My dice collection - General a few thousand dice tag:dice.jimsmaps.net,2005:ee5f7b2816e212f2c584b7b3d889811e/general Textpattern 2024-01-05T16:44:08+00:00 Flue Wally https://dice.jimsmaps.net/ Flue Wally 2024-01-05T16:29:07+00:00 2024-01-05T16:29:07+00:00 Welcome to my dice site ! tag:dice.jimsmaps.net,2010-04-04:ee5f7b2816e212f2c584b7b3d889811e/c2e5bc54ec9d6b8e49650a099dc6de08 This is my Dice Collection site. I have about 2500 to 3000 dice.


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Flue Wally 2015-02-17T23:34:44+00:00 2023-11-19T19:32:07+00:00 FAQ tag:dice.jimsmaps.net,2010-03-29:ee5f7b2816e212f2c584b7b3d889811e/450a7c38653750e4cd9c96c4b1a01b4a Welcome to my new dice site !

Note that I don’t buy, sell, nor trade anything.

Someone wanted to know where to buy dice. I have bought dice in game stores, tourist shops near the beach, relatives have bought them for me as holiday and birthday gifts.


Why do my d4s look upside down ? I scanned them. They are sitting flat on the scanner glass.


The 1.75 inch dice I found is not the largest plastic dice made, I found some that are 95 mm/3.7 inches. That is larger than a softball… they cost 56 dollars. Each.

I now have, in 2006, a pair of plush dice. D6s, around 10-12 inches across.

I have plush d10 and a pair of plush s20s. 2007/2008.

Note that there are folding paper dice boxes of 6, 12, and 18 inches across. Dice balloons and candle, etc. in party favors.

I didn’t realize folks collected dice, just to collect them. Many of my dice are ones I bought back years ago from Gamescience when they had a store. Since then I’ve bought dice from stores still in business made by Chessex, Armoury, and Koplow. Sadly, Koplow doesn’t sell to folks retail, only stores. There are a number of Koplow dice I would like to buy. Most of the web pages I have found that have Koplow dice only have small partial listings, nowhere near the number of dice listed on Koplow’s pages… argh.

I have over 2000 dice, I’m not sure of the exact amount. I was rather disconcerted to find a page where someone says they have over 35,000 dice ! The storage of that many dice could be a bit of a problem. For me it would be, may not be for that collector.

One thing I found aggrevating is that many of the web pages for dice sales seem so poorly written that its impossible for anyone to find dice they might be looking for. I guess some folks get so desperate for dice, they put up with crappy web pages. Myself, I wont, I have to be able to easily navigate a business site, or they don’t get my money.

I don’t use dice bags… I use storage boxes of plastic with dividers. Some of the other gamers I know use fishing lure boxes for their dice.

A special note: Gamescience made d6s back in the 1980s with opposite sides that didn’t add up to 7 !

Somewhere I saw an advert for a closeout on dice with compass directions on them… I think they were Koplow dice, but its not on Koplow’s pages. Not that Koplow accepts non-store orders, because they don’t. The directions ? NNW, NW, WNW, etc.

I looked at the really tiny 5mm d6s years ago, and then my eyes started hurting. I don’t own any.


I’ve purchased about 250 dice using the ‘bowl of dice’ from Chessex at a convention. I now have slightly over 800 dice. Some of the new ones I’ve never seen before. March 22, 2003

I got curious and started looking around various web pages for dice and dice types. I have d4, d6, d7, d8, d10, d tens/10, d12, d20, d30, and dice of various sizes.

For those of you looking for Casino dice, many of the casinos have gift shops you can order from online.

I scanned some of my dice. Click on the small picture for a larger view. A few only have one size view.


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Flue Wally 2011-03-26T00:54:13+00:00 2023-11-19T19:39:12+00:00 links page tag:dice.jimsmaps.net,2010-03-29:ee5f7b2816e212f2c584b7b3d889811e/a2d852c93f7961c81d50c66f1e5e933b For those interested in dice collections. Here are some links. Note that since I have a popup stopper program, I don’t know if any of these sites have popups or not. Links checked on Nov 23, 2011.

dice-play

The International Bone Rollers Guild

Arjan Verweij

Don Dueck’s Dice Collection his post in one of the rpg newsgroups is what got me interested in this search.

Polyhedral Dice dice design

Kevin Cook’s Dice A categorized pictoral tour of the Worlds Largest Dice Collection. Includes the types of material used for making dice … Methods to identify who made a die … Dice animations … How many different shapes of dice exist … And much more he has over 53,000 dice




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