the Asian palm civet and been pooped out, where they’re collected to make the world’s most expensive coffee. And now you can own dice made with the beans that once briefly passed through a small mammal’s butt! What a time to be alive and a tabletop gamer!

Kopi Luwak Civet Poop Dice are handcrafted by Artisan Dice, and each features real kopi luwak coffee beans that have been collected from the fecal matter of civets. Of course, they’ve been thoroughly cleaned first because nobody wants to roll crappy dice.

A single D20 will set you back $54, or you can get a complete 10-piece polyhedral set for $237. So they’re not the cheapest dice, but neither is the coffee. And can you really put a price on dice that were once poop? I would argue not, and I would be 100% correct.

SPAM Yahtzee: Perfect For Playing With Your Food

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I know what you’re thinking, and I couldn’t agree more – how has it taken so long for someone to make a SPAM-themed dice game? Well, in better late than never news, The OP has just released $17 Yahtzee SPAM, a spiced ham-inspired version of the classic dice-rolling game. And just when you thought playing Yahtzee couldn’t be more appetizing!

The game’s dice include images of popular SPAM cuisine, including SPAM musubi, SPAM sushi rolls, SPAM ramen, SPAM kabobs, SPAM fries, and a classic grilled cheese & SPAM, along with the classic numbers. Is anybody else’s mouth-watering? I think my dentist must have given me too much Novocaine because SPAM-themed Yahtzee just isn’t doing it for me.

So, yeah, it’s Yahtzee with pictures of SPAM dishes on the dice. I’m not sure what else to tell you, except if you aren’t shaking the dice around in your mouth before a roll, you aren’t trying hard enough to get kicked out of game night. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic! Good lord — and even if we weren’t!” I imagine my hosts yelling at me before asking me to leave and never come back.

[via Thrillist]

These intricate ‘hollow’ dice are practically impossible to cheat with

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By removing as much material as possible, the Precision Play Dice offer the most bare-basic die design that can’t be rigged or weighted to cheat with.

Board-game enthusiast Tuson Lauby immediately sensed something was wrong when his opponent in a game of Warhammer kept using specific dice during important stages in the game. Noticing immediately that his fellow player was cheating by playing with weighted dice, Lauby’s mind began whirring and he started thinking about how he could design dice that were essentially cheat-proof. His first order of business was to remove as much material as he possibly could, resulting in dice with an extremely skeletal design and a central core that connected all the faces. An engineer by trade, Lauby perfected the design and even theorized that these new dice weren’t just cheat-proof, they were high-momentum too, rolling much longer and farther than regular solid dice.

Available in an entire set of multi-faceted geometric shapes, the Precision Play Signature Dice Series covers a wide variety of games, from traditional board games to even a game of Dungeons and Dragons that require polyhedral dice. Each individual die comes crafted from bronze (making them non-magnetic) and can additionally be finished with a plating of gold or rhodium if you’re ready to spend a bit of cash. The dice sport engraved numbers on each of their facets, finished with lacquer paint to get the numbers to stand out.

While being an absolute treat to look at and offering a unique anti-cheating property, the dice have a third trick up their sleeve too! The fact that they’re essentially hollow and skeletal allows them to ‘clink’ against each other and on your tabletop, creating an almost tuning fork-ish noise when rolled!

Designer: Tyson Lauby

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Cup Noodles Special Edition Yahtzee: Come On, Five Shrimps!

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Cup Noodles: without them, I probably would have starved to death in college. Those and $1 frozen store-brand personal pizzas saved my life. Not my grades though. No… not my grades. YAHTZEE: Cup Noodles is a special edition of Yahtzee that comes in a Cup Noodles stylized cup and features dice printed with its common ingredients, including carrots, corn, lime, shrimp, beef, and chicken. Personally, my favorite flavor is Hot & Spicy with Shrimp.

Despite the above photo, the set does NOT include any actual noodles. A shame, I know. Available on Amazon (affiliate link), playing a game will likely last longer than it takes me to eat a real Cup Noodles, my current record of which, at least according to people who witnessed it, was “disgustingly fast.” The key is slurping.

Will I be disqualified for putting all the dice in my mouth after I don’t roll what I want? My wife is nodding her head, yes, making it easy for me to decide who is and isn’t invited to game night this week. So, is there a rule set for one-player Yahtzee?

