The Diverse Dados Collection by Mult McMult

Mult McMult is someone who I’ve mentioned more than a few times on this blog. Mult is a lot of things but many may not know that he is considered an expert in dice. He spent several years on the professional Zonk circuit, his birthday is November 7th and he owns one of the largest private dice collections in the world. I’m sure he was very excited about the Diverse Dados Collection and I asked him to give us his expert opinion. The image below is Mults real life version of this collection and below that is his comparison of Zyngas to the real deal.

The Diverse Dados Collection by Mult McMult

The Diverse Dados collection shows 7 dice. When discussing dice there is a notational shorthand of dX, where X represents the number of sides. Standard six-sided dice are d6. The other things to know are that spots on dice are called "pips" and each side of a die is a "face". When looking at the Diverse Dados collection the 7 dice pictured in order in the collection are: d12, d4, d7, d6, d8, d10, d20 and 3 of them are wrong. One is completely unplayable (d4), one appears to be incorrect (d7) and one, while possible, is atypical of the standard die it is supposed to represent (d10).

d4 (Pyramid Fluke): First, I've never seen pips on a d4 of this shape. They are usually done with numbers, and occasionally for special production runs with symbols. The d4 shown is the most standard pyramid shape. On d4s of this shape three numbers are placed on each face of the die, either in the corners or in the middle of the side. The result is read by looking at the number that appears on the top corner, or along the bottom edge, of all three showing faces. Having a single number or representation on the face of a pyramid d4 is simple unplayable. Note: there are additional shapes possible for d4s that can have a single item per face, and there are technically pipped d4s which are really d8s with 1-4 pips per side repeated twice.

d7 (Lucky Seven): The d7 is an odd die, mostly because its shape is not geometric. It is really just a 3-dimensional pentagon and as such is inherently unbalanced. That said, they do exist. The larger flat sides of the pentagon have the numbers 6 and 7 while the remaining sides have pips that that extend over the top angle. The d7 shown has the number 4 clearly showing as the result . The next number to the right (with the green pips) also is a 4. The final 2 results barely shown on either side of the fours also show 2 pips on either side of the angle. Since the remaining possible 0 numbers of 1,2 or 3 would not have two pips on the same side of an angle, these are also wrong.

d10 (Ten Toss): While this could be correct, it is not typical of standard d10s. The most common d10s are numbered 1-10 (or 0-9) with the next most common type being a 10X multiple (10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-00). Often these two varieties of d10 are rolled together to create a 1-100 possibility. A roll of "8" on the 1-10 die and "10" on the 10X die would result in 18. Why the hell would you have an 18 (or a 13 for that matter) on a ten sided die? The image at the top of this post is

Here is an image of my real life version of the Dados collection. Since I don't have a gold d6 with what looks like diamonds, I used one with opal pips instead.