[via The Awesomer]

Make Your Own Light-Up D20 with 2,400 LEDs

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The brainchild of maker Greg Daville, this is an LED icosahedron crafted using a total of 2,400 LEDs, all placed individually by hand. Wow! I’m not sure if I would have had the patience for that, but I definitely don’t have the know-how to build an LED D20.

The panels of the oversized die can be programmed with different animations, and Greg mentions that in the future he may add wireless capabilities to sync the D20’s patterns and animations with other devices in the room. I smell an LED dance party soon!

So you’re not actually supposed to roll it, but I imagine you could use a random number generator to simulate a roll. That would be cool. Me? I don’t even have a D20, so whenever we play tabletop games at my house we have to roll three regular six-sided dice and flip a coin (heads is one, tails is two) to add up to 20. I think it goes without saying people don’t like playing games at my house.

Check out Greg’s blog for an in-depth read about the build, and if you’re interested in making on yourself Greg has made all the files available on Github here.

[via hackaday]

3D-Printed Dagger, Axe, and Crossbow D&D Dice Storage Boxes Are a Critical Hit

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What do you carry your gaming dice around in? I use a Ziploc bag, but now my dice smell like a tuna salad sandwich because reducing, reusing, and recycling is one of my passions. But maybe you’re fancy, maybe you require one of these dagger, axe, or crossbow dice storage boxes from Etsy shop GamePLA. That’s cool, but I do plan on using my rogue character to steal it after your adventuring party sets up camp one night.

Available in a variety of colors and finishes, the 3D-printed boxes range in price from $34 to $40 depending on options and hold a complete set of seven tabletop gaming dice. Obviously, they make the perfect dice carrier to let the rest of your tabletop gaming group know that you came to play, NOT play around.

The dagger and axe both have sheaths to hold the dice in place during transport, while the crossbow model’s bolt actually does the job. That’s a clever design. And you know how I feel about clever designs: I get angry at myself I didn’t come up with them first. Same goes for inventing Star Wars and Amazon.

Dungeons and Dragons Mimic Chest Dice Storage Box

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There’s nothing worse than a mimic chest. You think you’re about to score some sweet loot, but nope, you just get attacked instead. Now I have to roll to see how many teeth the cleric in my party has to remove from my rear.

Designed to look like an unassuming treasure chest from the outside (that’s how they get you!), this is the $39 Mimic Chest Dice Storage Box crafted and sold by Etsy shop ConjurerCoShop. The toothy box can hold up to four sets of polyhedral dice and includes a lock and key so nobody can roll your dice behind your back.

As far as dice storage boxes go, this is a really nice one and I think it would certainly add to a Dungeons and Dragons gaming experience. For reference, my current dice storage box is a quart-size Ziploc bag. Does it also have my lunch in it? Yes, yes it does.

A Dungeons & Dragons D12 Dice Mug: Let The Good Times Roll

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Looking for the perfect coffee mug to let your coworkers know you’re down to do a little tabletop campaigning on your lunch break? Well, now you’re in luck, thanks to this Dungeons & Dragons D12 coffee mug available from Firebox. Now roll to see if I should add a little Baileys to this coffee.

The officially-licensed mug (it has the Dungeons & Dragons logo on one side) costs $18 and holds approximately 16-ounces of your favorite beverage. Or your least favorite beverage if you really want to punish yourself in the morning. That does make you weird though.

Coffee: you have to drink it out of something, and, speaking from personal experience, your bare hands just aren’t the best option. Use a mug. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘But why? I have a perfectly good boot by the door,’ and that is just some sound logic that I can’t even begin to argue with.

Memento Mori D20 Dice Are Made from Human Bones

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When we die, some of us want to be cremated, while others want to be buried, and a select few people want their body parts to be used for medical science. But I’m not sure many people would raise their hands and say “yeah, please turn my bones into dice so someone can play D&D with them.”

Thanks to the guys at Artisan Dice, some long-lost souls have met exactly that fate with their macabre Memento Mori dice. Yes, these D20s are made from real human bones. Each one got its start as a human being whose skeleton was at some point used at a medical university. Apparently, these skeletons have a shelf life, and eventually aren’t usable anymore, so they get turned into other stuff like dice. Kids, stop playing with the bones so much, and maybe we won’t have to turn them into dice.

Each one is handmade and inlaid with numbers crafted from sterling silver, then set into a special Reliquary gaming case. While you won’t ever know who died so you can have your die, you will get the satisfaction of knowing that someone gave their life so you can roll their bones.